However, when he meets an outspoken student from the nearby all-female academy, he thinks he can finally dampen the sparks Rafe ignites. Earlier in the year he experienced an intense, romantic connection with his best friend, Rafe, that still haunts him. He's also struggling between what he feels versus what he yearns to feel. (Like his teammates, Ben is white unlike them, he’s not “exceedingly wealthy.”) He's a huge history buff he's kind. He’s also been told by the headmaster that he’s next in line to win the school’s coveted scholarship-awarded to only one Natick student annually. Seventeen-year-old, New Hampshire–farm–raised, proud Czech-American Ben Carver has just been elected the captain of posh, private Natick School’s famed baseball team in his junior year.
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