I stare out the window, looking for anything suspicious. I hear footsteps approaching me from behind and stiffen.
"Are you okay, Sarah?," Michael asked, trying to hold my shaking hands. He's always been there for me. He always knows when my instincts are in action.
"No, I'm not. What if they find us?" I try to calm down, but to no avail.
"Sarah, they won't find us." He holds me close to his chest. He will always protect me. I almost fall asleep.
"I know," I said, taking a deep breathe. "I love you, Michael."
"I love you, too, Sarah." He holds me tight.
I'm wearing the leather jacket he bought me for my last birthday. I am 18. No family. Just my boyfriend, Michael.
My mom and little brother are safe somewhere far away. My dad is nowhere to be found.
My mom and little brother left me because I begged them to. I told them Michael will protect me. He would never let anything happen to me.
I have brown hair and brown eyes. I look like Bella Swan from Twilight
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.