The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks - Love for Passion... and Turtles

After Ronnie was convicted of the shoplifting felony, she met with her father on the beach. Her father was busy watching over an abandoned loggerhead turtle nest near the house, to make sure that a larger creature, such as a raccoon, doesn't come along and decide to eat the eggs. Ronnie and her father have their first productive daughter father talk with one another. Steve explains the story of the loggerhead turtles, and Ronnie thanks him for believing in her. But her father knows that he cannot stay out with the turtle eggs much longer, and the warm heart that Ronnie has within her, which she fails to fully show by her appearance and most of her actions, persuades her to act as a guardian for the turtles. She stays the night outdoors, and in the morning Will, who volunteers at the animal shelter, is called to scout out the turtle nest. Ronnie, recognizing Will, becomes irritated with Will, thinking that he was being irresponsible when the cage she had asked for wasn't put up to protect the nest.

But this leads Will and Ronnie to become companions to watch over the nest, and soon, Ronnie finds herself falling for the boy she had judged all wrong. She had figured he'd be a popular, self-absorbed person, when really his heart is tender, and caring. Although even someone as perfect as Will can make mistakes, he finds many ways to persuade Ronnie that he is in fact seriously interested in her. Will, previously in the story, constantly found himself thinking about Ronnie, but Ronnie had been protesting the thought of her even knowing him. Will: "The thing was, Will wasn't sure exactly why he was thinking about the girl. Particularly considering how little he knew about her. Yeah, she was pretty - he'd noticed that right off, despite the purple hair and dark mascara - but the beach was full of pretty girls... He's glimpsed a surprising tenderness beneath her rebellious exterior, ad it had piqued his curiosity (pg. 79)." Ronnie: "With this answer, she got the feeling he was trying to flirt with her, but she didn't know why. It didn't make sense - she knew she wasn't his type, and frankly, he wasn't her type either (pg. 127)."

It ended up that fate, as complicated as it is, brought them together, and soon, so it seems, Ronnie and Will were falling had-over heals for one another. Although they had just met each other about a week before, Ronnie and Will became deeply infatuated by one another. "If her weren't so damn cute, none of this would have happened... She shook her head, trying not to focus on Will's lean body and visible muscles as he chased the ball across the sand. tough to ignore, since her wasn't wearing a shirt. Maybe the rest of the summer wouldn't be so terrible after all (pg. 169)."

But I do predict that Will will end up making one of those large mistakes that usually happen in a love story, causing Ronnie and him to avoid one another for a longer period of time. Even though Will will struggle to understand what he can do to make it up to Ronnie, the two of them will end up back together in the end.