People naturally have addictive tendencies. We like what we know feels good to us. We like to feel good as people. We also want to be liked by people. These are all fundamental truths of the human experience. 

    Our two main protagonist’s, Sam and Stella, are addicts themselves, though both have hesitancy seeing their full scope of addictions throughout the story. The narrative shares the complex nature of their relationship over the course of 5 years, while they both battle the ins and outs of their addictions, of substances and each other. They asynchronously try to deal with their sobriety. Both try to quit when they are apart, usually using the other as reasons to be better, but intentions are only beautiful ideas that do not always make their way to surface reality. Their stories begin in the middle of college, where they meet each other at a party one night. Sam is immediately taken back by Stella’s confident beauty, noticing it even when he is unable to coherently notice his surroundings. They spend one drugged up night together where they hit it off, and hit a lot of other things as well. Life naturally drifts them apart after and reconnects them months later. Throughout their journey it becomes increasingly aware that they are wrong for one another’s sake, even noticing themselves, but they just never seem able to to quit for good. It’s a conflicting experience for the two as they are oppositional as people yet fill the holes the other one lacks, even with the temptations they may bring on one another’s journeys through sobriety. It’s a story about the layout of their life and a larger arc about the human experience of addiction, and how another person can become one of them.