All characters and events in this story are completely fictional. If anything seems familiar it is completely coincidental. All situations in this story come completely from my imagination. ******* Loyalty lasts a lifetime, but what's the point of being loyal if you're being left behind. **** The money is treating him right, but he knows she'll treat him better...He needs to get back to her, but is she the strong girl he left behind? Have the bricks broken her down or built her up?

(MUST FAN TO READ!!)Eve Johnson is trying to keep her faith through the death of her mother. Her burdens weigh her down as her father marries his pregnant mistress three months after her mother's funeral. Shortly after the wedding her stepmother's brother Joe moves in. Joe is an ex-con with an obssession with Eve and will make her his willingly or not. Eve finds out that her dear stepmother is blowing her father's money and stealing from their church, but try as she might she cant stand up to her father, who is turning agaisnt his daughter and treating her like a outcast. she prays for her life to get better but the days only become darker.Eve is sinking in a abyss of darkeness and just when she is ready to give up Jayden Williams catches her. Jayden Williams, an notorious drug dealer from the streets of Chicago, who wants to get out of the game while he still can. Abandoned ,by his mother, at a young age to raise his younger brother the streets welcome him. But now the game aint what it used to be anymore and he has to leave with his life and freedom while he still can, but the saying "If you live by the streets, you die by the streets" reigns true. No matter how hard he tries to leave his hustle, the streets hold him tighter. With his bestfriend fresh out of jail, a crazy baby mother, and his enemies surrounding him he has enough on his plate and leaving the game will only add to his troubles. But being with Eve, he feels one thing he has never felt before, happy. But how can he help make her life better, when his is so F@$#%d up? Will he beome the man that Eve deserves or will he become his worst fears?

Nina is an angry child. she has never met her parents and every other family she's had have rejected her. Her childhood has been filled with anger and depression. But when she decides it's time to find her parents, she discovers things that put her life so far into perspective. And the shocking truth behind the reason she had never met them.

Alaya O’Connor is a piano prodigy. Arianna O’Connor is a soccer star. With their futures relying on the care they take to uphold their talents, these twins aren’t left with much else to do. But when the stress becomes too much, Arianna runs away from home, and thus starts the first domino in a horrible sequence of tragedies that leaves Alaya an orphan, and blind. Struggling to pick up the pieces of her life, Alaya is moved to live with her aunt. Only a new school, new life, and no foreseeable future lies ahead. The accident that left her in a world of darkness also manifested in her mind, and left her fearful of the one thing that always brought her solace: her piano. After meeting Aiden and his sister, Danielle, Alaya begins to see that there is more to life than the sense of sight. The secrets that cripple them are nearly as appalling as her own, and the more she learns about the siblings, the more she learns about herself. Meanwhile, Arianna has no idea the calamities that have befallen her sister. But when the truth is revealed, so are secrets that some would rather be kept away from prying eyes.