Chapter 1

It's always the quiet ones.

Cadence Riggs has a past. A reputation. But it's not what everyone thinks it is. They don't know about her gifts with art. They don't understand why she's so bruised up all the time. Or what causes her to hang out with the rougher crowd in school, even when they seem to hate her just as much as she hates them. None of them know the real her.

But Josh Dun is determined to. He wants to peek into the mind and heart of the girl that paints images of outer space on the long-forgotten train car in his backyard. He wants to discover what makes her seem so out of reach to rest the people around them.

But that might cause Cadence's carefully constructed lie of a life to crumble before everyone's very eyes.