Crossed

Intro

Poppy cannot wait to leave her dreary, small-town of suffocation and boredom. She dreams of the world beyond the identical houses, painted tortoise shell white, and the grey pavements that go everywhere but out. Being popular and pretty has no value to her like it used to in high school; the cliché of her life from before only makes her more desperate to escape her small town. She's lost.

Alex is a freak. An eccentric. A bag on his back the only thing he has to call home. He's what Poppy's mum might call a 'free spirit'- not tied to any place or person. After several years of travelling alone, something feels missing. He's seen a multitude of things but has no one to share his visions with. He's lost.

When Alex ends up in a small town, by a stroke of fate, he meets a girl who will ruin his life completely.
When Poppy happens across a lonely boy who is everything she wants to be, she realises she might not be just ready to be found.

Life never goes according to plan.