Sawyer is an average teenager, dealing with the everyday challenges of relationships, friendships, finding love, and family issues.  Her situation is a little more challenging because her boyfriend Kevin dies in a car accident at the beginning of the book.  Kevin was a popular football player.  Sawyer depended on Kevin for her self confidence in her appearance.   The day of Kevin's funeral Sawyer is moved to visit his bedroom.  On the way she stopped dead at the sight of a girl staring back at her.  "She was tall and thin...with a boyish body that was all edges and angles.  Her long brown hair was looped in a herringbone braid that fell over one shoulder, and baby hairs stood up in a static-y halo around her head, shot out from the loose weave of the braid.  The girl’s eyes looked like they may have been velvety brown and deeply alive once, but they were sunken and flat now.  Her lips were barely pink and pulled down at the edges.  This girl wore her mourning black like a second skin.”  (Jayne 2) Sawyer was looking at herself.