However, they eventually grew apart as Rue's drug use started to get out of control. Afterward, Lexi asked whether she felt 'really weird' or 'uncomfortable'. When Lexi was asked to the freshman formal by a student named Tucker Blake, she decided to try practicing French kissing on Rue. While attending pre-school, Lexi befriended Rue Bennett, and for many years considered her to be her best friend, even to this day. Although Lexi's childhood was very similar to Cassie's, she was often put aside by both her parents who seemed to prefer more her older sister than her.
Lexi was born to Gus and Suze Howard and grew up alongside her sister, Cassie Howard. And even at the time when she did get the courage to say something, she backed down. How she always been so passive, how she never had the courage to say anything.
