Zara Owens has a system. Chin up, face neutral, walk fast. Don't let them see it land. At seventeen, she has survived three years of Westbridge High by perfecting the art of disappearing and she was doing just fine until her mother signed her up to babysit for the Hendricks family without asking. The Hendricks family. As in Chase Hendricks the star quarterback. Most untouchable boy in school. The one who looked through her in the hallway like she was a furniture. The job is supposed to be simple: show up, watch six-year-old Micah, collect the money, and leave. What it is not supposed to be is a front-row seat to the cracks in Chase Hendricks' perfect life. His father left in October. His mother works doubles. His girlfriend is a performance and behind closed doors, the boy everyone at Westbridge worships is exhausted in exactly the same way Zara is, just wearing a different kind of armor. Forced into the same house four evenings a week, they do the thing neither of them planned for: they talk and somewhere between homework and dirty dishes and building blanket forts with Micah, the boy who never noticed her starts seeing her. All of her and Zara, who has spent years shrinking herself to survive, starts wondering if she was ever actually as invisible as she thought. But Westbridge doesn't forgive girls like Zara for wanting things they're not supposed to want. The bullying gets uglier and the rumors get louder. And the higher Chase reaches toward her, the more the world reminds her with photos taped to lockers, cruel captions, and things said about her body in hallways she can't unhear exactly why girls like her are supposed to stay in their lane.