~The Tree at the Edge of the Schoolyard~ Ace Merrill x OC

John Merrill and Betty Martin had been close as long as the town could remember. A little blonde white boy, angry and aggressive like his father walking around town hand-in-hand with a doe-eyed black girl.

Growing up hand-in-hand, outcasts in a town full of abusive parents and their asshole kids; them against the world, just begging for a happy ending.

Warning: This story contains depictions and themes of abuse, racism, bullying, and other offensive themes