In Newport Beach, a city in California, full of beaches, mansions, etc. Y/n is the most popular girl in high school (the third year). She's beautiful, outgoing, confident, fashionable, and always the center of attention. Everyone's always looking at her, but often it's just her body or her general physical appearance. She doesn't do very well in school, but she manages anyway. She lives alone with her father, Neil, and her mother is absent and hasn't been seen for years. They're from a wealthy family; her father is a very successful doctor. Y/n always seems interested in parties, boys, and social life. But she also has a deeper side that she never lets out, or that no one ever lets out. She's sometimes witty, affectionate, and sensitive, but she doesn't even know it. She's often with Marissa, her best friend. Marissa isn't like Y/n, but she always goes to parties with her or lets herself be persuaded. And then there's Seth, a good guy, a boy from the same high school who lives in a wealthy family, but wealthier than Y/n's. Seth is sarcastic, ironic, very intelligent, sometimes a little insecure, romantic, but he can also be impulsive and selfish. He's passionate about comics, video games, and music. He's always cracking jokes. Sometimes he talks too much when he's nervous but then he stops. Seth has been in love with Y/n for years, but she barely sees or pays attention to him. She ignores him but seth tries to talk to her every time, he insists.He's so in love that sometimes he fantasizes about her. He's always seen her as the perfect, beautiful girl, and once he tried to be with a girl, but after a week, he immediately realized that person wasn't Y/n, that she wasn't what he wanted. Seth never really stops having feelings for Y/n. Even though Y/n has never really spoken to him or seen him. And often when Summer casually approaches him, he gets nervous but he use his irony to seem sicure of him self. Seth is different from other boys. Seth had been seeing her since they were in third grade, when she read poems in class and her hands shook etc.. he observed everything, not like other boys who just wanted a pretty girl as a girlfriend. However, Seth always tries to talk to her when he gets the chance, even if she tries not to. Y/n never makes his life easy. She doesn't give him easy reactions, she doesn't give him immediate satisfaction, and she often turns her jokes around with a precision that forces him to reconsider every response. With him, she's direct, sometimes cutting, as if constantly testing him without openly admitting it. Seth, on the other hand, doesn't hold back. Where others would stop, he continues. Where others would let themselves be silenced, he retaliates. Their relationship is made up primarily of rapid-fire dialogue, exchanges filled with sarcasm, and a constant tension that never becomes an explicit declaration of anything. But often because Ryan and Marissa go out together a lot, they often find themselves having to stay together. Seth avoided social events before, but then Ryan joins his family because: Ryan had been arrested after a fight and met the lawyer Sandy Cohen, who is Seth's father. Sandy decides to help him legally and temporarily takes him into her home. But then, since Ryan's parents are unstable and can't think of him, Kirsten (Seth's mother) and Sandy welcome him as a member of the family. Seth wasn't happy at first, but then they become friends, almost best friends. Ryan starts hanging out with Marissa, Y/n's best friend, and they start talking all the time at parties, etc. (Anyway, Seth and Marissa talk casually, and Seth and Marissa are neighbors; they both have big houses next to each other). Since Ryan and Marissa are dating, this leads to Seth and Y/n often being together in various situations, because Marissa is Y/n's best friend.