Given Up
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  • Reads 71,004
  • Votes 3,199
  • Parts 45
  • Time 7h 29m
Complete, First published Mar 07, 2019
Fifteen-year-old Kyle Clark just wants to be left alone.  

No one seems to have gotten the memo.  

Everyone just wants him to talk about his Mum: his friends, his teachers and definitely his long lost Auntie that he now has to live with.

He tries to hide but manages to be pulled into a friendship with a new girl at school, Cassie.  She is passionate about dancing and it reminds him of his love for Karate.

But that was his old life:  Karate has too many bad memories for him now.

A friend he made in foster care, Diego, helps him forget the past, but he has his own secrets too. 

As Kyle battles with the past, and how he fits into the world now, will he learn to trust again?
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