Hali Monroe, an average girl from New York City and a junior in high school. Just when she gets accepted to a college at the end of the year, her parents make it clear that they can't afford it. Work, is her only option. They send her down to Alexandria, TN, a town with a population of 973 where she lands a job at her grandmother's diner. She meets Cody Louis, a popular town native. Thing is, she can't move forward in her love life after she found out her boyfriend was killed in a tragic accident. Can she fall in love again?

Seventeen-year-old Kendra Watson and her mother live in Chicago where life is difficult and unpredictable. Kendra is battling between her physical appearance and choosing the right people to hang around with in school. Any decision she makes can either land her in a lot of trouble or make her successful so she can get her mother and her out of poverty. What will she make of her life? PART 2 Seventeen-year-old Kendra Watson made a decision that will change her life forever. Will she get enough help and support? Who will she turn to when things get even more rough? Seventeen-year-old Shaun Miller has no parents since they died when he was younger. He basically now raises himself and is struggling to keep on the right track in life. Will he make the right decisions, or will his ego cause him to land himself in drama? Seventeen-year-old Janelle Bennett was betrayed by her best friend Kendra Watson, and now goes around Chicago doing violent things. Will she be able to get help and turn her life back around, or will she learn the hard way?

You know that moment when it is the last three seconds on the clock and your team has the ball. One second has past and now it is down to two. The orange and black Spalding ball is passed to you. That's when it's time; time to shoot the ball flows out of your hand oh so smoothly and sails through the air until it swishes straight at the buzzer. The crowd goes wild. You just stand there and smile at the scoreboard full of pride. Then out of the corner comes the love of your life. And you run over to him to kiss and hold you wake up because the dream is now over. Hey, my name is Messiah. I've always been a Hooper. I'm not one of those regular tumblr hippies either. I hate that to death all those girls look the same they make us light skinned girls seem so basic. I wear my hair curly and wild like a lion. I mean I am a Leo. I absolutely hate makeup. The most I will ever put on will be some eyeliner and lip gloss. People really didn't appreciate me for that. I always got picked on you know. Especially by the boys. They were always talking about how girls couldn't hoop and how I would never amount to anything in the WNBA, but unlike most of them I was going to do something with my skill.

Who am I? Who are these people I've called family all my life? I mean seriously. It's like my whole lfe is a lie. I don't even know who I am is my real name even Alexandria. I doubt it now. All my life I've been known as Alex or as my family says Alexandria Destiny Smith. Until that one day when I got a call. All I can remember them saying is your parents aren't your actual parents there people who want to be our parents you have to get away now. Run don't look back. Your real name is Crystal Rose Tyler .You were August 16, 1996. As soon as this call is over take your phone and smash it. Put on gym shoes that are comfortable and a jacket. Bring all the money you have don't bring credit cards they can track you down. Leave now .... I mean it don't look back, smash the phone and I'll call you. I know were you are at all time. Your wasting time go now.