For the first twelve years of Stephen Vaughn's life, just trying to get others around him to pronounce his first name the right way ("Stee-vehn Vawn") has felt like the hardest task he's had to try and cope with. That is, until his perfect life with two perfect best friends in a not-so-perfect suburban town gets thrown off course, and he finds himself having to move to a familiar city four hours away. The blonde, four-eyed, soccer-playing, aspiring graphic novelist and certified dork has never been fond of change. So, when reality sets in, joy fades. Doubts start to soar. Memories turn into enemies. Until he meets her. The dirty-blonde girl next-door. Mackenzie "Kenzie" Carder, aspiring psychologist and only kid living on the new block. All he has to do is say hello, find out they have more in common than he thinks, and his entire perception of change turns inside out for the good. And as the years go by, so does his perception of her. It's the beginning of a series that not only explores their world, but peeks at the much bigger world around them. A world where a new generation's on the rise, and how everybody involved (including Stephen and Kenzie) must cope with some of young adulthood's most stressful of changes, from the possibilities of attending college to a certain somebody telling a certain best friend how he's truly felt about her since the day they met as the biggest turning point in their young life nears.