Bookshelves: Between The Lines

This is Juno, 17.

Still in high school, a junior, and is as miserable as ever.
Life at home is hard for him, he doesn't exactly have "loving" parents, and it doesn't help that he was outed just a year before. Things seem to be falling apart for him.

His best friend, Kyla, has moved; his crush, Max, barely seems to like him; the local asshole of school, Dustin, found out about Juno's crush on Max and outed him to the whole school, thus, his parents found out. Junior year has started and life just can't get any worse.

Until he meets Lindon.

They cross paths at the most unlikely of places, the library Juno has been going to for years to escape. He's never seen Lindon there, especially not as a worker. So when they meet, something immediately clicks.

Lindon, 21, still in college, working part-time jobs to get some money.
But with everything else going on, how can he possibly focus on a guy?
How can he even keep it secret?

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Collaboration story by RealCypher123 and Metamorphosis14.