She, trapped in an abusive relationship. He, desperate to save her. She, blinded by a sick kind of love. He, dying to take her away from all the pain. She, who's got to believe she deserves that life. He, who only wants her to be happy.

| in which a boy c r e e p s. |

"To live is to be haunted"

"We often confuse what we wish for with what is." ~ Neil Gaiman

RILEY. She has always been her class' 'The Quiet One'; the girl who likes to read alone in the abandoned corner of the school and who never makes as many friends as an average teenage girl would. But Riley is where she belongs. She learned to be content of where she is and to be satisfied with what she has. ADRIAN. He is happy too. Or at least that is how he looks to most people. He always smiles, brings laughter to everyone he knows, is the best student a school could ever wish for and appears to have a very fun-filled, perfect life. But Adrian's smile is masking something he hates about himself; something he struggles to forget everyday. When Adrian and Riley's paths cross, a special bond forms in between the two as they create their own meaning of first love. But with Adrian's inner struggle screaming inside of him, will this bond help them get to where they want to be or act as a barrier that Adrian has to take down without Riley?

"We yearned to feel the pain of heart break because that's what made us feel ourselves, happiness was too fake and hate was too hard. Pain was so damn easy, having a horrid partnership with time on the deal to torture us." Dan has been in love with his best friend, Scarlet, since the day he laid eyes on her in kindergarten, but it seemed that she never felt the same way. Years after of living with the fact that Scarlet was a married women now and that she'd never love him, he receives a letter from her. The letter. Some loves just don't die. #80 on What's Hot List