SecretAngelShot
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Jake's final year of school was supposed to be simple. Keep his grades up, keep his head down, and definitely keep his stupid, stubborn crush on Ruairi under control.
Ruairi - the boy with the easy grin, the broad shoulders, and the Christian family who expected perfection. The boy who never once looked Jake's way... until suddenly, this year, he did.
For the first time, Ruairi speaks to him. Laughs with him. Sits too close at lunch. Asks to borrow pens he absolutely doesn't need. Every moment feels like a signal, but every signal feels like it could be a lie. Ruairi's warm one day and distant the next, and Jake is left chasing shadows of what might be something more.
But school ends without answers. Without confessions. Without anything except a tangle of feelings Jake can't shake.
Years later, they meet again - older, different, and no longer protected by school corridors and teenage excuses. Ruairi's family still wouldn't approve. Jake still isn't sure what he's walking into. But the spark between them? It never died.
Now they have a chance to finally face everything they left unsaid... if they're brave enough to take it.
A story about unfinished longing, mixed signals that never faded, and two boys who find each other again when the timing is finally right - even if the world around them still isn't.
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content warning:
this novel contains strong language, moderate violence, and the use of uncensored homophobic slurs. reader discretion is advised.