disclaimer; unlike all my other stories,this will not be a discipline story.
Waylyn Justin is a 16 year old teenage girl with kind of a sad life. After her mother left, her father went off into the military, leaving Waylyn to stay with her grandmother, aunts and cousins. Waylyn is the blacksheep in the family, being the youngest eldest cousin, and being who she is. She meets a new boy in school, Nolan, whose kind of a nerdy oddball kid but she takes a liking to him, unexpectedly, but Blake (the football jock who doesnt take no for an answer, demands she be his instead).
with only a smartphone, coloring books, an old laptop and an old computer upstairs, a basement bedroom, this is Waylyns life.
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.