Julia had always been a quiet girl; she didn't talk to anyone. On rare occasions, she spoke in class to give presentations or speeches. Her teachers knew she was extremely intelligent. Her classmates did as well, but simply did not care. And that was fine with Julia. She did not have any friends, only spoke when spoken to, and wrote all the time.
Julia always wrote in her free time. She filled her favorite notebook with stories. Stories about herself told in the third person because then they felt far away from her, As though they were happening to someone else. She always carried it with her. What happens when she seems to lose it one tragic day of senior year?
Daniel is a broken boy; he just wants to die. That's mostly all he wants, but he also wants his foster parents proud of him. That's why he has promised himself to just make it through high school. He would leave soon afterward and just disappear. Senior year, he is preparing himself and his parents to leave. That is, until he sees a notebook. Desperate to return it, looking for a name, he opens it, and falls in love with the words on the page.
Follow the two of these on their heartbreaking journey to discovering what life is all about and why it matters.
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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