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Halley Cooke
Halley is the novel's protagonist, a sixteen-year-old girl struggling with her relationship with her mother and her new feelings for her troubled boyfriend Macon, as well as struggling to support her pregnant best friend, Scarlett. Halley is shy, gets nervous easily and had a hard time making new friends before she met Scarlett. Halley has long thick hair, and she tans easily. Halley is used to Scarlett supporting her emotionally, and when Michael dies and Scarlett finds out she is pregnant, Halley finds that she must be the "strong one" in their relationship for the first time. Halley feels throughout the novel that she is going through a transition from Old Me to New Me, which involves putting a greater distance between herself and her mother, starting a relationship with Macon Faulkner, and rebelling against the quiet, respectful girl she has always been. After Macon pressures her...
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