Prologue

Who am I, you ask? Are you sure you want to know?

You say you want to hear the story of my life. That story is not for the faint of heart.

If somebody said that my story was a happy little tale if somebody told you I was just your average, ordinary guy without a care in the world...

... then somebody lied.

Well, I might actually be slightly average, but that wouldn't be the whole truth. My story is that of a boy who was deprived of a family, who never had the support to do what he wished the most, and that was forced to live alone whether or not he was prepared for that.

It's the story of a lonely childhood spent playing video games, watching movies, anime, reading books, and web novels, rather than playing or being other kids, and things such as best friends.

Yes, mine is a tale of pain and sorrow, loss and grief, longing and heartache, anger, and betrayal. And that just covers the high-school years.

My story, like so many others worth telling, is also about a boy and a girl. About true feelings kept bottled up for years, about a lonely, shy boy desperate to tell the girl how he felt, yet so terrified of rejection, that he kept those feelings hidden until he felt he might explode.

The girl? Her name is Maxine Caulfield, she is the one I've loved for as far as I could remember the first book I have read.

My name, you ask? Well... Victor, Victor Graham.