Skie Barrington was ready for a normal summer when 8th grade let out. He was ready for the beach, coming out to his parents and transitioning, arcades, shopping, sipping on bubble tea while gossiping with his friends... he was ready for everything "summer" had to offer. His typical summer, anyways. He didn't know, however, that this summer would not be like any other...
Story information: this story is based off of an oc I made. Skie is a pretty common name, so I chose it for this character and my own online name. Skie is genderfluid. Genderfluid means, according to google, "...a person who does not identify as having a single unchanging gender." Basically, a person just don't identify with one gender, and it's always changing. They could feel like a girl one moment, non-binary the next day, and then maybe a boy in a month! So it's clearly something that, if someone isn't accepting of the LGBTQ+ community, this could confuse them quite easily.
!!Trigger Warning!! There will be some cursing! I'm setting this to "mature" because apparently the topic of sexuality is considered mature by Wattpad.. otherwise, this should be okay for kids younger than 13 (people younger than 13 have heard a few curse words before, right?).
Aurora's life had always been about survival, each day a quiet battle against fear and pain. When her stepfather was finally arrested, she thought the fight was over. But leaving one dangerous world meant stepping into another-one she didn't fully understand.
Now, she's living with seven older brothers she barely knows, their lives a tangle of secrets and shadows they never speak of. Their house is loud, protective, and filled with rules she's afraid to break.
For Aurora, it's a new kind of survival. For her brothers, it's a chance to keep her safe-no matter what it takes.