**CHAPTERS 1-19 ARE PRIVATE. GO TO http://trillparadoxstory.tumblr.com/ to retrieve the links to each chapter.** Can you love thy enemy? Can people really wear genuine masks? Chelle "Jah" Merinne is the daughter to Colonel David Merinne II and Elena Grey, the ultimate Army couple. Jah takes on the true role of being an Army brat; put emphasis on 'brat'. Having a tough past, she's rude and takes it out on everyone. Fed up with her apathetic and sociopathic ways, she's sent to an alternative private school called Mercy Hall by her ill father. Bring her attitude with her, she bumps heads with the one and only, Chresanto August. What happens when the tables turn and she questions her feelings about Chresanto? Chresanto the ladies man of the eleventh grade. Any and every girl wants him, but he plays hard to get. He likes to be around everyone; everyone except Jah. He hates her, and decides to plot to play with her heart. However, tables turn. When his old frenemy and wingman, Jacob Perez, comes to Mercy Hall with the intent to stir things up and get revenge, Chresanto is stuck questioning how he feels about Jah. Can he bring out the real her? Can the web of deceit Jacob creates bring these two into real love?

Hazel August got involved with the wrong crowd and now she can't get away from them. When Leon, the head of the little group she's in, orders her to kidnap that almighty Chris Brown, her whole life changes forever. She's in charge of watching their new prisoner but soon starts to fall for him as they grow closer to each other. But then things go the wrong way when Leon begins to torture Chris to the point where he could die if he doesn't get to a hospital soon. Can Hazel find a way to escape with Chris and her little sister or will all of them soon lose their lives?