Hazel has always imagined her life being like her mothers, not exactly exciting. She would graduate high school, go to college, and marry a nice guy and have a perfect family, well almost. She wanted something more, something more than just a simple life. Her senior year began and already everything was planned, first priority, pass all her classes. When Alex Rodriguez bumped into her life, literally, it turned it upside down. Alex never had someone to encourage him into the life he wanted, a life that wasn't expected of him. After coming back to the town where both his brother and dad were killed everyone thinks that he is just another Mexican boy that will never succeed in life. But Alex has different thoughts, he has dreams, and actually wants a future. When he meets Hazel something about her makes him feel like a different person, not the one he has built his entire life to be. Little does he know how much she will drive him crazy, but then again, the own Hazel feels hopeless as she falls for him. As they go through their journey they encounter many struggles of acceptance of their relationship and differences. At the end all that matters is simply love.