What It's Like Being A Sunflower
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Mila Tate is at her senior year at Spring Hill High. She's bubbly, funny, and loves to take Polaroid's when she completes a wish off of her bucket list. But what happens when she bumps into the schools bad boy "Adrian Clarkson?" He who seems tough to everyone around him but can only be identified by the people closest to him. Will she be able to break his walls?
She tries to fight against the battles she's facing in her abusive relationship. Slowly, slowly it changes the girl she once was. The only thing that's keeping her up on her feet are these unknown paper cranes that keep entering her locker. Learn and read at how new friendships are discovered and mysteries solved.
'Sometimes the people that you think you know, are the ones that are actually strangers.'
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