Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

After a forced meeting with the One Direction boys Alexa notices that the one she disliked the most turned out to be the one she found the most interesting. Alexa has been warned not to get too close, yet no matter what happened she could not stay away from him. There was nothing to keep them together and there was everything tearing them apart, when all they do is hurt each other how long will it take until one of them is completely destroyed?