Other students at Moordale involve Eric Effiong, Otis' greatest close friend and the gay son of Ghanaian-Nigerian immigrants Maeve Wiley, a rebellious teen whose independence is overshadowed by her troubled past Adam Groff, the headmaster's son who develops a bullying character out of his possess self-loathing Jackson Marchetti, the head boy struggling to fulfill the high anticipations established for him Ruby Matthews, Anwar Bakshi and Olivia.