((This is the edited, re-written version of a story I wrote back when I was in my early teens called "Emo Meets Emo: A Gay Love Story. I've changed some stuff around, updated, juggled, etc. The old version is posted under it's original name. Feel free to read it if you wish, but it's only three chapters long. The other chapters were deleted somehow. This is the story I will be working on instead of the old version. Please Enjoy. And don't be afraid to let me know what you think.))
Jason is an average youth of this generation of tattoos and piercings. He is tall and slender, his skin covered in ink. He's smart, sarcastic, and brutally honest, almost to a fault.
But at 17, almost 18, he's being sent away.
From London to upstate New York, where Jason has been enrolled in a private boarding school; Gold Bar Boarding School.
His parents were sending him away for something he didn't even have control over. If they wanted him gone, fine. He wasn't going back.
And he'd be damned if he was going to stay at this school. As soon as his 18th birthday came around he was going to get the hell out of there as fast as his feet could carry him, and nothing was going to stop him.
As least that is what he thought.
But what happens when he gets there and is reunited with people he thought he had forgotten; a guy who had tormented him, and a boy he had been in love with for years?
What he finds in this out-of-the-way boarding school is enough to make this school year one to remember.
With an old crush, an old enemy, a new rival, and a love triangle in the mix, Senior year at Gold Bar Boarding School For Troubled Boys is going to be an exciting time.
With secrets, passion, betrayal, friends, sorrow, and even some love, what's in store for one young man like Jason? What secrets will be revealed, which fires get fanned, which passions will burn hot, or smolder and go out... Which man will Jason choose?
There is no Planet B.
Actually, there is.
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Briar Black is not a good person, which has never bothered him, or anyone in 2399, at all. Until the government releases something huge:
Planet B. A second chance. And all 10 billion people want it, but only 3 billion can go.
So, the 2632 Exam: a year long test to see who deserves that second chance, and who does not. Briar thinks his shot is out the window, but when Theodore Maize-AKA a saint, AKA a definite candidate for Planet B-enters, Briar has a plan:
Befriend Theo, get his spot, and say goodbye to his life on Earth for good.
The plan comes with more than just meeting Theo, but meeting his world, and where it collides with Briar's: the ruthless reality of the rich, the pitying reality of the poor, the state of his dying world, the time ticking on all their fates, the mind of a bad person, the heart of a good person, and the rocky roads everyone takes to get there.
One shot, one guy, one year, two planets.
How hard could it be?
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[Content Warning: This story contains drug use, scenes of withdrawal, alcohol use, and violence.]