Seven Sterling

" ' When you move, I move. You're the only one for me. '""--Seven to November in" Seven Sterling is a main character and narrator of Evergreen. He is the only child of Zachariah and Ann Sterling. He is also the boyfriend of November Nelson.

Seven is the perfect successor of his baseball star father. He was raised eloquently by Zachariah until his father left abruptly in the middle of the night, leaving a farewell note with no reason of his exit. Seven had to continue his baseball training alone, resulting in being placed in a baseball summer training camp by his mother while she tried to locate Zachariah.

Once Seven reached high school, his baseball skills reached its peak and he was picked first on the new team without any further inspection. Once Seven got to batting, Coach Burr was already awestruck and made him first in everything. Seven also used his athletics popularity in promoting his father's image as a "supportive dad," even though his father wasn't currently in his life.

When Seven found out about the dues to the water and electricity, he got a job at Mug's and secretly started paying for the bills. Once Ann found out, Seven willingly wanted to help his mother in any way possible to make her days easier, and to "have his only parent at home with him at night to eat dinner and watch movies with." Seven's life at home was his biggest secret he needed to keep, even from his middle school crush, November, until Zachariah returned home.