At Blackwood Academy, everyone's watching them. They just don't know what they're really seeing. On the surface, Jude Atwood and Cole Mercer look like a classic duo. Same classes, same team, always seen together in the halls. People at Blackwood throw around the word bromance because it's easier than admitting they can't figure the two of them out. But they're not best friends - not really. Jude doesn't pour his secrets into Cole. Cole doesn't come to Jude when the weight of his father's expectations crushes him. What ties them together isn't easy intimacy, it's routine and an invisible current neither of them knows how to name. Jude clings to Cole because he's the closest thing to steady in a world that feels hollow. Cole keeps Jude close because the thought of letting him drift feels unbearable - and terrifying. Their bond is tight, but brittle. More a coiled spring than a safe anchor, full of unspoken looks and suppressed words. To everyone else, they're best friends. To themselves, they're something far more complicated.
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