after being taken out of his abusive home, alex is sent to a group home for boys, where he soon learns the harshness of reality as backstories and tragic pasts are revealed. as he gets closer to everyone, he finds himself falling for one boy in particular, but jack is completely against any type of relationship. alex makes it his goal to get jack to open his heart up to love again, but will he be able to help Jack overcome the horrors of his past while trying to run from his own? basically everyone is gay and mentally ill and it's a mixture of sadness and the most adorable moments between all these couples

My heart pulsated through my chest and I didn't think I could hold on for much longer. The frightening, terrorising feeling of his fingers slipping through mine was causing the arm that was gripping to the edge of the cliff to shake. "Hold on, Harry! I've got you, I swear! Please, just hold on!" my voice held a shrill of terror to it and my eyes were filling with tears; tears of pain, frustration and sheer horror. Harry moved his gaze from our slipping fingers to my eyes. "It's okay, Ethan. Let go. You can't save me; not this time." I hated how calm his tone was. I hated how defeated he sounded. He had never given up - we always held hope for one another! We never gave up. "Don't you say that to me! Don't you fucking say that to me!" I roared, a small sob escaping my lips. Harry just smiled sadly, his muscular, beautiful body swaying in the harsh wind. The fall was so big; he would surely die of a heart attack before he hit the ground. I prayed to God he would. No. I was breaking my own rule; I would not give up on him. Either both of us lived or neither of us would. My life would be over the second his ended, anyway.