emma ito would rather forget her childhood years ever happened in the same way the rest the world seemed to. the six inseparable children turned to six strangers in the halls who no one ever assumed were friends. then, ray shows up, crying about a missing person and begging for help and emma can feel the buried past bubble through her body, exploding in a single promise. "ill help you find her." with an inability to break a promise and the every approaching scare of graduating high school, the strangers find themselves ending their school years they started them. together.

𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 emma always finds a way to see the light in the dark. norman finds it hard to see anything bright despite how everything shines around him. when they meet in the middle because of emmas new apprenticeship in his house, their very world seems to shift.