Ryan Offsteader had one major problem, but now that he's out of the closet and no one in his family or school actually cares, his problems are few. Life is a cycle of family, school, homework, Journalism Club, his friends, hanging out, and waiting for life to begin. It's a simple, boring life at times, but his problems are few.When Ms. Tabatabai, his English teacher and Journalism Club mentor, announces to the class that there will be a project where students pair up, Ryan and his best friend, Jules, assume they will work together. Ms. Tabatabai has other plans. Students will be paired off randomly. Ryan is left without a partner since his English class has an odd number of students. However, Ms. Tabatabai assures him that he will have a partner since a new student is enrolling. It's not an ideal situation for Ryan since he is used to working with Jules on every project, but it's not the worst.Until the new student shows up and Ryan realizes this isn't their first time...

All Jude wants to do is play Bandits online with his friends, write articles for his blog, get good grades, and hopefully, get accepted into a university with a decent journalism program. After all, his dream is to become a first-rate journalist, writing about the issues the young people of the world deal with every day. As far as he's concerned, he's crushing his goals.When Whitmer Central High School's principal decides he won't allow a student to start an LGBTQ+ Student Union, Jude's whole world is thrown for a loop.No one is standing up for what's right and everyone seems to accept that an LGBTQ+ club for the students of Whitmer isn't worth fighting for.One night, in a fury over what is going on at his high school, and how his principal has treated him, Jude writes a scathing, yet fair, rebuke of his school's decision. The next thing Jude knows, he's the subject of a national news article, he's gone viral on the internet, and he's become both a hero and a pariah...