He Was Never Supposed To Look At Me

Everybody notices Amara Johnson.

Not because she's popular.

Not because she's loud.

But because she's the girl nobody understands.

Dark-skinned, quiet, and carrying secrets heavier than her backpack, Amara spends her senior year trying to survive high school without falling apart.

Then there's Mateo Rivera.

The funny, charming Hispanic boy who's been her best friend since middle school.

The boy who always knows when she's lying.

The boy who starts looking at her like she's more than a friend.

What starts as friendship turns into something dangerous when jealousy, rumors, exes, and an obsession neither of them expected threatens to destroy everything they've built.

Because sometimes the people who love you the most can become the ones who hurt you the deepest.