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.
Brooke is a girl with insecurities like any other girl, only her insecurities are about other things than what people think. Their about how she acts and how she is going to finally make her parents proud of her.
She first did this when she was very young and her family started to doubt her saying "she is going to be a reckless teenager"
"Here we go again another teenager, she might as well just drop out of high school"
"We better start saving for when the baby comes" and other things like that. So she built her walls up and started being a different person that who she truly was.
Later on she finds herself loosing it. Tired of concealing her feelings. So she starts to let people break down her walls. Who will? She has no idea. Soon she finds herself loving the school bad boy and has no idea on how to handle it. Little does she know that he feels the same way. And it all started when he moved next door.