Step 1: Be Intelligent

Peter Lumen is a straight-A student with a perfect house and a picture perfect family everyone aspires to be.
But his friend is dying from cancer, his self-destructive sister tried to kill herself again, his mother is sick, his uncle is dying in a coma, his boyfriend is scared of being outed, and his parents aren't coping well with their children's struggles.
He can't take the constant emotional abuse anymore, and the only way to make it go away is to go numb.