Everyone has a song that captures who they are. No one but Leila Gonzalez can hear them. Melodies and tunes fill her head everywhere she goes, and all she wants is to replicate them in her songwriting. There's just one problem: she sucks at songwriting. Lyrics are okay, but everything else? She'd rather hit her head with her guitar. That is why her guitar lessons are sacred to her. But when her old guitar teacher quits unexpectedly, she has no option but to sit through lessons with the Neil Ferrer, lead guitarist of local band The Heights with about a million bad rumors to his name. And what's worst of all, Leila can't hear his song.

"Distracting myself is the only way I can survive." Sierra Jenkins didn't think she'd escape the darkness unharmed, but there she was walking into The Gain trying to live a normal life. Just when she thinks everything is too good to be true, she's slapped in the face with an increase in her rent that plummets her back into the depths of darkness. Working double shifts, pulling all-nighters, and working out to escape, she loses herself trying to make ends meet. Her body takes hit after hit as she pushes her limits, but she masks it all with a deceiving smile. But Kyle sees right through it. He knows what it's like to suffer in silence and he doesn't want to see the only trainee that sticks around slowly deteriorate herself. Anxiety-ridden, emotional, and draining, the real life struggle of a college student trying to survive. ******* Photo by: Jaspeorology on Pexels Edited by: me