"I'm fine just a little unsteady."
"I can see right through you. No your not, your hurt, fragile, broken, there's almost no way to fix you,-"
"Your so good at helpi-"
"But I'm going to."
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Kennedy Smyth is just not your normal 17 year old black girl. In her home, she's broken. Her parents abuse her and cheat on each other, she's forced to illegally box, and sell drugs for money for her parents, but still manages to keep straight A's in her school that she practically runs. She runs the school that goes by the name of Paramount High until a certain boy by the name of Oakley Holt comes and takes over. Soon enough all hell breaks loose, that hell gets even worse when they both find out they live next door to each other. It will be hectic, but they will come around at one point. Things down the road will be unsteady, but things will get better.
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.