Brie is a typical teenager.... Isn't she?
She is a Catholic school eighth grader. She loves watching soaps with her mom. She wants to be an actress and go to an actor's high school next year. She has feelings for a girl in her class (but is confused as to those feelings) so is very confused about her own sexuality.

Brie's mom is a very strict Catholic and Brie finds it hard to interact with her while she's feeling confused. How can she ever come out to her family?

I think Brie is a very normal teenager.... She's sullen, she likes to argue. She's just going through something that she feels like no one would understand. I really liked her progression of finding herself.