Emmett Honeycutt has the best birthday of his life only to lose one of the most important people in it the very next day. As he fights with himself on whether or not to return to a family and town that hates him in order to say his last goodbyes, he gets support from an unlikely friend. This is a pre-series story based around Emmett Honeycutt and his strange but undeniable friendship with Brian Kinney.