Loan Shark
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Last published Thu, Nov 21, 2013
Everyone has problems in life! Everyone deals with the problems in their lives differently.
-> Some will go to the extremes
-> Some will just deal with them quietly
-> Some will just try to ignore them, hoping they will go away,
-> Others do all three [not necessarily in that order]
Maya is your average teen girl; but already has gone through so much in the past few years of her life...But things are about to go from bad to worse, when her dad mixes with the wrong sort of people...
Re-united with her old love Liam, brings about more trouble to her life, when his run-away dad comes back only to do a runner again... Leaving the two teens in desperate times...
Will Maya and Liam ever have a drama free life, or will they forever be in Liam's Dads debt??
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