It sucks to think you actually knew somebody so well. You thought you knew anything and everything of that person, but one day realize that you don't. It's disappointing to wake up one day and realize that the person you thought you knew, is now a complete stranger to you. How did we drift so far away from one another? Is the question you constantly ask yourself from time to time. But when that person makes a promise swears up and down that they will keep it. Then after awhile they go and break it anyways. Melanie Oaks is dealing with her best friend Mathew Smith. They had each other's back since preschool and did absolutely everything together. Now in Melanie's Junior year of East Town High, she's been messed up with emotions. Melanie's first boyfriend John, was abusive and a major control freak. Watching her every move and always checking up on her, it felt as if she couldn't breath with him around. Until, the summer before freshman year he moved away and Melanie finally felt at peace with herself again. Soon after her first relationship ended, Mathew was there to pick up the pieces of her broken heart, and slowly begin to piece it back together. Melanie could always trust him... Or so she thought. Little did Melanie know that she was just another notch in Mathew's belt. Melanie was soon set up to be Shattered..