Everyone at school knows Nicholas Newton. The quiet genius. The straight-A student. The boy who never smiles. No one really knows him, though. When you’re paired together for a writing assignment, you expect it to be painfully awkward. Nicholas barely speaks, barely looks at you, and seems completely uninterested in anything beyond getting the work done. But the more time you spend together in the quiet corners of the library, the more you begin to notice things others don’t. The way his voice softens when he’s explaining something. The way he hesitates like he wants to say more… but stops himself. Nicholas Newton isn’t just distant. He’s guarded. And somehow, without meaning to, you might be the one person who gets past his walls. Even if it means uncovering things he’s tried so hard to keep hidden.