Leila Pavlov is seventeen. You would think a seventeen year old would be having fun with friends and being a teenager but NOPE. By day, she's just another quiet high school student, but she goes home to her abusive, controlling boyfriend - the one who decides what she eats, where she goes, and who she speaks to. the one who gets drunk and high. the one that causes the bruises she has to hide. Freedom feels like a dream she can't afford to chase, because running might cost her everything. Asher Mar is eighteen, barely holding it together. With parents who are always gone, he's left to care for his little sister - He drowns himself in parties, alcohol, and sexual distractions. His world is a haze of guilt and chaos, and his sister has learned to pretend she doesn't notice. He's spiraling, but no one's there to stop him. Failing high school, the hockey team is the only thing keeping his grades barely passing. What will happen? Will Asher drink himself to death or find hope and reason Will Leila forever be trapped in this cage or will she find an escape? Read to find out!!! Trigger Warnings: Mentions of abuse, rape, suicide, and substance/drug use. Implied sexual content in a few scenes: ( closed door ) There will be mentions of sex but no smut