Anya Rivers is an enigma. She's a walking contradiction, a mystery to everybody that knows her, a mystifying puzzle dying to be decoded. She's everybody's friend, but nobody really knows her for who she is.
Hudson Reese is a quiet, reflective computer geek who also happens to be an astounding volleyball player, and at the same time is in love with Anya since grade 6. He knows she'd never feel the same so he keeps his distance, but being one of her closest friends doesn't help.
Bright Hayashi is your cliché playboy dude, a quarterback on the school football team, life of the parties he goes to, witty and drop-dead gorgeous. He's a heartthrob, but he's never dated anyone, because he has his eyes set on that one girl. The best friend of his close friend Harper, Anya.
Harper Reese has been Anya's best friend from kindergarten to now, her ride-or-die. She has issues of her own, and when her brother confesses to being in love with Anya, she's torn between loyalty to her best friend and well-kept feelings of her own.
A certain whirlwind of a night throws all four of them into a tumultuous war of feelings and confrontations, and every thing they had been hiding from each other comes to surface. Will they be able to sort it all out and be able to move on with their hectic lives as before, or will this affect their relationships in ways they never would have expected?
Join Anya and her friends on her Pursuit of what really matters.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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