Lennox

Lennox, a character in the With Every Heartbeat book, is one of Dakota Winchester's best friends. Although she is mentioned in Chapter 2, she makes her first appearance in Chapter 3.

Appearance
Lennox has brown eyes, shoulder-length black hair which has a blue ombre, and fair skin. She wears a white shirt with string tie, blue distressed shorts and dark leggings, and a red plaid shirt tied around her waist. She wears a black choker and silver stranded necklace and bracelets.

Personality
Lennox is reserved, but has a morbid sense of humor due to the circumstances of her life. Mateo describes her as "the prickly pear in our fruit salad." Between cats and dogs, Lennox says she chooses lizards

With Every Heartbeat

 * Chapter 2: Hope Springs (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 3: Just Friends
 * Chapter 4: Falling
 * Chapter 5: Mourning After
 * Chapter 6: Making the Cut (Off-screen; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 7: Worried Sick
 * Chapter 9: Waiting Game
 * Chapter 10: The Hereafter
 * Chapter 11: The Send-Off
 * Chapter 12: Left Behind
 * Chapter 13: Matchmaker
 * Chapter 14: Life After
 * Chapter 15: Dancing in the Dark
 * Chapter 16: Meant to Be

Dakota Winchester
Dakota is one of Lennox's best friends. They both visit Mateo in the hospital every week, except when Lennox is out of town with her family. If you ask Dakota about their relationship, Dakota says they are more like siblings than friends. They met when they were all patients in the hospital together when they were younger.

When Dakota wants to film his/her application entry "Dark Pact", Mateo jokes that you were the only one to volunteer, not them. Dakota says their promise to help was implicit because they're friends. In Chapter 5, Lennox drags you with her to teach Dakota how to ride a bike. In Chapter 12, when Dakota breaks up with you, you visit Lennox and Mateo at Lennox's house. Lennox tells you that because she has known Dakota longer than you, that she is on his/her side but she won't stop you from venting if you need to. She explains that she went through what Dakota is going through when she had her leg amputated. It was the worst part of her time in the hospital so she understands Dakota's anger.

Mateo
Lennox knew Mateo first, before introducing him to Dakota. The three of them form the Three Musketeers, getting into various shenanigans in the hospital. In Chapter 3, Lennox pushes Mateo in a wheelchair against Dakota as they race down the pediatrics ward. They win the "Wheelchair 500-Foot Race" and Mateo and Dakota introduce Lennox to you. Mateo calls her the prickly pear in their fruit salad. In Chapter 5, Mateo tells Lennox to back off when you are mourning Gracie's death.

Your Character
You first hear about Lennox from Mateo and Dakota on your first day volunteering at Edenbrook Hospital. When you meet her in Chapter 3, you "confirm" her suspicions about you if you decline to participate in the wheelchair race against her and Mateo. In Chapter 5, she recruits you to help her teach Dakota to ride a bike.

In Chapter 6, when you are grounded for breaking curfew, Dakota, Mateo, and Lennox invite you to video chat, watch something on tv together and rag on it. It was how they spent a lot of their bad days in the hospital together. You have the premium option to join them or instead do chores. In Chapter 7, you have the premium option to convince Marlene (who Lennox has deemed "Nurse Ratched") and Danny to let you take Mateo out to a cat cafe on his day pass. If you do, you four play Plead The Fifth where Mateo says Lennox is a Slytherin if asked, or dreams of being an evil dictator.

In Chapter 11, if you shave your head in support of Dakota, she tells you that what you did was freakin' awesome. When you ask her about why she changed her attitude, she explains that she didn't trust you in the beginning. A lot of people can't handle what it means to be with someone like Dakota or Mateo or her, but you didn't bail when things got hard.

In Chapter 16, after Dakota's death, she gets mad at you for not calling or texting them and for closing yourself off from them. She understands you're mourning but she thought you were their friend too, not just Dakota's. You have the premium option to work through your feelings with her and Mateo.

Trivia

 * Lennox had an osteosarcoma in her leg when she was twelve. They had to amputate from the knee down. Since then, she's been cancer-free.
 * Lennox has two bearded dragons named Kodos and Kang.
 * In Chapter 11, Dakota and Mateo mention Lennox being an amazing athlete and her dreams of competing in the Olympics, to which she refuses, stating it's not possible with her prosthetic leg.
 * In Chapter 15, Lennox admits that she wouldn't mind dancing with Danny at the Edenbrook Prom; later, she pulls him to the dance floor.
 * In Chapter 16, Mateo and Lennox mention graduating next year (in 2021); thus they were juniors in high school while you and Dakota were seniors.
 * She sometimes visits graveyards and considers them 'a good excursion.'