It was pity that first made Dannie speak to him. She had known Ryan since she was a kid, but he had always been the popular Golden Boy, and she had always been the tomboy that didn’t mind not having any friends. It was odd, she had thought, that all the popular kids who had once kissed the ground he walked on, didn’t so much spared him a glance anymore, and it was this that made her sit with him that one faithful day and begin something that would only end up causing her pain.

Small town girl Tiffany moves in the middle of her high school career to an even smaller town. What she doesn't know is that true love is awaiting her just down the street. Befriending, and soon dating Jared, the two quickly fall in love and become inseparable. Just before graduation, Jared announces that he's going to join the military and become a United States Marine. Can their love stand the test of time and distance? Does life have something more in store for them?