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Till is a gentle, emotionally grounded boy who has always struggled with loneliness and human connection. Isolated at school and mocked as «Creepy Till», he retreats into solitude. He never learned how to make friends, every interaction he had was awkward, every attempt to connect clumsy. Though he has learned to endure judgment, attention terrifies him, and what haunts him even more are the recurring nightmares that have followed him since middle school, each ending with the death of a boy whose eyes he can never forget.
When a new student joins his class, Till is shaken to recognize those same eyes. Ivan enters his life like a storm. Raised in a home where love and violence were indistinguishable, he has grown up with a warped sense of intimacy. He is both drawn to and wounded by Till’s quiet distance, mistaking it for rejection and answering it with cruelty. What begins as hostility slowly reveals something deeper: a desperate need to be seen, to be loved, and to heal. This is a story about love distorted by pain, about two boys trying to bound from broken pieces. Through Till’s quiet empathy, Ivan begins to understand that hatred and violence are not love, and that love does not have to hurt to be real.
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“And who would I be dating? You?”
“Sure. If that gets them to leave you the fuck alone.”
Ivan just needed some help in dealing with his relentless underclassmen who wants him so bad and Till just so happens to have a light bulb moment.
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Determined to win a stupid bet by proving that Ivan doesn’t like him like that, Till embarks on a mission to repel Ivan in every way possible.
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