The low ringing in your ears became almost deafening as you stood rooted to the spot inside the living room of a house party you were dragged to. You didn't want to be here. You didn't go to parties or make friends so coming to these things felt pointless.

You didn't enjoy being alone, in fact loneliness is the one feeling you despised the most, but it was what you were accustomed to from being a ghost inside your own home. You've always lived in the looming shadow your star rugby player brother, Jordan casted wherever he went. He was the golden boy your parents adored and you were just there...

You stopped trying to make friends at school after the fourth transfer because of his teenage rugby career. What was the point? You never stayed long, so you instead opted to keep your head down until it was time to transfer again. This year was supposedly going to be the last transfer. Tommen College, the private high school was supposed to be Jordan's golden ticket to the big leagues and you desperately hoped it wouldn't work out so that you could transfer schools again.

Tommen was hell for you and you wanted to get away as soon as possible. The girls at the school bullied you for reasons you couldn't fathom and the boys were jerks. Well, except for one... There was one person that made school bearable and that was Johnny Kavanagh, Tommen's rugby star. Johnny befriended you in the first week of school and made you public enemy number one. You secretly hated him for it, but you couldn't... Not when he was the only person that treated you like a human being.

The tears welled up in your eyes as you watched the humiliating video play on the television for all the partygoers to see... If you weren't already a laughing stock, those heinous girls made sure of it tonight. You wanted to run, disappear, hell anything to get away from here, but felt frozen as you watched your brother laugh with his friends at your misfortune. You felt a warm presence standing behind you and immediately knew it was Johnny.