"Was I alive? Sure. Was I okay? Depends on how you define 'Okay.'" Aaliyah was born to dance whether she wanted to or not. She lived sheltered, in a world far way from realities. A car crash and an amputation shatters any plans of her of becoming a professional dancer as well as the bubble she hid in for many years, and she subjected to a world much more different than her own. On the outside she meets a sweet doctor, her father, her optimistic caregiver, and a teenage foreign exchange student named Ed, an enigma who would much rather spend his time serenading those in pain, including herself. A Novel

My name is Joie. I'm 17, and I reside at Burswood Center for the Mentally Ill. They tell me I have Schizoid Personality Disorder. They tell me I don't feel. I agree. I haven't felt what they call "emotions" since I was born.