Annie has been fighting her entire life. Tired, warn down, effectively broken she had given up trying to fight. She was in most ways a complete shell of herself.
Now in her senior year, she was forced to attend in person by her therapist which was the absolute last thing she wanted to do.
Knox was always running. Running from his family, his friends, and his future. The only thing he wasn’t willing to run from was her. Annie was his and he was going to make sure she knew it.