Contrition (frerard)

*like if You've Got Mail was emo, gay, and a little bit messed up

It followed Frank in the night like a screaming ghost -that distant, dreadful thing - but he can't quite remember what it was, only that it happened sometime last year, during the fall of '03.

However, when Frank arrives for his freshman year at St. John's College in Maryland, he can no longer ignore it. Whatever he forgot is still with him, pestering, eating away at his conscience.

In the sleepless hours between classes, Frank confides in an anonymous keypal known only as d3adsy, whose messages feel uncannily attuned to his fears.

What Frank doesn't know is that d3adsy is Gerard: his preppy, uptight, transcendentalist-obsessed dormmate.

Together, the two embark on a journey to recover memory, tragedy, and contrition online and in the real world, slipping into a bit of folie a deux along the way.