A young Ashley Davies is forced to spend her summer in South Carolina.

When everything is right something inevitably goes wrong.

They were existing in some higher form of being, if only briefly, in a way that only romantics and monks could possibly understand. They were in love.

A young Ashley Davies is forced to spend her summer in South Carolina.

Things had changed a lot in two weeks. Despite it being summer, Spencer had little desire to hang out with friends or frequent the beach. She’d become mildly obsessed with the elusive brunette.

Once everything came more distinctly into focus she spotted exactly what she was looking for. A jewelry box.

A thoughtful silence fell between the pair. Ashley was not only confused, but torn. How could a person care so much about someone they hardly knew?

Spencer shrugged, not able to explain exactly why she felt so drawn to the girl beside her. Maybe they’d been friends in a past life, or maybe there was some sort of cosmic bond. All she knew was that there was something in those brown eyes that she liked.

Ashley began noticing smaller details about the earnest blonde across from her. Like the thin gold chain around her neck with the little ruby pendant in the middle. And her name brand jeans. Maybe this would be worth her time after all, “What’s your name?”

A young Spencer and Ashley struggle when rumors spread through the school.

Two young best friends try to do what they do best, which is be with each other.

“It’s a rollercoaster ride of emotion that will make you squirm in your seats, call your mother and shake a stranger’s baby.” -LA Times

It’s scandalous. It’s sexy. It’s vaguely amusing.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. ~R.E.M.

“It was heaven, but with sex and booze and God’s complete permission. It was a world where the Ten Commandments were: Party. Party. Party.”

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” ~J.K. Rowling

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~Mignon McLaughlin

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

“It was only about thirty minutes later when it finally dawned on her why she couldn’t feel anything. It was because she was about to lose everything.”

“Lights will guide you home and ignite your bones, and I will try to fix you.” -Coldplay

It is 8:40am on Septemember 11, 2001, and their lives are about to make a dramatic change.

Spencer contends with a devastating loss, using the one and only Ashley Davies as her crutch.

Spencer contends with a devastating loss, using the one and only Ashley Davies as her crutch.

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” -Alice In Wonderland