((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?
A Thin Line Between Love & Hate (Love Conquers All series) ORIGINAL VERSION
82 parts Complete Mature
82 parts
Complete
Mature
NOTE: This is the ORIGINAL version. The revised version, which includes multiple added scenes and extended storylines, will be published on amazon as two separate books (A Thin Line Between Love & Hate / A Short Distance Between Heaven & Hell). The revised versions may or may not be uploaded onto wattpad, I haven't yet decided if I will be doing that.
**The extremist group in this story is based on the Westboro Baptist Church located in Topeka, Kansas.
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Josh Waylon is a prisoner in his own home, his own mind. Part of an extreme religious group who has targeted homosexuals, Josh is forced to live the hate that the leader--his father--has poisoned them with. But Josh has a secret of his own, one which would bring him extreme pain and punishment within the group and alienate him from everyone he knows.
When the group moves to a new town, a community which is predominantly LGBTQ, and Josh starts at the new school, he feels like a sheep amidst wolves as the many gay kids within the school know exactly who he is and what his family does. Josh feels no security with his two older brothers, who expect him to suck it up and accept the persecution as a servant of God.
Brandon Nichols immediately detects the difference between Josh and his brothers, seeing deeper within the young man and the truth he is hiding, desperate not to be found out. Brandon believes his calling is to help bridge the gap between the gays and Christians in his school, but he has his work cut out for him with Josh Waylon and the extremist group that has him locked down--emotionally, spiritually...and sexually.