Alysen has a decision to make, and one that will affect her for the rest of her life. In four months at the End Of Summer Celebration all the girls who graduated that Spring will have to choose their partner. It's a cruel society law. Everyone gets three choices. Alysen has to choose from Dakota, her best friend, and fun-loving bad boy, or Jacob, the smart, kind and funny guy whose she's friends with as well. Or Josh, the country boy who shares the same dreams as Alysen and has a great smile. Hearts will be broken, and friendships get awkward. The pressure is on.
A year and a half after her father died from cancer level headed Laura and her mother make the decision to put the memories of the past behind them and start their lives over. Starting in a new high school mid fall semester of her junior year as well as working full time hours at the coffee shop her mother is trying to launch. Laura has a clear vision of her future she is taking requirement classes to ultimately end up as a pre-med major when she goes to college where as her father's death has inspired her to become an oncologist. However Laura ends up hanging out with a girl named Bridget and her two friends Heather and Jody and these three girls are up to no good, peer pressure to smoke and to drink alcohol at a party where there are no parents present. It is when three more wholesome and nicer girls from school Kimberly, Maggie and Sophie land a job at the coffee shop is when Laura realizes who her true friends are. Then one night tragedy strikes, which shakes up Laura's world once again. But like they say when one door closes in life another one will always open.