Marrissa had always sat to the side in all the drama in school. She gained and lost friends, but never a boyfriend and only one crush, Quincy. She never acted on her feelings for all seven years of crushing, but stayed out of the way. Finally, four years after he falls in love, she gets her wish. Quincy and his girlfriend break up and she somehow gets caught up in the whirlwind of a nasty breakup, and gets closer and closer to him, but she never thought that safety would come at such a price.

Every Tuesday during football practice, sixteen year old Sem Bolton finds himself stealing glances at the gorgeous college boy jogging down the path next to the fields. He was his dirty little secret. His guilty pleasure. His unobtainable fantasy: safe and distant on the other side of the chainlink fence. Then, through a series of unpleasant events including being forced on a camping trip, it turns out his unobtainable fantasy is not so unobtainable after all. Not only is gorgeous college boy gay as well, he also wants to date Sem. Now, Sem was never one to play it safe. But outing himself was in a whole different league than testing his mother's patience or taking hits in the boxing ring. Was he really ready to date a guy, all consequences included? As if internal struggles weren't enough, count on girls, friends, and an estranged brother, to complicate stuff even further. Photo on the cover by: https://unsplash.com/@nickkarvounis