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

But he’s got to finish this book for class tomorrow, so he has to read it now. It’s a good thing Timmy is here today. He’s failing the class miserably, he knows that. Even with Avery helping him, he’s going to bomb French.


And this book—he hates it. It’s a children’s book, so he thinks it should be easy, but it’s not. It’s in French. Who the hell would write a kid’s book in French? Kids can’t read English, let alone French. Shit, he’s sixteen, a far cry from a child, and he can’t read French. The only thing he knows about this story is what he remembers from the cartoon that used to come on Nickelodeon when he was little. Why they ever translated the story into French is beyond him.


Chapter 42