"What's your story, Brooks? Why do you always show no emotion? Why the hell does it always look like you don't care for anyone. It looks like you're a steel wall inside." Riley said to me while he tried his hardest to pry his red, bloodshot eyes into mine.
I simply looked up at him and shook my head, giving him back the only thing that I've ever held on to. "It's because I am."
Meet Melanie "Lani" Brooks, seventeen year-old free-traveling nomad. She's the person in the back of the room that doesn't speak unless needed, and she's the one that won't pry into her own heart. With a rough past, when things get too complicated, she takes off, no coming or turning back to the fosters or people.
But with these foster parents, it's getting pretty damn hard to leave, no matter how complicated. At her new school, she finally has friends. And Riley Dawson, the school president and head in charge, has taken an interest in her. Together, they form a friendship, and maybe even more. But, when things get complicated, she wants to leave but something's pulling her not to. Will she choose her life? Or her love?
