I'm your average bad-girl, always smarting off to teachers, cussing out anyone who messes with me, you know, the normal. But, I'm different, I have a secret that if exposed could very well mean the end of my life. No one knows it, expect those like me. I never thought it would be a problem, until we have to do a project, and my partner knows I'm not 'normal'. You'd expect that from a nerd though, to notice the small things we do that make us us. He keeps pushing me to open up to him, as he has me, but can i put my life in his hands?
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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