The Connotations of Butterflies
by
Book: General Fiction, Romance, Horror
“We’re all animals on the inside. It just takes an instigator to show them all.”
One boys’ self corruption. One girl struggling to hold on.
Jack Wynter had no-one but the rooftops of Chicago to talk and cling to throughout his childhood. He used the very cities walls he would later destroy as his own shield from the outside world.
Though one day he meets a young outgoing girl, Kaitlyn Skye, and something develops between them.
It’s definition: Friendship.
Jack defines the relationship with fear and anxiety too frightened to let anyone close. But there’s something hidden beneath those golden eyes, something Kaitlyn fears, something that draws her nearer to him with each passing day that they spend in each other’s arms.
Kaitlyn’s outlook on life is simple and self-satisfying. However, through Jack Wynter’s obvious trauma she slowly comes to grips with the fact that life can be cruel.
While Jack pushes himself into self-loathing and mutilation, Kaitlyn Skye struggles to hold on. Hold on to Jack. Try to communicate the understanding of love to a young boy whose views have been so corrupted by years of trauma and abuse.
The question is: Will he accept the love offered to him? Or will he turn with bloodlust on the very community that betrayed him. Better yet, will her own life be its recompense?
