History Literature / LockAndKey

* NotGoodWithPeople: Ruby, at least at first, due to an abusive childhood and constantly moving makes it hard for her to open up to people and lean on others for help. Part of her CharacterDevelopment

%%* AngerBornOfWorry: Jamie ends up ''pissed'' when Ruby skips school and gets drunk due to learning the truth about how her mother was keeping her away from

%%* AngerBornOfWorry:

* AdultFear: Cora and Ruby's situation was this. After leaving for college, Cora had sworn to get Ruby out and made the mistake of telling their mother this who uprooted the two of them and ran off. For years, Cora searched, only to lse the trail whenever she got close; when she finally found them 5 years before the story starts, her mother manipulated things to make the older sister think Ruby wanted ntohing to do with her and gave up. She's horrified when she realize that Ruby knew nothing of this up to including being invited to the her na dJamie's wedding and realized there and then, Cora should've gotten the police invovled.

''Lock and Key'' is a 2008 young adult novel by Creator/SarahDessen.

** [[spoiler:Nate's father, Blake who forces his son to help with his failing business despite it cutting into his school work and forced him to quit the swim team, costing him a scholarship for college. He also berates his son and is implied to be physically abusive even if Nate claimed it rarely went beyond yelling.

%% * StepfordSnarker: Ruby.

* Downplayed with Harriet and Reggie as we only see Ruby around them enough to notice it. She even [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritically]] becomes a ShipperOnDeck despite her annoyance about people about being the same with Ruby and Nate.[[note]]Course this is mainly after she and Nate got together[[/note]]
%% * FairWeatherFriend: [[spoiler:Peyton for Ruby]].

%% * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ruby and Peyton have some shades of this.
%% * TroubledButCute: Ruby.
%% * UnderwaterKiss: How Ruby and Nate share their first kiss.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Ruby and Nate even though the former denies anything is going on. Later when the two are dating, she thinks nobody knows only for Jamie to point out that
%% * Harriet and Reggie.

%% * LadyDrunk: Ruby's mother.

%% * AntiHero: Ruby.

%% * BrattyHalfPint: Gervais, but he grows out of it.

%% * AbusiveParents:
%% * Ruby and Cora's mother.
%% * [[spoiler:Nate's father, Blake]].
%% * TheAlcoholic: Ruby's mother.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted. Ruby suspects that her parents were trying to invoke this trope with her due to the large age difference between her and Cora, but it obviously did not work out; they divorced when she was five and things went downhill from there.

%% * BetaCouple: Harriet and Reggie.

%% * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Peyton]].

%% * CommonalityConnection: Ruby constantly lampshades how different she and Nate are, but they do eventually find something to bond over: [[spoiler: their respective abusive parents]].

%% * CoolBigSis: Cora.

%% * EveryoneCanSeeIt:
%% * Ruby and Nate.

%% * NotGoodWithPeople: Ruby, at least at first.

* ParentalSubstitute: Cora takes on a maternal role for Ruby, but Ruby isn't willing to accept it at first.

%% * CryCute: Happens to Ruby.

* %% * Ruby and Cora's mother.
* %% * [[spoiler:Nate's father, Blake]].

* %% * Ruby and Nate.
* %% * Harriet and Reggie.

* AbusiveParents:
** Ruby and Cora's mother.
** [[spoiler:Nate's father, Blake]].
* TheAlcoholic: Ruby's mother.
* AntiHero: Ruby.

* BetaCouple: Harriet and Reggie.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Peyton]].
* BrattyHalfPint: Gervais, but he grows out of it.

* CommonalityConnection: Ruby constantly lampshades how different she and Nate are, but they do eventually find something to bond over: [[spoiler: their respective abusive parents]].

* CoolBigSis: Cora.
* CryCute: Happens to Ruby.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt:
** Ruby and Nate.
** Harriet and Reggie.
* FairWeatherFriend: [[spoiler:Peyton for Ruby]].

%%* LadyDrunk: Ruby's mother.
%%* NotGoodWithPeople: Ruby, at least at first.

* StepfordSnarker: Ruby.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ruby and Peyton have some shades of this.
* TroubledButCute: Ruby.
* UnderwaterKiss: How Ruby and Nate share their first kiss.

%%* WithFriendsLikeThese: Peyton.

* LadyDrunk: Ruby's mother.
* {{Meganekko}}: Laney.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Ruby, at least at first.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Peyton.

Nothing to do with the very similarly-named [[ComicBook/LockeAndKey Comic]] or its [[Series/LockeAndKey Netflix Adaptation]].

* CinderellaCircumstances: Ruby comes from these; she has a poor home life that only gets worse after her mother runs off and abandons her. In something of an inversion of [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} the actual fairy tale]], Ruby is rescued from these circumstances in the first chapter and gets what most girls in her situation would give anything for--a better home, money, a new private school, and a cute neighbor who seems to take to her--but is initially resistant and uninterested to all of it.

* YourCheatingHeart: Ruby's sort of boyfriend Marshall cheats on her with [[spoiler:her friend Peyton]].

* BlackBestFriend: Olivia.

After being abandoned by her addict mother, Ruby Cooper is placed in the care of her long-lost older sister Cora and Cora's husband Jamie. Used to fending for herself in near-poverty, Ruby is immediately suspicious of her new affluent neighborhood, private school, and attentive guardians. With her future looking brighter, Ruby slowly adjusts to her new life of privilege-- and grows closer with Nate, a neighbor and classmate --and realizes that it is okay to let people in.

** Ruby's mother.

* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:Ruby's mother is reportedly found near the end of the novel, and for a little bit it seems like Ruby is thinking of finding her to confront her, but this never happens.]]

* DeclarationOfProtection: Cora to Ruby, who would step between her sister and their mother and take the brunt of her abuse. She even does this [[spoiler:when Jamie is yelling at Ruby for ditching school and getting drunk, Ruby looks up to see Cora standing in between them]].

* ParentalAbandonment: Ruby's mother abandons her when she's 17. Ruby's father is already long gone, as she only has a few vague memories of him before he suddenly left the picture. [[spoiler: Cora later reveals that he did initially try to provide child support and continue visiting him, but Ruby's mother dodged him and he ended up giving up as a result.]]

* UnderwaterKiss

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted. Ruby suspects that her parents were trying to invoke this trope with her, but it obviously did not work out; they divorced when she was five and things went downhill from there.

* ParentalAbandonment: Ruby's mother abandons her when she's 17. Ruby's father is already long gone, as she only has a few vague memories of him before he suddenly left the picture.