"No matter what happens, Krist, I'm lucky to have met you. You showed me that not everything is complete shit," I whispered through my tears. High school is hard for everybody, but especially for someone who doesn't fit into the small town they were born into. Maxine feels like she's spent her whole life on the outside looking in. She's spent the last three years blending into the background of her high school, until a group project sparks an unlikely friendship and sets off a chain reaction that would change things indefinitely.