3 Chapter 3

The word hereshould be hear, but Jonah doesn’t correct the mistake via a returned text. He knows Ricky isn’t the brightest LED bulb in the pack, but he’s famous and gorgeous and rich by Channing standards. Ricky might be one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, playing for a team in Florida, but he’s not a brain surgeon. He’s big, bulky, and can pass as Tim Tebow’s twin, and he’s surely not the same boy Jonah blew in Mr. Grandy’s biology lab at Channing High School during his eleventh year there. Ricky’s an adult now, supposedly mature. Honestly, Ricky’s beautiful and brawny and ballsy and blatant. And he likes Jonah a little too much; this is what Jonah has learned in the past few months through the texts he receives from Ricky; a huge surprise for him…but not really.