The School for Bad Boys: Bully in the Closet

At an all-boys reform school, same-sex attraction is grounds for immediate expulsion, so every student learns to keep certain feelings buried. Easton and Xander start out as enemies on campus, trading hostility and grudges rather than confidences. What begins as friction between them shifts into something neither is ready to name, and the rules around them make every glance a risk. The central conflict is how far each is willing to go once hidden feelings surface. Acting on them means possible expulsion; denying them means living a lie inside an institution built to root out exactly that. Caught between rivalry and desire, Easton and Xander must weigh what they want against everything the school threatens to take away.