Lena Tittle/Halloway

Lena is the main character and narrator of the novel. The reader is privy to all her thoughts and feelings as the novel progresses and can see her attitudes change. Lena is an emotional girl of seventeen. She is under the cloud of her mother's supposed suicide. Lena sees herself as ordinary and short, someone who blends into the background and who is unlovable. She sees her mother's suicide as an abandonment and both her sister Rachel and her aunt Carol are distant from her. Due to this, Lena feels she isn't worthy of being love and has low self-esteem. She even questions whether her best friend Hana would be happier with another best friend.

When Lena first meets Alex, her life is governed by fear. She is afraid to be hurt and afraid to break the rules. She is afraid of losing Hana and afraid...