“Is she dead? I think she’s dead,” someone said in a very, very British accent. “She’s not dead Louis, the doctors just gave her some medicine to make her sleep,” another boy’s voice said. “Do you think that’s her natural hair color?” a third voice asked. This one I could barely understand. There was a lilt to his voice that I just couldn’t put my finger on. “I don’t know Niall, why don’t you ask her when she wakes up?” someone replied sarcastically. Someone sighed, I was guessing Niall. “Her hair’s so, blond,” a boy said. “It’s okay Harry, we know you fancy blondes,” Louis said. “Just because I slept with that one blond girl does not mean I’m into blon-” “But she is pretty,” one of the voices said. I had lost track. “Yeah. She’s very pretty,” Harry murmured.

High school quarterback Ethan Miller couldn't have been more excited to get away from big city life up in California and move to a small town in Alabama when his father changed jobs. For him, it's an easy transition from city to town. When he begins to help tutoring a very quiet loner by the name of Casen in math, however, he finds himself falling for a girl who's hiding a lot more than just her mp3 player under her hoodie. But how do you save somebody who's too scared to be saved?