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I'm a cheerleader. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, what's wrong with me? Am I a bitchy cheerleader?
No, I'm not. I'm a normal girl. I'm just seventeen year old Alice Jasper; Long black hair, pail complexity, make-up less face, light blue eyes, skinny body, and five foot two and a quarter.
Yes, I count the quarter of an inch, it makes me seem at least a little bit more taller.
The reason I'm in cheer is simple, I needed to lose weight. I wasn't always a eighty-nine pound flyer. I used to be over one seventy. Yeah, I know. I was fat. I'm not proud of who I was so I decided to take on cheer. Not only did I lose weight, I got accepted into two great schools and went from loser to we-know-you-exist-but-we-aren't- going-to-be-mean-or-nice-so-we-aren't-going-to-do-anything. People know who I am because I'm a flyer. But I used to be bullied. Thank God that's stopped.
The one thing I hate about cheer, is that everyone on the team is dating a player from the football team. Everyone except me. If I could have my pick, I'd pick Jason Harper, the quarterback. He and Caleb White are the only single players. Yes, they are single, they are players on the team, and they are actual players. Or man-hoes. Whichever one suits you.
They don't even so much as glance in my direction. But it's okay. I like it that way.
I met Brinley Tills when I was in pre-school. We've been best friends ever since. She goes by Brin. She is also a cheer leader. The squad captian to be exact.
Alex Gold is my other best friend. He didn't come along till fifth grade but he's fit it. He's a Bandgee; a Band Geek. That's what we call them. He loves music and he loves to draw. He's like Pisco.
Life was the same as it always is here in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Same as always in GrandVille Highschool, too.
But it all started when a football came flying my way.
Ending with a blindfolded kiss.
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.