The Boy with Hope

Seventeen-year-old Abbie Lewis is a straight A's student and she's popular and pretty. She has everything a teenage girl could ever want-- except for hope. She questions her academic ability, saying how she doesn't think any college would ever want to represent her. She doesn't have hope in true friendships, ackowledging how her fellow popular friends are two-faced. And the most worrisome of all? She doesn't have hope that true love exists; that is, until Anthony Jackson moves to the empty house next to her. Anthony is sweet, known for respecting women and being positive. Abbie tries to stay away from him, and she tells herself that he's stupid for looking at the bright side of things. His optimism is so contagious, and Abbie becomes overwhelmed with anxiety one day after failing a test during finals week of her Senior year in High School, believing that she'll never be good enough to go anywhere in life, until Anthony finds her, mid-panick attack, struggling to breathe in an empty bathroom stall. It's a strange thing, how when Anthony is around Abbie, the darkness seems to vanish with no trace. After all, it's hard not to fall for The Boy with Hope.