Classic bullying case. "Bystander" view, victim view, and finally, a more mature view many years after the scenes unfolded...
Always remember to love each other <3
14 year old Nina is your average school girl; loves to sing, read, write, has good grades, and tons of great friends. She doesn't have the perfect life by far, but she's pretty content. So when she notices quiet, awkward, s-s-stuttering Casey she just has to help her. After all, she is seemingly crying out for help with those inked words on that pink and orange flowery pencil pouch...
14 year old "Casey" is your not-so-average, nerdy, dorky, awkward but adorable, sweet, teenage weirdo. Quiet and reserved in school, or at least as an underclassman, the complete opposite outside of school. One day in creative writing class the teacher showed the class one of the student's stories. It was a peculiar story, with very familiar characters...and it was all wrong. Once simply oblivious and uncaring, now paranoid of people talking behind her back is added to "Casey's" adjectives describing her.
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.