With a mother who abandoned her at age seven. Riley Rockwell is forced to be dependent on her seventeen year old sister for survival.
As years passed, Riley's sister, Raelyn, focused all her time into providing for herself and her sister, becoming more of a mother figure to Riley.
When a new art teacher starts at Belleville Heights, he almost immediately takes an interest in Riley.
Riley takes no interest in the new art teacher, but her sister does.
(I wasn't sure how to word this, so I will sum it up. Riley is the character we will be following. Gerard is an obsessive art teacher who wants Riley. Riley's sister likes Gerard, And they start dating. Basically, my sisters obsessive boyfriend who is also my teacher. Hope that kinda clears it up.)
(WARNING: THIS BOOK WILL CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING: STALKING, OBSESSION, ABUSE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, RAPE, VERBAL ASSAULT, HARASSMENT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED)
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Gerard Way has spent his life building walls no one can climb. Controlled, analytical, impossible to read-he believes emotions are liabilities and people are unpredictable variables best kept at a distance.
Frank Iero feels everything too much and talks too fast. He's chaos wrapped in vintage band tees and eye rolls, allergic to vulnerability and authority in equal measure. If feelings were currency, he'd be bankrupt and overdrawn at the same time.
They are paired on the first day.
Their assignment?
Track each other's behavioral patterns. Conduct vulnerability interviews. Complete weekly exercises designed to "facilitate emotional attunement."
There are no tests-the relationship is the test.
What begins as mutual sabotage becomes accidental honesty.
Forced proximity turns into late-night conversations no one else has ever earned.
In this class, you don't just study connection-
you have to choose it.