Stitches on a Canvas

With steady hands, he holds her's that tremble. Though his hands are solid, the promise he makes of it all being fine, is not. Blake Nichols is a 4th year, Pre-Medical student at University of Maryland. Being use to the lonely, emotionless life he has experienced since the many years that have passed after his Mother's death, his world is questioned when he runs into Colette. Being of a far different past, Colette's pain lies in her present, and her early onset Parkinson's. She is a 3rd year Art student at the same University. The struggle lies within a strong, independent woman who has always been fine taking care of herself, until she discovers the need to collapse and helplessly be rescued by the man who had never known feelings existed in this world, until he met her. Switching between Blake and Colette's perspective as the story goes on, we see and feel the joy that two lost souls experience by being with one another, while feeling the desperation and pain they experience when they are without