Alleyways, a tattoo parlor and a strip club. Who would think such random places would tie together so perfectly? This is the story of a young women who finds who she truly is, and just how much a stranger in an alleyway can make everything change. When 19 year old Vivienne meets a cigarette sharing stranger in an alleyway 2 years prior, she would have never thought she'd ever see that familiar face again. But when she's dragged into a strip club by her best friend, it seems strangers can never stay strangers for long. And after one slight mistake, it seems he'd never be a stranger again. But the main question that wouldn't leave her mind was if she was the stranger to herself this whole time? ____ When Zayn had met her for the first time, he thought of her as a shield girl who would get torn down in life. And he wasn't entirely wrong, but when her timid presents becomes one he had no choice but to deal with, but once she begins to break out of her shell he couldn't help but question who put her in it to begin with. It seemed it all went deeper for the both of them, yet the deepest part lied right in front of them. One reckless drunk girl with a cigarette between her lips that she swore she quit completely torn down all they thought they knew. I guess that wasn't the only addiction they had both sparked up that day.