Alexithymia /ˌeɪlɛksəˈθaɪmiə/
A personality construct characterized by the sub-clinical inability to identify and describe emotions in the self.
Imagine not being able to express feelings, not being able to feel love for your own mother, Can you imagine that? Dr Roberts can.
He is dying, a few measly years left for him. Alone, Depressed and Sick. His everyday job is to cure others, how can he when he feels no better himself? He likes to call his inability to care Alexithymia. Until, she came. The vindictive bitch who ruined his life, but in fact made it better.
Getting hurt is worse than dying, because there is no painkillers to sedate it.
Would you risk it?
Elliot Jensen and Elliot Fintry have a lot in common. They share the same name, the same house, the same school, oh and they hate each other but, as they will quickly learn, there is a fine line between love and hate.