The Trellis Effect

SECRETS, LIES, AND BETRAYAL, that’s all I have known.

Life has always been hard, a torturous game of survival for my brother and me.

Death was something unknown until that one fateful night when it found us, engulfing us. Forcing us into a world that no longer wanted us. A world that I no longer cared to be a part of.
As if disaster has not already struck, and a life has already been lost, mine slowly fades. The more he takes, the more I take from myself, until there is nothing left.
A new house, with the same secrets and lies, where the same monster will feed on its prey. We knew what this new life would be: a new hell. What I didn’t expect was the boy next door.

His sweet smile and protective arms promised an escape, but for how long? Each day spent with him is another day closer to the inevitable.
Only the boy next door won’t let that happen.