Loving someone who doesn't notice your existence is hard. Loving someone who loves someone else is even harder. But, darling, I guess that's love.

Whoever says boys and girls can't just be friends is lying, and Lexi Hamilton is living proof of that. Spending the majority of her adolescence surrounded by only boys, Lexi is accustomed to maintaining strictly platonic relationships with the men she's remained closest to. Not once has she ever gushed over one of her friends, or even remotely felt the smallest twinge of romantic affection for a single one of them. That is, until senior year. With graduation and college looming ahead, Lexi planned to spend her senior year spending the entirety of her free time with the five boys closest to her. She accomplishes that - but she also develops feelings she has never in her life felt before. As much as she tries to deny it, she has truly become enamored by one of the guys that she has considered a best friend for most of her life. She refused to acknowledge her feelings, knowing they have the potential to ruin everything she has come to appreciate about her friend group. But will love somehow conquer her fears and allow her to seek something bigger than she could have ever imagined? Or will her worries prove true?

In all the love stories, there is a broken girl, someone who's afraid to fall in love. In all the love stories, there is a guy who tears down her walls and makes her fall head over heels. The girl gets scared. The guy chases her. The girl lets herself fall. They get married... ZZZZ. Point is, there are a lot of cliché love stories. But what if I told you not every story's like that? Harry is sick of it all. He's sick of the rumours, the accusations, the bullying, the finger pointing. To top it all off, he had his heart smashed and trampled on by a childhood friend. He plasters on a fake smile to fool everyone, and for the most part, they believe him. He shuts down, becomes numb, becomes the living dead. He promises not to let anyone get that close to him again, that he'll never place his heart in someone else's hands. Chelsea is excited to move out her boring hometown in Canada, and start living her own life living in Manchester and exploring the world during her gap year. She's got her income from her blog and YouTube videos, and she can't think of doing anything else with her life. With her two best friends Dylan and Tyler by her side, she's ready to take on the world. She's ready to begin her life. But when she starts falling, falling for a guy who doesn't fit into her plans at all, a guy who has locked his heart up in a metal cage, what happens then? How strong does she have to be to tear down his walls and make a place in his heart?