JUDE

"And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder"
Hey Jude, The Beatles

Ryland 'Jude' Foster didn't know how to begin living again. Not that he'd ever really started. He'd never gotten the chance to figure out who he really was until it was too late. Now he had no interest in being anything like his old self. So, when he gets pressured into moving forward with his life, after a year of being a recluse, he decides to go all in. To be someone else. To do everything differently. To never be weak again. New name. New college. New...friends? Maybe.

Jude changes it all. Name. Appearance. Habits. At first it works. It seems like a new place can make a new person. But as a new friend pushes to get know him better, he realizes the past still haunts him and is forced to question why he wanted to become someone else, and if it was really necessary in the first place...