"Be strong," they said. "You're a lucky guy," they said.
Lucky? Lucky?! Clearly, they were the crazy ones.

I think even in my life before, I was always a little messed up in the head. A little too sad when I didn't have reason to be. A little too amped up for a fight that didn't need to happen. An all-round screw-up. That was me, alright.

•         •         •

Pain used to be a distant word in Ryan Locke's vocabulary, but like everything else that's far away, it found a way to get closer. Without warning, an unforeseeable tragedy shattered everything he once believed in.

Everyone has a beginning. This is Ryan's.
*contains mild profanity and deals with sensitive issues