All things happen for a reason, don't they? When Awsten found out his second-semester elective was woodshop, he wholeheartedly disagreed with that statement. Surely being put into woodshop was simply a meaningless annoyance. He was wrong. If his schedule had said something different, he'd never have dropped the class and applied to be a teacher's aide, and he'd never have bothered to talk to Geoff Wigington, and he'd definitely never have discovered the unlikely similarity between them.

Journal entries from Awsten Knight starting from when he moves in with his dad. -short chapters

it was like i was transparent. i was screaming and yelling but nobody heard me. until him. "i can hear you." he said softly.

He was sitting next to me. By "he" I mean the bane of my existence- why everything's gone to shit. The awkward tension was piling up between us, and I used the last of my willpower to scoot over to the other side of the couch, farther from him. He shot a quick glance towards my direction, but quickly turned back to avoid being noticed. Except I noticed, because I could never not notice the tiny details about him. Because I love him. And he doesn't love me. ©floralphantom 2017

sad boy: I'm a 14 year old girl STINKY FRIEND: explain sad boy: full of angst, loves Fall Out Boy, dyes hair religiously, has a crush on a boy in a band STINKY FRIEND: true

"He had everything, but felt nothing. He had nothing, but felt everything." geoff is in a famous band. awsten is from a small town in the middle of nowhere. they couldn't be more different. maybe that's for the best.