{READ "Misery of You" and "Zones Barriers" BEFORE READING THIS}
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I hate this part. You know, the part where I am supposed to seem like the "bad guy". I hate it. Sure, I pick with her hair, come up out of nowhere, and maybe shove her once or twice. Yeah, but I'm not the bad guy here. If anything, I have a cause and a reason for what I do. Everything has a purpose. I can't get over her. I can't deny it and I hate it. I want to rip my head off right about now. Then again, it's like, at a point...
"You know, of all things", she mutters to me, "you're the worst person I've ever met."
"Why, thank you" I snort. I then press my finger under her chin to get her to look up at me. "I do try my best. Even if it pisses you off."
"It does."
I chuckle, "Success." Wink.
...Ah, God. I can't get over it. Crap, why?! Why can't I just end it all like some magician or switch lives with some other guy for once and win?! Ugh.
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.