Hunter Jones is 16, male, gay, and depressed.
Hunter has been best friends with Parker Evans since they were 7. The two boys have taken in the world together, and can't imagine it any other way. Parker is unaware of Hunter's struggles, and Hunter doesn't know how much longer he can take the world he's been given. Both boys begin their own separate lives, strongly intertwined and braided together. One where it's all or nothing.
Hunter finds himself in a way he never thought possible. A way that to everyone else seems terrifying and twisted, but to Hunter, it gives control and clarity. Can he admit his struggles to himself and his best friend?
Parker has always been Hunter's co-pilot. His best friend, his rock, his security. Parker doesn't know the severity of his best friends situation, or even his situation at all. Parker finds new feelings, and a new story, all wrapped up in helping Hunter. Will Parker realize his feelings in time?
The 2 boys find themselves launched onto a new path neither one of them thought would happen those many years ago, when they first met. A path of heartache, sorrow, yearning, and an explosion of new feelings, memories, and beginnings. Will they survive their own stories together? Or will it end up as a tragic, storybook ending?
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Eighteen.
It's that time in your life that's nothing if not subjunctive: the mood you use when something might or might not have happened.
It's a time that's full of change. Leaving school. Going to University. Leaving home. Saying goodbye to past people. Welcoming new people. Everything becomes different all at once. Parts are hard. Parts are easy. All of it: unavoidable.
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Approaching the end of his final year of education, Andy Williams feels lost. Life feels directionless and he craves something that he's not sure even exists. Going through the motions of life with no passion left to give feels numbing until he meets a friend that shows him there's light at the end of the tunnel.