When family members leave you, it's a pain that will always live on in us, but not take over us completely, if we can help it. When relationships shatter, the pain can be mended and can be moved on from. But, when friendships break, it's a pain that can never be replaced or numbed.
Sometimes a simple sorry is all it takes to fix everything again, but when it's a major thing, you need another major thing to outmatch it.
So, when Maria, Ever and Reagan - the three friends since freshman year - break apart in the middle of their senior year, it's hard to tell if it's a small thing or something major. No one knows the full story, yet everyone has their own opinions and thoughts on the whole deal, which cause things to worsen. Their classmates all pick a side on who's right and who's wrong, causing other friendships to be put into question and more sides to be chosen.
Things get so bad that neither of the three can even look at each other without wanting to scream or cry or both. But, when they are suddenly given the horrible news from their teacher about one of their classmates, they never thought it'd be about one of the three of them, or even that it'd be so bad - even worse than the reason for their friendship ending.
Will this new news bring the old friends closer? Or will it end up ripping them all apart form the inside to the point of no return? Will it fix things all over again or end things permanently?
"No one ever gets tired of trying, they just get tired of all the waiting, all the assuming, hearing all those false promises, saying sorry all those times, and oh god...all the hurting." - Unknown.
Ryder Lay. A girl who has always been 'one of the guys'. She's the only girl on her high school varsity football team and her friends are her teammates, otherwise known as the biggest jocks of the school, the top of the social hierarchy.
Ryder is a total tomboy. Doesn't care about clothes or makeup. Doesn't care about dating. Doesn't care about hanging out with girls or going to the mall. Doesn't care about any of that kind of stuff.
She cares about football. Anything and everything about football. And laughing with her friends, her fellow football players, especially her best friends, Topher and Parker.
But things start to crumble. After all, drama never leaves.
Topher and Ryder's friendship starts to strain when Topher starts dating Ryder's enemy.
And when an awful person from Parker's traumatic past shows up, things go downhill.
And it certainly doesn't help that a ton of crazy stuff is going on when Topher, Parker, and Ryder are all up for the scholarship of their dreams.
But, for Parker, does being up for this scholarship mean he has to quit surfing, the one thing that's been keeping him going though his crazy, traumatic life?
Through all of this, will Ryder, who's never felt a certain love in her life, find new feelings for Topher? Oh wait. Maybe Parker?