Doubting 8 | Boys of Tommen
19 parts Ongoing MatureRowan's world is one of abandonment, violence, and survival. Neglected by her mother and exposed to predators through her father's criminal world, Rowan learns quickly that love is conditional and danger is constant. Her first day of school brings a glimmer of hope; until she's seated next to AJ, the boy who already decided she's bad news.
As school days pass and secrets build, AJ becomes Rowan's fiercest bully, channeling the helplessness he feels at home into cruelty toward the one girl who never fights back. But when one cruel moment goes too far, AJ is forced to face the truth behind Rowan's silence, and the trauma that's hiding in plain sight.
Over the years, as they grow older, AJ and Rowan are forced to confront the pain that shaped them, the families that failed them, and the truths they've buried to survive. Doubting 8 is a story of trauma and tenderness, of broken homes and buried hope, and ultimately, of two kids who slowly learn that sometimes the people we're taught to hate, are the only ones who truly understand us.