Just because I look ordinary on the outside, doesn't mean I'm ordinary on the inside. Just because I look perfect on the outside, doesn't mean I can't be broken on the inside. Just because you can't see my scars, doesn't it mean they aren't there. Just because you can't see part of my identity, doesn't mean I'm a different person. It just means I'm complicated. You could say i live two different lives. One at school, one at home and I will under no circumstances mix the two together. My life at school, stays at school and vice versa. My friends never come to my house and my mom doesn't care enough to bother asking about school. My two worlds will never mix. No matter how hard it is, I will do anything to keep them separate. But at the end of the day, I can never decide which life is worse the one at school, or the one at home. At school I am completely fake, but at home, I can be myself, but no one, notices me or cares about me. Sometimes the only thing I want is a friend, a real friend. Someone who will accept me, someone I can be myself around, someone who will love me.

What if you could hear them? The thoughts they deigned not reasonable enough to say out loud, the things not suitable for even a giggly teenage gossip conversation. Would it be a blessing or a curse? Troye, the unlucky teenager bestowed with this 'gift', thinks of it as a curse, with good reason. Do you know how hard it is to keep a relationship with someone when you know exactly what they think of you? Impossible. It's impossible. Or at least that's what Troye thinks, considering he's given up on even trying to make it work. He's different, people shun different. People hate different. And it's better to go under the radar, to be nothing, than to be hated. Right? Tyler, on the other hand, has taken a different approach to a similar problem. No, he can't 'read minds', but he does have a part of himself he doesn't want a soul to know about. He's quarterback, every girl's dream guy, an academic mastermind, and he's also gay. He's seen how different kids get treated, hell, he's been the one to treat them that way before. Why on Earth would he ever wish that on himself? No, it's easier to hide, to be someone you're not, than to be hated. Right?