Lakin Brookes is a high school outcast who never listens to anybody! She acts all tough at school but in reality she's the weakest when it comes to her abusive mother. When 4 boys and a girl named Kassie walk into her life, she feels like she can be afraid without being looked at weirdly. She feels like she can be the real her! Her mother doesn't approve of her friends though so Lakin has to hide them! She develops a secret life involving laughter, romance, hard times, love and trust along the way hoping her mother never finds out.