No one understands Alex Crowe's hard life, and she thinks no one ever can. But when she bumps into James, little does she know her guarded walls are about to be taken down. James just started teaching at this college trying to make kids understand the importance of a better education and how it can turn your life around, just like it allowed him to do. But when he meets this girl who questions everything he believes in and challenges him at every turn, he is drawn in wanting to know why she is the way she is, and why she is so scared of past. Everyone has demons lurking, but would you stick around to listen to someone else's story as their demons return. -update: I started this 6 years ago and just rediscovered it, so be patient as I go back through a re-work the story so it makes more sense :)