★★★★★★★★★★★★ !!CURRENTLY ON-HOLD!! malachi barton x oc

everything was going perfect for seventeen year old singer-songwriter mariana ramirez. she was dating the internets favorite boyfriend malachi barton, she just released her second album, LIKE I DO, her and her friends are a part of their schools advanced natural talents (a.n.t.) program, lives in the best city in the manhattan, new york. life was perfect. until ICE showed up at two am knocking down their door to take mariana's parents back to colombia, despite them having their citizenship. when mariana is forced to live with the family next door, her parents friends: the rosses, will she survive living in a house with people who don't even know the basic facts about her but are trying to control her life?

Two teen actors from longtime family friends- Malachi and Nina- can't stand each other. Until his family moves in while their new house is being built. Against the backdrop of a tense world, they clash, surf, and slowly start to see each other differently. This is 2025, and their generation isn't built for drama-except maybe the kind between them.