He's just a boy. She's just a girl. Both in their third year of high school, both bitten by the metaphorical love bug. She's in love with him, and he's in love...with someone else. She wants to be with him, and there's only one man in the world who knows how to make that happen. All she has to do play a game of Heartbreak: grab the assigned object, kill the assigned target, and be closer to your reward. This is Heartbreak, and in this game it's either your heart beats or your heart breaks.

Teddy cannot accept that he has killed his wife and refuses to accept his true identity: Andrew Laeddis. If he does not show signs of improvement, he will be lobotomized. This form of lobotomy has been known to cause a complete disconnection of the emotion and pain receptors in the brain, so if it is performed, Teddy will become a ghost in the shell of a human body.