A school in an underprivileged neighborhood is shut down, and the city has no choice but to send the students to a different school across town. The only problem is that the school is in an affluent neighborhood, and the two sides of town have a deeply entrenched fear and hatred of each other. This is a modern telling of Romeo and Juliet, the story nearly everyone knows, but flipped on its head. A story of Love, Hate, Growth, and everything in between. Was Atlantis doomed to fall from the beginning, or was its ruin due to a series of preventable events? Can Love beat out Hate? Is it possible to grow in a world that seems to be determined to tear you down? Do any of these questions harbor your thoughts? If so this story will speak to you and connect with you in a way that you'll never forget. This story does contain: Censored curse words Adult situations A new chapter will be uploaded every Sunday. The cover is a painting by David Walker, a London based artist.

"Why do you guys want to be my friends so badly?" I threw my hands up in the air. "Because you're different from others." Jaden piped up "Yeah, and I'm guessing that you haven't had friends in a while. Don't you want you're last year to finish with a bang by being with us?" Jordan spoke "And by bang, do you mean drama and attention?" I asked "We don't know. It all depends how this whole thing happens." Dylan shrugged "I don't know." I sighed. "Maybe we could I mean, but we can't, but -" "But nothing. Is it a crime to just be friends?" Alex asked exasperatedly "OK, whatever, let's try this..." I gave in. I think I'm going insane... •×•×•×•×•×•×•×•×•×•×•×•×•×• Marnise Hudson is a 17 year old girl that has a difficult past and she is also an outcast. After an incident that happened two years ago, she closed off all her friends including her beloved stepsister, Tasia Skye. Now two years later, she meets four boys; Jordan and Jaden Adams, Alex Hernandez and Dylan Peterson. They all become friends. But as the year progresses, she finds out something about one of them and that one thing that she did not know then leads to anger, tears and frustration along with a secret that they all keep that costs her physical pain. She also has one tiny little secret that can cost her entire scholastic façade. Not only that happens, she later finds some secrets that have been kept away from her. Will she be able to handle all these things that have been hidden away from her? Stick around and find out...and you will find out that she is different but she isn't the only one that's broken.