In the Closet (boy x boy)
Billy Miller is not gay. He's not even sure he's anything at all because he doesn't like people. But that's alright. His parents, his fish and his clingy neighbor he can't quite get rid of since middle school are enough for him. For now.
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Billy is a Junior in high school and he likes to think he's pretty cool. He enjoys making lists and he adores animals. He doesn't bother people and people don't bother him back, at least that's what he would expect. Until, as he hides in a closet at a party he was forcefully dragged in, he witnesses two boys french-kissing in there. One of them is Tavish McCloud. The other, it doesn't matter.
Billy's mind spins and spins. Tavish is a perplexing hot mess that Billy doesn't know much about. His only choice is to make a list.
- He knows his name is pronounced as Thomas.
- He knows he's tall and handsome.
- He knows he's Scottish.
- He knows he's a senior with two grade retentions.
- He knows he partakes in a crazy amount of lifting competitions.
- He knows he has won a crazy amount of lifting competitions as well.
- He knows he might enter the Olympics in a few years; everyone has been talking about it at school.
- He knows he's hotheaded; everyone talks about it too, but behind closed doors.
- He knows he has fucking nice hands.
And, what he doesn't know yet but he's about to learn soon, Tavish can be annoying as fuck when he makes pestering you his life mission.
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Somebody's in the closet.
Somebody hasn't even had the courage nor the will to step into the closet.
That makes for a pretty neat love story.
