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    School for Troubled Boys
    School for Troubled Boys
    School for Troubled Boys
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    School for Troubled Boys

    By Lina Langley

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    No teen wants to end up at Freemount residential school, a place that advertises itself as a school for troubled boys. Quinn has found himself surrounded by boys with problems that feel much bigger than his own.

    But regardless of how hard he has worked toward earning his release, it doesn't feel that much closer than when he first got admitted, and there's a part of him that infinitely prefers the residential school to the environment he came from.

    So maybe he isn't working as hard as he could to get out. Maybe he should—he probably should—be working a little harder toward earning his freedom. 

    And then there's David.

    Other-worldly David, his new dormmate, who seems to pay little attention to everything going on around him.

    Beautiful David, the boy who his best friend seems to be head-over-heels for.

    The only boy who can make his best friend happy.

    He can't just take that away from him. Not even if David would make Quinn happy. Right?

    Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of vomiting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHalf Past Three
    Release dateAug 14, 2018
    ISBN9781386459453
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      No teen wants to end up at Freemount residential school, a place that advertises itself as a school for troubled boys. Quinn has found himself surrounded by boys with problems that feel much bigger than his own.

      But regardless of how hard he has worked toward earning his release, it doesn’t feel that much closer than when he first got admitted, and there’s a part of him that infinitely prefers the residential school to the environment he came from.

      So maybe he isn’t working as hard as he could to get out. Maybe he should—he probably should—be working a little harder toward earning his freedom. 

      And then there’s David.

      Other-worldly David, his new dormmate, who seems to pay little attention to everything going on around him.

      Beautiful David, the boy who his best friend seems to be head-over-heels for.

      The only boy who can make his best friend happy.

      He can’t just take that away from him. Not even if David would make Quinn happy. Right?

      Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of vomiting.

      CHAPTER ONE

      It had been a couple of weeks since I had met my new roommate and he had barely said a thing to me. He was bottom bunk, I was top bunk, and he stayed there most of the time, doing something on a sketchbook which he always seemed to close immediately as soon as he heard footsteps coming toward the room.

      I remembered the first time I had seen him. He had walked into our room, escorted by one of the guards—technically, we were supposed to call them staff, but we all called them guards—and he hadn’t even met my gaze when he had been told he would be sharing the room with me.

      I barely looked at him then. Tall, lanky, with dyed reddish blond hair that went down to the nape of his neck and cat-eye glasses, he looked more like a hipster than a troubled boy. I couldn’t see any tattoos on him, at least not from where I was sitting.

      You’ll get your stuff tomorrow, the guard told him. We just have to inspect it first.

      My new roommate didn’t say a thing. He just stared at the guard, but there was nothing threatening about the way he was looking at the man in white scrubs. It was with more awe than anger or defiance. It seemed to confuse the guard, because he turned around and walked out of the room, saying nothing else.

      Hi, I said, putting down my book. The least I could do was be polite to the kid. After all, he was going to have to put up with living in this hell hole with me for at least another six months. I’m Quinn.

      He craned his neck to look up at me. David, he said, continuing to look at me with those wide eyes. He didn’t seem scared, not exactly, but I didn’t know the guy, and in any case, if he wasn’t scared, he was an idiot.

      Bottom bunk is yours, I said after a little while. And, just a head’s up, the bed gets super squeaky.

      Right, he said flatly. I had no idea if he understood what I was getting at, but he got on the bunk under me and didn’t make another peep for the rest of the night.

      That was the extent of conversation I’d had with him. It didn’t matter how many times I had explained it to my best friend, Alix seemed to completely ignore the fact that David was as interesting as a rock and had been pushing for more and more information.

      This was, once again, one of those conversations. We were out in the yard, weeding

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