A ten-year-old Laura saw her father die. Now, six years later, as the final wounds are healing, she sees her mother suffer the same fate. With her only confidant out of town and too practical thinking anyways, her and her baby sister will take a dark route following a seductive drug-using-girl-selling stranger down into the bad part of town -- to the drugs, the prostitutes, anything one girl can do, to keep the two of them alive.

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION The Bro Code says to leave no bro behind... But what happens when you have to choose between love and friendship? ***** Nick Maguire would never betray his best friends, Carter and Austin, by breaking The Bro Code, and he knows they'd never do that either. They've got each other's backs. That is, until Carter's sister, Eliza, returns from Australia. Unfortunately, Eliza is basically incredible, and Nick almost immediately falls head over heels. The two begin to form an undeniable bond that crackles with electricity - and spells a whole lot of trouble. Nick is about to find out that codes are made to be broken. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]