Sheltered

"My mind is my enemy and my best friend. My protector and a liar, desperately seeking truth. I live here, aware but sheltered, protected from the gifts of vulnerability..."

Alex's songs always began with the pencil he kept behind his ear, the place Sarah created when he first met her in high school, and high school was where they started a conversation they never wanted to finish.

But life isn't high school, and adolescence ended for Sarah and Alex when they graduated in 2006 and continued on...