Fics like candy canes and mistletoe

A boy in Hamlet house had thought it would be funny to write the word MISTLETOE on strips of paper in sharpie, and blu-tack them to the ceiling above each form room desk. Since then, the pieces of paper had been falling down one by one, courtesy of the barely adhesive blu-tack. They should have been easy enough for Charlie to ignore—he’d witnessed his fair share of festive abominations. But the catch was this: whoever still had mistletoe above their heads at the end of term had to kiss their desk partner. To the rest of the boys, it was just a stupid game. Lads being lads, all that bullshit. To Charlie, it was doing all sorts of things to his sorry gay heart. Charlie is fed up with Truham’s Christmas festivities. First there’s the mistletoe game, which feels too gay to be true, and is no doubt setting him up for disappointment. And then there’s the Truham-Higgs Candy Cane Exchange, which is a brutal yearly reminder of how single he is. But when he receives a candy cane from a secret admirer, all of that changes...

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