Who Is Your Boys of Tommen Book Boyfriend?

Imagine you’ve got ten minutes before the last bus and a schoolbag that barely zips because you brought a paperback you swore you’d finish at lunch. Someone from the Tommen crowd spots you at the stop. What makes you hope he’ll sit beside you? Maybe he has a story so ridiculous you’re still laughing when the bus turns into your street. Maybe he remembers that you like the window seat and moves his bag before you have to ask. The details that get you in real life are usually the same ones that make you fold down a page.

Chloe Walsh’s Boys of Tommen books make room for both kinds of crush. Johnny Kavanagh has the focus you’d expect from someone who spends so much time on a rugby pitch, and there’s something sweet about seeing where else he puts that attention. Joey Lynch has the sort of dry comeback that makes an ordinary conversation worth replaying later. Gibsie can get an entire table laughing, which makes a rare quiet moment with him feel especially personal. Hughie has a steady presence that makes a bus ride feel like time worth keeping, while Patrick Feely might be your pick if you tend to notice the person listening at the edge of a loud group.

So think about how you’d spend an afternoon in Ballylaggin if you could write the chapter yourself. There’s a match letting out, a bus shelter that only keeps half the rain off, and a group of friends who will absolutely notice if two people arrive together. You get to decide which little moments are worth making time for. Maybe you’d share chips by the pitch even if the wind kept blowing the paper open, or maybe you’d take the long walk home because you finally got to finish a conversation that started three hours ago.

Some of these choices come down to what feels good on a busy day. Would you want someone to handle the practical stuff, ask how you’re doing, or come up with a joke so bad you have to laugh? Others are about what you’d remember later, like a spare scarf that never quite makes it back to its owner or a photograph you’d keep even though everyone in it is blurry. Pick whichever answers sound like the chapter you’d reread, and see who gets the seat beside you.