The Weight of the World

Damaged people are the most dangerous kind. They know they can survive anything.

Payson Sullivan watched silently as Joe Jonas came back to L.A. after a five year self exile. She watched silently as he was shunned by his brothers, by his family, by his closest friends. She watched silently as a boy she had always secretly hated but admired at the same time infiltrated her circle involuntarily. She watched silently as a broken man dealt with the past he had left behind. She watched silently because she was as incomplete, she was as reserved, and she was as broken.