Different people are scared of different things. Trey was scared of not making varsity basketball so he could eventually go pro. Meg was scared that one time her father would never come home again. Dallas was scared of breaking a bone on the field and blowing a football scholarship that would be his only chance to get out. My dad was scared that one day it would be too late to get out of a burning house, because that meant he would have to leave us. I was scared of three things, really: 1. My dad leaving. 2. Dallas leaving. The scariest thing? Knowing that both of those were inevitable. **** Johnny Leben already thinks his life has problems. Everything started going downhill the previous year when his mom was hospitalized, and now he has no idea what to expect. As sophomore year starts, all he hopes for is to get his head back into school and his heart back into basketball while trying to win over beautiful, smart Audrey Kennedy. He never guessed that this fall would be even more turbulent: Where's Dallas when he isn't at practice and isn't at home? What's his boss hiding that he is so scared of? Why's it that no matter what he does, he just seems to make things worse for everyone? The building blocks of his life are tumbling down, and he's not ready to face the bottom.