"This story is about the boy I loved. This is about his suffering. This is about my suffering. All of it due to one thing. Affluenza." TW : Key themes of suicide. Sebastian Grey. Golden boy, trust fund baby, and Braylen Adams' mortal enemy. Braylen thought he knew Sebastian. After all, the two of them had been at war with each other since he'd moved to Malibu. He knew what made him tick, what buttons to push, how to get him completely upset. But when Braylen finds Sebastian preparing to take his own life, he realizes he knew nothing at all. About Sebastian and about himself.