Catherine (Cathy) Nickleson has a kind of normal life. She has a few friends, gets good grades, but gets bullied by the most popular girl in the school, Lucy Ralinson. Not to mention that her next door neighbor is the bad boy of the school, Cody Harrolds. She has to look out her window every day and see him smoking, blasting his radio, throwing a party, or doing the dirty with a girl. But, Cathy knows a secret about him, a secret nobody else knows.