Nerdy Dakota Evans makes the biggest mistake of her life by falling in love with her best friend, Aaron Ford. Despite coming from entirely different cliques in school, will their relationship have a chance? *** In a high school where everyone belongs to cliques, nerdy and boyish Dakota Evans' friendship with basketball jock, Aaron Ford, becomes a big issue. Aaron's highly protective of Dakota and doesn't realize that she's in love with him. With their friendship eventually going on the rocks, will Aaron finally realize his true feelings for Dakota before it's too late? [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]]

I stared at him with huge eyes to see how he would react to the fact that I just admitted that I was not who I seemed. He looked just as wide eyed as I'm sure mine were, so I took this chance to turn around and run, leaving everything behind. How could I be so stupid? I asked myself. I ran as fast as I could and felt a tear roll down my cheek. Crying? How can some guy make me cry? I thought my tears all dried out when fate took everything from me, so how can he make me feel so sad? I guess it only reminded me of how alone I was.