



A leisurely pace and focus on everyday events school, sports, hangouts allows the characters' relationship to develop in a natural, relatable way. Nick, meanwhile, starts to examine how he feels about Charlie, and what that means about how he sees himself. Charlie, having recently realized that the boy he thought might be his boyfriend is just using him for casual make-out sessions, starts falling for Nick, though it's presumed that Nick is straight. When lanky, openly gay Charlie Spring, 14, is seated next to burly rugby lad Nick Nelson, 16, in a new "vertical class group" at their English all-boys school, they form a friendship that appears unlikely to those around them, quickly becoming a central part of each other's lives.
