The Butterfly Project

In The Butterfly Project, fifteen year old, Julia tries to take her life at her father’s wedding. She doesn’t succeed, and is sent to the psychiatric ward for healing. While there, she makes friends, enemies, brother’s, and sisters. Julia learns the purpose for being alive, as well how to cope with her problems. Her new family anxiously awaits the return of her arrival, hoping she will be a new girl, happy and cured. Day by day, her boyfriend, and best friend, Liam, of three years, writes her letters. He gives them to the main counselor, knowing that what wrote, will make Julia want to get better. Though, through Julia’s eyes, the only thing that can make her better is death. If she doesn’t tell a soul her secret, she could be dead within months, unplanned by anyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Julia, shy and self-conscious, has been dating the some boy since she was twelve. Two years ago, at the age of thirteen, she had been gang raped, and received the AIDS virus. Julia refuses to tell anyone about the horrible night due to humiliation and shame. She fears that Her father’s trust will never be the same, for it may be her fault. She fears people will say she is liar, and her boyfriend says she cheated. Day by day, she gets worse. She planned the day to kill herself, before her rapist kills her from the disease. To get let out of the psychiatric ward, and reactive the help and treatment she needs, her therapist, father, and eventually boyfriend, must know. She needs to spill the secret. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Julia hasn’t slept with her boyfriend Liam yet. At the young age of fifteen, the couple cares for each other, and wants the relationship to last, and move along at a young age, so they can have their lives together. Fearful Liam might contract the AIDs virus, she tries avoiding Liam in that route. Suspicious Liam develops a new perspective about Julia, and c