"What's wrong with you? You seem like you just got your heart broken by your girlfriend who is running away with a fifty-year-old man."
If it is in any other situation, Cameron would have laugh but now he is in too much pain that he ignores her sarcasm.
"I need your help," is all that he could muster.
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Hazel Ryder used to be a person that was always for everyone when they need a listener, given that she is gifted with the ability to read people and is an empath. She could read people by staring into their eyes and even sometimes, by a touch while at the same time transfer emotions into them.
But that was two years ago.
Now she is this cold girl that everyone knows about but is afraid of, resulting in her being called 'witch', 'freak', 'weirdo' and all the names that goes along with it...
But to Cameron's eyes, the new guy who had just moved there to finish his last year in Hillary High, he sees Hazel as a mystery. He is intrigued by her ability but scared at the same time. Cameron, with his charming smile and cheerful personality, hides some dark misery from his past and he is not about to let some mysterious so-called witch and her so-called ability to read people know about it.
Until he accidentally grabbed her one day when she dropped something and she saw a vision.
She ran away, of course, horrified by what she had just saw.
He wants to know why, at the same time he wants to forget everything and just lives his life normally.
Then one day his past comes haunting back at him and he could only think about one person in his mind to ask for help.
So let's just say it is a surprise for Hazel when she finds Cameron at her doorstep, practically begging her to read him.
This story tells about friendship, family, society, empathy and love... so hop right in.
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.