"Why do you do it?", He asks brow furrowed. "Why do you hurt yourself?" I suck in a puff of smoke from my cigarette. "To live we must be able to hurt.", I respond. "This isn't one of our English classes, Bee.", Grey parries. I let out some smoke and chuckled some. "Fine.", I pause. Because i deserve anything beyond terrible that comes my way." ------- Binnie Addams is working through life and, in her opinion, wasting away. She has a brother to take of and an incompetent mother she loathes. Her stepfather is no exception. In a world where there is no peace in her life she finds love is the last thing she could possibly get. That is, until Grey White becomes her substitute teacher. With ghosts in both individuals' closets will love truly be a stretch?