Chipton U Jackals running back Tieran Barba meets artistic punk Hartley Bates for the first time at a drunken frat party the start of Fall semester. At least, for the first time in this life. But so what? Their strange connection was just a fluke. It's not like they'll find themselves hung up on it for the rest of the semester, obsessing over what this strange pull towards one another is, questioning their sanity, and weathering haunting visions of some bygone era to which their souls are inextricably tied. ...Right?