When socially awkward, and extremely shy Hannah Grimes moves to a new high school her senior year last minute, she's anything but happy. She's ready to leave everything behind and leave her family to rot, and for her to have a real chance at finding her place in the world. She's lived with her grandparents since she was three and only knew what other's had told her about her parents. Hannah knew one thing, that she never wanted to be like them. She didn't drink, smoke anything, snort, roll, she was a straight edge kid who made good grades, not that anyone would ever look at her and know it.
Austin Carlile sings and screams in a band called, Of Mice & Men, and is trying to put his bands name out there and finally sign with a label. He pretty much self entertains himself with one of his good friends, Caleb. They both are considered the weird outcasts in their school and at times it can get pretty rough, but music always helps Austin through it. He wasn't always in a band though, and when the idea of a band was still fresh in his head, did he finally meet Caleb's friend, Alan. They hated each other at first to say the least but made it work for the same reasons. Austin isn't big on school, but is super smart when it comes to thinking outside the box, and the whole band is relate able.
What happens when Hannah moves and changes her life to finally finish her senior year? She's got awful anxiety and a terrible case of OCD, so when she meets this wild, off the wall kid, and his bonkers friends, will she hate the year even more? Or maybe see there's hope for a happy senior year.
Cole the Not So Stereotypical Jock
Being the most popular guy that girls all want to be with and all guys want to be should make you feel on top of the world, right? Not always, especially if you have to keep the fact that you can barely afford food a secret at all costs. And then the new girl shows up with her amazing dance moves and intoxicatingly confusing logic, and he can't seem to get her out of his head. She isn't the favorite girl of the school, not to mention his friends, and she doesn't show any interest towards him, but he has to try. The girl with the mysterious ways has got him wrapped around her scarred little finger.
Not Andy
Being the girl with no friends is never easy- especially when you have major trust issues and problems that can only be discussed with a shrink. That's why instead of slowly letting people into her life, she chose to shut them out completely. It seems easier that way, which is until she moves to Bangor, Maine and catches the eye of Cole, the football quarterback and heart throb of the school. He makes her feel things that she didn't think we're capable, and he shows how to make a bad situation into something semi-tolerable. It gets her thinking that maybe cliche boys with secrets aren't such a bad thing.
During their 17th year, Andy and Cole must face the problems of high school, social hierarchy, their pasts, relationships, trust, friendships, and even love. Both of them knowing that stories like this never happen to kids like them, but they're willing to try anyway.