bare: a novel

Peter and Jason are best friends and roommates in a Catholic boarding school. They are also secret boyfriends trying to navigate through a social culture that is rife with judgement and religious condemnation. To be sure, other students have their own problems: Zack is a drug dealer, Nadia has a weight problem, Ivy has a reputation as the school slut, and Matt can never seem to have anything go his way; but Peter and Jason are especially voiceless. Peter becomes increasingly annoyed about Jason's growing refusal to publicly acknowledge their love. And as senior year draws to a close, The two boys find their carefully crafted world start to unravel before their eyes; leaving them bare for all the world to see.

A pair of star-cross'd lovers....
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows....
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.