Meet Isla Garcia, at the age of 9, Isla and her family traveled to the US in hopes of a better life, but 2 years later, Isla's parent's end up in a violent arguments and Isla's father hits Isla's mother, Her father ends up in jail for domestic abuse. Alone with her mother, Isla must find a way to help her mother to pay the bills and food,while dealing with discrimination and depression. Once Isla enters her junior year in her new school, Isla still struggles to speak english properly, leading classmates and teachers to harass her. But when Isla's father gets out of jail, he asks Isla's mother for another chance, believing he has changed, Isla's father moves back with them, only to find him back to his old self. Her father begins to drink heavily and starts beating Isla and her mother. As a result of the abuse, Isla suffers from depression and severe panic attacks.
Meet Noah Madden, the golden basketball player, the basketball captain and the most popular guy in school. Every girl in school wants to be with him. But under the handsome face of his, he has a very high GPA, he refuses to let people in, besides his guys. Noah sleeps around with different girls on the weekend and parties most of the time.
On the first day of Junior year, when Isla and Noah Madden cross paths, a forbidden love begins. Drama starts.
"I'll leave you alone." His words filled the tormenting silence, "After tonight you won't have to see me again, only in class and that's it."
My heart ached at his words, why? This should be a good thing, I wouldn't have to deal with Alejandro Rodriguez ever again.
So why... Why does the thought of him not being around hurt.
I stopped playing with my food and slowly lifted my head to look at him. He stared straight into my watery eyes. His face filled with regret and concern.
He stood up from his seat and walked over to me, squatting down to my level. "Hey, hey." He softly whispered his hands holding both of my mines, softly caressing them with his thumb. "Please don't cry, por favor." He reached a hand to my face and gently wiped the tears.
"I-I don't want you to leave me alone." My voice breaking and my vision filling with tears.
Layla Cruise, is the most popular girl in high school with a perfect life, people call her the Golden girl. Perfect curly hair, perfect boyfriend. However, thats what they see when she's at school. Remove the glam and glitter, wipe off the makeup and you'll find a trickle of bruises her boyfriend leaves her.
TW: this story contains strong themes (SA, Language, and sexual content)