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.

Ayli Williams is a meek and quiet person. She is quite perceptive, which provides her an advantage in choosing the company (friends) she retains in her circle. But there was one guy she remembered from school who had always been around, but she couldn't figure out who he was deep down. Dajuan Johnson, dubbed "the boy who girls will slit throats for." He doesn't say much, but he knows how to interact with others effectively, or maybe it's just his swag...... Ayli and Dajuan aren't strangers by appearances, but they are strangers by heart... and after all these years, Ayli's attraction to him has grown, for she developed a taste for the exact type of guys she had intended to avoid.