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Charlene "Cha" Solano is thirteen, stuck in the middle, and used to being invisible.
Her older brother Junrey is their mom's whole world. Her baby sister Frenchielyn has their dad wrapped around her finger. And Cha? Cha is just... there. The one nobody fights over, the one nobody remembers to ask about.
But being the middle child is the least of her problems.
Cha was adopted - brought into a family who thought they'd never have a child of their own after a terrible accident. She grew up believing she was enough. Then, on December 4, 2011, everything changed: Frenchielyn was born.
Suddenly there was a "real" baby. A "real" daughter. And Cha was left wondering where she fit in a family that already had its favorites.
This is a story about the space between being chosen and being loved, about a girl fighting to find her place in a family of three - even when it feels like there was never really room for her at all.