NW

At their modern-day high school, Rex is the arrogant German Shepherd jock who rules the campus, while Barnaby is the shy white lion who practically lives inside 4XL hoodies to hide his god-like, heavily muscled physique. When they are paired up for a biology project, Rex expects to coast by and let the quiet nerd do all the work—until a late-night text exchange goes disastrously wrong. Instead of his homework notes, Barnaby accidentally sends Rex a shirtless, post-workout mirror selfie. That single photo instantly shatters Rex's straight, untouchable worldview, flipping the school's power dynamic on its head as the newly flustered jock realizes he is entirely at the mercy of the quiet nerd he thought he had figured out.