The past holds many great things that can be used as a lesson, but when there is a secret it can nearly kill the person that is holding it. For two years Danny Desai has kept a secret that only one other person knows. Jo Masterson, the daughter of the chief of police and one of Danny's best friends, was the only one that knew about Danny's secret. However; the only reason that Jo knows the secret is because she was with Danny when the incident occured, and it has been haunting the both of them ever since the moment it happened.
Two years had passed since the faithful day that made Danny and Jo have a closer connection than they ever thought they would. Two years ago Danny Desai, who had been accused of killing not one person but two people, saved Jo's life when his secretive and insane father, Vikram Desai, nearly pushed Jo off of a cliff. Jo, being the chief of police's daughter, knew that Danny had done it in not only self defense, but also to save Jo from being thrown to her death. She knew that her dad would understand, even though he would be a little biased.
Jo wanted to tell her dad, but Danny was not going to go back to jail and he made that clear to Jo. Danny had went to jail at the age of 11 after Vikram killed Danny's aunt with a jump rope and then convinced Danny to take the blame for it. Five years later when Danny was 16 he was able to leave juvie and he began school at Green Grove High School. It took a while but some people in the school started to warm up to him, especially after he was cleared as a suspect in Regina Craine's murder.
When Danny moved back to Green Grove his friendship with Lacey and Jo started to improve but they quickly noticed that it was never going to be the way it was before Danny's aunt was killed. The friends had many ups and downs, but they always there for each other. Then, while he was on the run for Regina's murder, Danny came clean to Jo and Lacey. Danny told his best friends that he had never killed anyone in his life, but it was his father who had killed his aunt Tara, and that he probably had something to do with Regina's murder.
Knowing that his father was not dead like he originally thought he wanted to meet up with his father. Jo went along with Danny to meet his father and it all went downhill from there. Danny and Vikram started arguing about what had happened in the past, and noticing that Jo was trying to call someone Vikram pushed Danny out of the way and started chasing Jo. Running for her life, it seemed like she had been running for hours, but when she reached the edge of a cliff she knew that there was no where else to go. When Vikram came he started to push her off of the cliff, but then Danny grabbed a long log, after being pushed away from his father a second time, and swung it into his father's body, pushing him over the edge of the cliff and saving Jo.
Saving Jo's life only made her love for Danny grow a little more, but she knew that Danny and Lacey had something going on. They were both crazy about each other, and Jo couldn't live with knowing that their relationship was destroyed because of her. Pushing away all of the feelings she knew that Danny and Lacey belonged together.
Not to long after Vikrams death was homecoming, and Lacey convinced Danny to not only go but to go with her. Besides, he only wanted to go with her but he knew that he could never go to those things like a normal person would. To many people, like Regina's best friend Sarita, Danny was maybe cleared of Regina's murder, but he was not cleared of his aunts murder.
Now it was two years later and Danny and Jo had continued to keep the secret of Vikram's death between the two of them. Lately though, it's been driving Jo crazy and she wanted to tell her dad. After all, she knew that it was the right thing to do.