From the outside looking
in Garrison Davis seems like every other senior in high school. On the inside
though, he’s an emotional wreck promising to not love anyone. He chooses to
protect himself by vowing solitude. His dad is in prison for dealing drugs; his
mother is a recovering addict and an emotional mess. The only thing that brings
him joy is playing the drums and that feeling of being needed by his band. It
is his escape, his passion. No one gets hurt or disappointed. That is until he lays his eyes on Reese at
school. She is the exact example of what he cannot let himself get involved in.
He would do nothing but drag her down with him.
“I want to tell her and
show her how much I love her. I had loved her from the first time I spotted her
in that courtyard smiling but I can’t, I won’t. She deserves so much more than
I can offer. I’m the spawn of a drug dealer and an addict. I have never let
myself love another person and now… I
love her so much it hurts.”
Reese Owens is the exact
opposite of Garrison. Inside she’s beaming; growing up in a happy home and on
the outside she was a duck out of water. Her parents are the over protective
set but are finally loosening the jail bars. Sophomore year in high school, she
has never dated a boy and is envious of the social life her best friend Autumn
Welch has. She meets Garrison and is instantly attracted to him. He pulls away
when she pushes in. A whole new world opens up to Reese and she finds herself
falling into situations she can’t get herself out of. Making bad decision after
bad decision, she finds out the hard way on how life is full of choices. The one thing she wants more than anything is
Garrison’s attention which she doesn’t get in return.
“How is it possible to
love someone and keep it quiet? Never to utter those very words knowing he
doesn’t feel the same way. I finally fall in love and he only wants to be
friends. He is everything I have always wanted and he keeps me at a distance
making sure we don’t get too close. How can I ignore my feelings and act like I
don’t have them when we are around each other? How do I resist the urge to move
my lips towards his when he is talking to me?”
Garrison realizes he has
to be honest with Reese and tell her how he really feels before he loses her
for good. Just maybe, he will get love in return for the first time in his
life. When he finally convinces himself to come forth, a life changing event
occurs that could take away the only person in his life that truly loves him.
Is it too late? Does he
get the chance to tell her? And when he confesses does it matter?