Meet Ashton 18 senior year bullied, cuts, alone, no friends, anorexic, depressed, and abused at home. Now meet Luke the jock of the school, happy, and popular. Now keep in the mind that Luke's life is well, perfect. He wants to get to know Ashton but all he does is listen, learn, and draw arrows. Luke never understood why but he wants to find out. All Ashton wants is someone to listen, someone to stay with him, and most of all someone to love him for who he is but what Luke doesn't know is that Ashton as powers that go with his emotions.
Luke Hemmings is on the football team and is very popular among his fellow students. He is smart, but he has his flaws. He doesn't associate often with people who he finds to be 'lower' than him; this being based on social status.
Ashton Irwin loves attention. He likes to start drama, and this makes him less liked and at the bottom of the high school food chain. Soon enough, when senior years starts and people start drifting from him he begins to self-harm to pull them back in. He would show them his cuts, but people weren't having it. They knew his game.
But Luke didn't.
One day Luke would see these cuts on Ashton's wrist and Luke becomes determined to help the boy who doesn't really need it.
**Short Story**