Lillie Ruga has spent all 13 years of her life in Los Angeles. She has attended the same school and lived in the same area. But, that all unexpectedly changes when her parents suddenly die and she is left orphaned. Lillie goes to live at a foster home with a dozen other children living in horrendous conditions.
School is even worse after the death of her parents. With new ammo to hurt her this school year, it becomes worse than it has ever been before. She comes home every day with at least one more bruise and another chunk of her self esteem gone. After a particularly brutal beating, she decides she's going to do it. She is going to take try to take her life.
Brendon and his band has now become the next My Chemical Romance, dead. And all because of Brendon. After three years of what caused him to shatter and break, taking Panic! With him, he is still struggling just to get by. Drugs and alcohol has become his new best friends as he pushes all of his real ones away, of course without his therapist knowing.
He is simply stuck in the past, trying to forget the pain, the suffering, but it is eating him away inside giving no reason to live. All of this changes night, and all because of a bridge and a broken little girl.
***IF YOU GET EASILY TRIGGERED, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND READING***