"If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote." I look at her wondering how I once was friends with this wicked witch of the sluts.
"I don't care if you didn't come with a remote. I'm the one that runs this school now and you Mayleen are still nothing." She says staring back at me.
"I don't care what you are in this school. " I get closer to her and I'm only a few inches apart from her ugly face. "You think you know me but you don't. I'm not the same Mayleen I was when we were friends. And I'm totally not the same Mayleen I was when I was bullied. I'm a different Mayleen and you better watch out. Because you don't know me now."
*****
Mayleen Carson was the Queen of Heartsville High. She was gorgeous, intelligent, creative. Everyone loved her, every guy wanted her, and every girl wanted to be her.
Justin and James: The Bad Boys. James was the energetic twin, the fun one to be exact. Justin on the other hand was cold and never talked to anyone, and was only genuinely happy when he was with his best friend Jasmine Rodriguez, who was the only female in the pack so far. She was everything you look for in a friend. Loyalty, Honesty, Humor, Trust, etc. They all come from a dark past, but the only one letting it take over his life is Justin.
When Mayleen's best friend, almost a sister, accuses her and betrays her of something. Nesha drops Mayleen from being the Queen of Heartsville, to being the Loser. Treated like a punch bag and nothing more, Mayleen just wants someone there for her. Almost if a wish came true, Justin, James, Jasmine and their families move to Heartsville.
Can Mayleen, with her life a mess, and Justin, with a dark past overtaking his life, come together and help each other overcome their fears?
Katherine Reynolds and Erik Jones couldn't be any more different. White/black, Upper class/lower class, sweet and innocent/dangerous and corrupt.
Their lives should never cross paths. Their lives should be completely separate. They had no business knowing each other, other than the fact that they went to the same school. Even then, they had no correlations. They had no classes that were the same, they had no mutual friends, they had no reason to know each other. Somehow, their lives kept intertwining with one another and they found themselves slipping deeper and deeper into each other's life.
Erik always thought that Katherine was nothing but a spoiled brat with a perfect life, but soon he found himself realizing that her life isn't as perfect as it seems. Katherine always thought that Erik was nothing more that the rumors that were spread about him: a dangerous guy with bad friends. Soon she realizes that he would do anything for his family, no matter what the cost.
Can Katherine and Erik find a way to navigate their unlikely friendship or will they prove to be too different from each other. Will hate and intolerance win out or can love, acceptance, and understanding conquer all?