Life isn't easy for someone like Riley. Always second best, always one step behind. All her friends seem to be better at everything and she can't seem keep up with them. Still, she keeps a strong facade, smiling and laughing as if on cue, seeming happy to be the second best. Life at home isn't that different, what with having two perfect siblings and two perfect parents. So when the opportunity to go to a prestigious boarding school far from home comes knocking on the door, she can't help but accept, leaving behind her friends and family and starting from scratch. At the end of her junior year, all her friends plan a surprise "farewell" trip for her to a luxurious beach resort, and Riley, not terribly excited of the prospect of getting sunburns and sand everywhere, but grateful for her thoughtfull friends, accepts to go. But little does she know that her new life is starting sooner rather than later. And let me tell you, what a life...