Since diary-type stories usually contain static characters, as the main character(s), or characters who don't really change over time, my teacher issued us a challenge. This challenge was to create a diary-type story with a dynamic character, the main character, or one who'd change his/her views over time and I accepted it. As such, hence the title of the story. Anyway, on the story description!
The story is about a ninth-grader, Ashley Winters, who is going to Rocky Mountain High, a private school. She makes new friends and enemies on the way, and needs to figure out life's problems,
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.