In the book, Someone to Love Me, written by Anne Schraff, Cindy was a freshman attending Bluford high school. Her mother was never home because of her new boyfriend, Raffie. Cindy did not trust Raffie and had a bad feeling about him the first day she met him. Raffie disrespected Cindy and called her names when her mom was not around. He tried to come between Cindy and her mom.

She never felt like going to school, instead she would rather stay home and watch TV. Her friends, Jamee and Amberlynn always looked out for her. One morning Jamee went over Cindy's apartment to get her to go to school. Cindy decided to go because she could not stand being alone in her apartment for another day. At school she was asked by her English teacher, Mr. Mitchell, if she wanted to draw for the school newspaper, the...