When Sam moves to California, it is the middle of his senior year. He doesn't care about moving, he doesn't have any ties to New York, all his younger siblings are annoyed and mad, they don't want to move, they don't want to start over. Sam doesn't care, he has nothing, everything he owns can fit in one box. When he moves he ends up in a few classes with Xander, a popular jock. Xander gets partnered with the new kid in all the classes that they have together and he has to show him around because he's the school representative. He takes an interest in him because he rarely speaks, he doesn't do or say anything, he looks and acts like a walking dead man, Xander is interested in him because he's different, he's different in the way that nothing about him is even remotely different, he is the human embodiment of indifference. Sam doesn't care about Xander, he doesn't care if Xander talks to him for hours and joins him for lunch that he doesn't even eat, he doesn't care if Xander doesn't talk to him for days on end. He doesn't care for the longest time but slowly by slowly Xander starts to chip away at the millions of walls around Sam's existence. And Sam who wants to feel, who wants to be able to cry, who wants to get hurt just to feel something soon starts to feel and with that comes everything he's been trying to ignore, everything he's gone through. Xander is fascinated by this boy who doesn't feel, by this boy who doesn't exist in his own mind, this boy that doesn't have anything. But as things progress he starts to truly fall for him, the more he gets to know him, the more he tears down this boy's walls. He doesn't know what to do when everything flips on its head, when the boy he loves can't love him back until Sam starts to feel anything at all.