Sixteen year old Jacob Smithson has quite a temper. He’s picked on by other kids because he likes boys, and recent fighting has kicked him out of public school. As a last resort, his parents have placed him in the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Boarding School for Boys.<br><br>It’s at his first mass at St. Thomas where he sees Avery Dendritch, a senior who serves as altar boy during the service. When they meet, the attraction between them is hard to deny. The two become fast friends, and as the school year progresses, their friendship deepens into something more. For the first time, Jacob has found a place where he belongs ... and someone with whom he’s falling in love.<br><br>But the other students gossip about their growing relationship, and while Avery can ignore them, Jacob cannot. As the rumors and slurs start up again, can he curb his temper, or will his penchant for fighting get him expelled from St. Thomas, as well?

Without Sin

After the phone call, he gets sent home. That’s the way it’s always worked at public school. Only this time, he doesn’t want to go home. He’s finally found a boy he likes, a boy who likes him back. Someone who’s more than just groping hands in the back of a movie theater, a quick handjob in the bathroom between classes, a blowjob in the woods behind his house. Once or twice and Jacob never saw those boys again. It was always someone different, someone who heard Jacob liked to do thatand was a little curious about it, and because he doeslike to do it, he did. But he hasn’t in a while now. Most of the kids back home are scared of him. He gets into too much trouble.


Chapter 18