How to Fall Out of Love

Delaney Hughes is a very organized girl. She likes things to be planned, thought over, and double- and triple-checked before any further action is taken. Otherwise, she feels as if everything is out of her control.

Imagine her life as a train. Imagine it making its way leisurely to a destination known as Delaney's Future, not a care in the world because it knows its tracks and conductor will keep it on the right course.

And then, bam! Suddenly, the conductor is knocked out with a baseball bat, and the track it was on splits into three different directions. Without the conductor, there's no way of knowing which track to take, which way to turn. It is lost, it is confused, and it is scared.

This is exactly how Delaney feels when her parents get a divorce and her mother moves halfway across the county, right when Delaney needs her most.

As if enough isn't already going on at home, what with her father becoming more and more reliant on drugs and her brother becoming extremely distant, Delaney unexpectedly gets chosen to show around and befriend the new kid, in an attempt to make him more comfortable.

And like any great love story, Delaney falls for him. Hard.

Now, falling in love would be great, if she had planned it. Which she hadn't.

Delaney soon realizes one thing is at last within her control. Falling out of love. How will she do it? Only time will tell.