Intro. Fate reunited us at the university after years of distance. Being neighbors again meant resuming daily trips to campus, but Liam is no longer the elementary school kid I remembered. Although his shoulders are broader and his voice deeper, his treatment of me retains a confusing tenderness; He takes care of me when I walk and lends me his jacket, nurturing a love that we have never named. However, Ethan has begun to fade. He has joined a dangerous group, exchanging books for recklessness and nights of excess. His rebellion seems more like an escape than a choice. Now, every morning walk is a desperate struggle: trying to rescue the boy he once was before bad influences consume him. Not only do I fight for their future, but for that "us" that was just beginning to flourish and that their new lifestyle threatens to destroy forever. I look into his eyes searching for a trace of my best friend, fearing that the man I fell in love with is lost...