Plot
High School student Laren Oliver has a great life, with a happy family and three best friends; Morgan, Angie and Nina. They deal with teenage drama and when Nina's boyfriend Scott breaks up with her she refuses to let go. Laren and Scott end up getting closer and closer and begin to have a relationship that they keep from everybody else, particularly because Laren knows she shouldn't be with him for the sake of Nina. One day as Scott and Laren are saying goodbye, Angie accidentally witnesses their kiss goodbye. Angie immediately tells everyone. Suddenly none of Laren's friends will talk to her. She has no friends and everyone at school knows of her betrayal. The only person Laren has now is Scott who she begins to get even closer to. When Laren doesn't think things can get any worse her dad gets in a car accident and dies. Now Laren's mother and brother are both an emotional mess. Laren has no friends and no family to rely on. As she begins to learn the story of her fathers death she learns that her father was in the car with another woman whom he had been having an affair with. Run down with emotion Laren attends a therapists where she begins to write letters that are addressed to her dad. As all of this crisis occurs Laren begins to realize that Scott is being more and more distant and begins to realize that he no longer has feelings for her. She eventually breaks up with him and through all of this misery Morgan, Angie and Nina begin to forgive her. Laren gets her friends back in the end and brings closure to her dad's death by finishing her last letter to him in which she forgives him for his actions 'And now, looking back and seeing past the moments to the whole, I know I can forgive you. That I will forgive you. It may take a while longer, but I have already begun. It's just that I'm beginning to feel...ready. For what lies ahead. ~Laren'
I found the plot to be the biggest downfall of the book being very predictable and cheesy.
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