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Everyone knew that Brookville's little princess, Eileen Whitney, and crown prince Stanley Owen played the same twisted game every time they broke up. On breaking up, they found someone to stand in for the other, tormenting each other for sport, and they never got bored. Unfortunately, my childhood friend Donovan Cochran became Eileen's latest "substitute." When he was sent back, he came home missing the lower half of his body and in a coma. His single mother's hair turned grey overnight. That very night, Donovan and his mother drank poison and never saw the next sunrise. That was when I lost the only family I had left in the world. At their graves, I wiped my tears away. "You play your substitute games, using other people's lives as toys. Fine... then this time, I'll be the player." After that, Brookville turned upside down. No one expected that Stanley, for the sake of a mere stand-in, would drag Eileen straight into hell himself.