popular, and optimistic. Nate is described as having blond hair, and being "cute, but in a rich-boy kind of way". Jamie Hunter is Cora's wealthy, easygoing, amicable husband. He came from a large family and loves to celebrate festivities. He is the founder of the most popular social networking website UMe and built a pond in his backyard. Olivia Davis is Ruby's new friend that also attended Ruby's old school. She is constantly on her cell phone. Is somehow related to Don Davis, from This Lullaby. Gervais Miller is young for his grade, but is one of the smartest kids in school. He carpools with Nate and Ruby and excels in Calculus. He tutors Ruby to become friends with Olivia. Blake Cross is Nate's father who founded a service to run errands for people. He owns the house beside Cora and Jamie's. Blake also beats on Nate throughout the story and that helps form Ruby and Nate's relationship Marshall is a boy from Ruby's old school with whom Ruby had an "arrangement". Peyton is Ruby's best friend before Ruby moved away. Ruby later finds out that Marshall was in a relationship with Peyton. Peyton went to private school before she got expelled for possessing drugs on school grounds. She went Jackson High after that, where she met Ruby through her boyfriend. Rogerson Biscoe is Marshall's best friend and roommate (also a character from Sarah Dessen's other work Dreamland). Laney is Olivia's cousin who throughout the novel trains and takes part in the 5K race, in which she is the last one to finish the race. Harriet is a red-haired hard-working woman who owns a jewelry kiosk at the mall and provides Ruby with a job with great reluctance at first. She drinks too much coffee and shares Ruby's same independence and self-reliance. Reggie owns a vitamin kiosk near Harriet's. He and Harriet constantly bicker and tease each other, but it is obvious that he is interested in her. Heather Wainwright is Nate's extremely selfless, kindhearted ex-girlfriend. She wanted to help Nate and his problem with his dad, but was turned down every time. Thus, the breakup. Allusions to other works Marshall is roommates with Rogerson, Caitlin's boyfriend in Dreamland. Ruby mentions she heard Rogerson has a record for "something about assault". This referring to his assault on Caitlin. Ruby moves to Wildflower Ridge, a neighborhood created by Macy's mother in