Hard Knocks, Dog Days & Puppy Love

I gazed at the girl l I’d been in love with for the last 10 years and said, ‘Have you gained weight?’
Shoot me now.

Tobias E. Anderson has graduated with a PHD. from the school of Hard Knocks. He's seen life at its very worse and that dark past seems to be plastered on the inside of,his eyelids. Now? He lives in the Big Apple; even though as a little kid the only big apple he knew of grew wild in the woods. YeahThat's right, that sexy junior captain of the baseball team and champion runner is a country boy at heart. So, trading in his urban jungle for a small town down south for a few dog days should be fine, right? If only. A dark, painful past stems from that small town that he’d much rather lay to rest. The only good thing that burns through the darkness is those striking cyan eyes beneath an icy blonde mop and the name ‘Val’.
All he knows is: 1) somewhere in this Small country town there is a cyan eyed girl with a matching murky past.
2) There will be puppy love.