Better When You're Gone (A Waterloo Road Story)

​Being a Lynch meant one thing: survival. For thirteen year old Skye, that meant being the loudest, most difficult girl in the halls of Waterloo Road. But when a routine meeting reveals that the man running the school is the biological father who abandoned her mother, the music in her head turns to noise.
​From the violent shadows of her home to the sterile safety of foster care, Skye finds two unlikely lifelines: Mr Mead, the teacher who refuses to look away, and Mr Wilding, the man who hears the song hidden in her scars. But as the lights of a music college in America flicker in the distance, the darkness of her past, and a dangerous job in the town's underbelly, threatens to silence her forever.

Waterloo Road meets The Boys of Tommen with a Renee Rapp soundtrack.

Mentorship, Found Family, Slow Burn, Gritty Realism, Underdog to Star.

TW: Domestic abuse, Substance use, Alcohol abuse, and similar topics.

!Disclaimer! I do not own any of these characters other than my own. Boys of Tommen names and storyline is in no way mine, same for Waterloo road characters and Renee Rapps music. All credits go to the original writers/owners.