Young Hayely is driven to insanity, really. She is sickened with a curse of a parasite, and no one seems to believe her. Nobody can seem to locate the source of the parasite. Her family and friends hardly see her the same as this begins to change her from the inside out. After doctors and speaking with a shrink, it still only is the new boy in town that can help her keep her head together. It seems he has more to do with her "disease" than anything, and is not quite the savior he appeared to portray.

It was pity that first made Dannie speak to him. She had known Ryan since she was a kid, but he had always been the popular Golden Boy, and she had always been the tomboy that didn’t mind not having any friends. It was odd, she had thought, that all the popular kids who had once kissed the ground he walked on, didn’t so much spared him a glance anymore, and it was this that made her sit with him that one faithful day and begin something that would only end up causing her pain.