It's just a cut. It's just a scratch.
""What's that mark?"
"Oh, it was just the cat."
Just an excuse, just another lie, just as every day goes by.
"What's with all the braclets?"
"Just a fashion, why?"
Just a tear, just a scream.
"Why were you crying?"
"Just a bad dream"
But it's not just a cut, or a tear, or a lie
I'm just preparing for the fated day of good-bye.""
Lola Carmen is different. She's eccedentesiast (a person that fakes a smile) and is a proffessional at it. Everyday she walks into school, with a fake grin spread across her face. She doesn't trust anyone, everyone she was ever close to has betrayed her. In school, she pretends, she plays it off like the perfectionist she is. At home, that's where she reveals herself. But when a new student arrives at Rideview Highschool, with his dreamy British accent, stunning good looks, and charming personality, his popularity booms and it isn't long until he meets Miss. Popularity of herself- Lola Carmen. He sees past her perfections, and notices her fake smiles. He tries to get close to her, but all she does is push him away.
He could tell that quite place inside of her was getting louder, and he found himself falling for her as he's trying to figure out the mystery that lies behind the real life of Lola Carmen.
"Mi Never Deserve Dis Life"-- A Jamaican Teenage Story
32 parts Ongoing
32 parts
Ongoing
From she a 7, Arielle face pain. Her real father dead in a car accident-he was her safety net. Her mother spiral into depression, and not long after, bring een a new man-Trevor. From she turn 11, Trevor start fi watch her too hard, and touch her when her mother nah look.
By the time she a 13, she get bullied bad at school because she poor and quiet. No one know what she really going through at home.
At 14, she find out she pregnant-but she too shame, too scared fi talk. Her mother accuse her of being "slack" and "looking man." She beg her mother fi believe her, but she sickly and weak-minded, and she side wid Trevor. They beat her. They run her out.
Arielle get help from an old church sister who give her shelter. But when she try reach out again-her mother dead from cancer, and Trevor disappear.
Arielle now haffi raise a child, heal her trauma, and figure out if she can love or even trust anybody again.