Alone, Together

Liz Cartwright was a 17 year-old girl. She had a 4.0 GPA, practically lived in the library, was always garbed in black head-to-toe, or else another color so dark you can't really tell the difference. No friends, no-one to ask what her family life was like...

Alex Foster was a comic geek. IQ worthy of a theoretical physicist, but an aversion to schoolwork. Any of his 10 or so friends would tell you that he was rude as hell, but still one of the best friends you could have. He wished that they would ask less about his home life. They never really understood...

Two people who had never met, and would normally not have anything to do with each other, until one day, everyone else in the world disappeared without a trace...