Nina Rosario, the picture perfect girl. She got every scholarship, saved every dollar. The first to go to college. Now, considering dropping out of school, liking the man her father disapproved of, and struggling with a mental illness, she tries to keep it all a secret.
Benny Jackson, the boy with an eventful past. He was abused, fostered, left to die. Until Abuela Claudia took him in when he was 13. Now, working for Kevin Rosario, liking his boss's daughter, and struggling with self harm, he tries to keep it all a secret.
Vanessa Olivo, Nina's best friend. She was raped, called a slut, left with no choice but to get an abortion. Now, dating a someone who wants to go back to Dominican Republic, falling in love, and struggling with PTSD, she tries to keep it all a secret.
Usnavi De la Vega, a young man desperate to find his island. Now, dating a beautiful girl, falling in love, and struggling with finding where he belongs, he tries to keep it all a secret.
But it's not just the four of them who have secrets. It's the whole barrio. Once one comes out, how long will it take before they all do?
Hate; feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone or something)
Carter Shay is a seventeen year old girl who's grown up with everything handed to her in life, her family has money, she has a nice car. She has designer clothes. Great parents, goes to a great school. Great friends, popularity. But she has a secret as to why she gets everything she wants. Yet she doesn't let that stop her from acting like a teenager, from mood swings, to making enemies. Especially enemies, specifically Noah Miller.
Noah Miller is a teenage boy who's worked for everything he has, yeah his family has money, they appear as a perfect family to the public eye. But what happens behind closed doors stays behind those doors. As one of the most popular guys in school, guys worship him, girls drool over him, and he lets it happen. Except her, he hates her. Whether it's the feud their families have, or just that fact that Carter Shay is everything that he hate's.
They compete when it comes to anything, assignments, sports, pranks. It's not the 'I'm messing with you because I'm actually in love with you' It's the 'I absolutely despise you'. When they're forced to work on an assignment together instead of competing with each other, secrets come out, relationships start forming, and heart's get broken.
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