Alessia was nineteen when her life truly began, when she would experience adventures like inhaling a breath: they would become part of her. She would crave them. All she ever yearned for was experience in the outside world.
Empty, and lonesome is what she was. She had never ventured any further than one hundred and twenty miles from her small apartment in the unknown, no farther then the strictly set perimeter of her tiny town of Burrlock. She was petrified by the idea of daring to go beyond. But the idea was adhered to her heart and she was reminded of it every time she peeked out her big window.
She couldn't just hurry towards the door and sprint for adventure. Not alone at least. She could do it, if she had just the right person to accompany her, to care for her and foster the loneliness and emptiness that seemed to characterize her being, the studio apartment, the neighborhood, the college, everything. Her newly discovered partner in crime was . . . unlikely, and . . . coincidental?All Rights Reserved