Meadow

Lane Roehl is just ready to graduate. Growing up in a small town, she's been with these classmates since elementary school, and nothing surprises her anymore. She sits back and watches people's lives go down the drain, popularity statuses fluctuate, and countless relationships begin and end. She wants nothing to do with the typical, ordinary high school life, which is why she stays away from the so-called popular kids. Especially from guys like Ruben Mendoza. He checks all the boxes for "hot, high school jock," and he's painfully predictable. That is until one day, Ruben does a minuscule, blink-and-you-miss-it thing that is so uncharacteristic that Lane is dumbfounded and captivated. How could she have made such a grand miscalculation about the most stereotypical guy in school? This real-life plot twist leaves Lane both strangely jarred and morbidly curious. Maybe there's more to her ragtag group of classmates than she ever let herself realize, especially Ruben.

In the spirit of The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and Paper Towns by John Green, Lane must re-evaluate all of her preconceived ideas about people, the way they are, and really dedicate herself to finding out just how complex one human like Ruben can be.