You won't like me. I am not the nice girl. I am not your friend. I don't care about you, but most of all, I don't care about me. Go ahead, hate me. We all have secrets. I have them as well-dark, terrible secrets. The only time I can breathe is when I forget. I need to be numb. You don't want to know how. But as long as I can breathe, the past cannot smother me.

If you can make it out of Enid High School alive, you can make it through anything. Alexis is the new girl at school, and she's ruthlessly bullied. Hopeless, and drowning in her present reality, she takes pills-lots of pills. She's sent to a mental health facility, where she meets a boy. Only the boy can't save her, and no one can save her from herself. Nick has secrets. He wants to open up to Alexis, but there's the dead boy who haunts him. In his dreams. While he's awake. He wants to be brave, but he can't tell her about his past, and he can't leave the facility. Melanie rules over the...