Close Yet Apart

"Hey. I can tell that you're new here. I'm Elizabeth Aguilera but you can just call me Liz. What's your name?"
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"Hey. I didn't get your name"
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"I need you to do something for me"
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"Didn't your parents teach you manners? Or you've never been told NEVER hit a girl"
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"I'm really sorry Hazel"
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"Do what? It was just a mere prank. I didn't expect her to almost die"
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"Before we start arguing about who had the most bags and shit. Let's go see Hazel. She's probably bored and alone now"
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"Mama, do I have to go with you?"
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"Oh my God! W...wh.. at?....h..hhow?"
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"Thank you all for coming. My sister is definitely not dead just resting in eternal peace. She will forever be living in our hearts. She will forever be remembered"

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Hazel Anike Brown, a fifteen-year-old girl moves from California to Chicago with her British mother and Nigerian father. She has a traumatic past which causes her to push people away-even those who try to help her. She joins a new school in Chicago and makes a few friends.

She's finally having a good life but with good things as well as bad things comes a few problems. There are friendship situations to be taken care of, insecurities to get past, health issues to be diagnosed, fights to get into and resolve, surprises to be planned, people to be rejected, a jealous and almost psychotic schoolmate and revengeful people from a not-so distant past seeking blood or something similar to it.

What happens when the life-draining, heart-wrenching, heart-warming, tea-spilling drama crashes in, in full force? Will they allow the situation of things break them, mould them or kill them?

Let's find out as we dive straight into the life of Hazel Anike Brown...