Heat & Despair

Seventeen year old Espn Smith has been neglected by her father her whole life. He believes the reason her mother died is her fault causing him to feel instant hatred towards his only daughter, but how could she have helped when she didn't have a voice to stop her The only family that she has are her older twin brothers, Charlie and Orion ,who are super protective of her, and her best friends Bray, Henry, and Camille. But sometimes the people you love just don't understand the pain you feel inside until she met him.

To everyone who knows him,Alex Parker has the good life. Hes's way to good looking for his own good, cocky,popular,wealthy, super smart, and has great friends. He's Beacon Hill's football god who has led his team through all the state championships. How much better can life possibly get for one person. Behind closed doors he becomes a parent to his fourteen year old brother Tyler, since his father's death. His mother may as well be a ghost because since his fathers death she hardly gets out of bed. His life used to be perfect but he's filled with grief at losing both of his parents.
Alex is tired of pretending. It's time for him to release his pain onto someone because he needs to be strong enough for Tyler. But who can he talk too. Until one night in the school parking lot he sees his best friends little sister who isn't so little anymore sitting on the hood of his car with a skateboard. One car ride and Alex is sharing his soul with her.

But what he didn't expect was for her to understand. He didn't expect for her to shake his world with a dark truth of her own. As the two begin to get closer they begin to form a connection so strong that they may never let go.......