Every high schooler says that high school is hell, but for an eighteen-year-old, Isla, it really is. For someone who is so sweet and pure she doesn't deserve the torment she obtains daily at school. Her social life is thrown down the drain freshman year when her ex-best friend gets rejected by one of the school's bad boys because he is interested in Isla instead. After three years of being bullied and not having a single friend, things start to change when the school's three bad boys decide they aren't going to allow Isla to suffer alone anymore. With the attention, Isla is receiving from the school's bad boys her ex-best friend wants to destroy her even more and bring down her new friends.
As things start to look up for Isla, tragedy hits her family and her whole world comes tumbling down causing pain and conflict between Isla, her family, and her new friends. With new responsibilities that no high schooler should have, Isla tries her best to make it through each day. Will her new friends stay by her side or will they turn out to be like everyone else?
With secrets, lies, hate, tragedy, friendship, high school crushes, fighting, and love will Isla be able to make it through her senior year, or will she let it bury her alive? **This is not your typical story**
Updates: Completed
Ranked #1 in #Newadult on June 14, 2022
Haley Jacobs is not your typical teenager. Her once perfect life, long gone. She has gone through hell and back, and is barely hanging on by a thread. She's not only running from her past, but she is also running away from Him.
Haley is strong girl and wants to be loved, but can't let people in due to fear from her past. Haley starts a new school hoping to stay invisible, but nothing ever goes her way. She is thrown in to a group with the school's five bad boys making people notice her. They slowly break her walls down revealing secrets that she is so desperate to hide. With each secret that is revealed, her life and those around her, are in danger.
Will they still look at her the same once they know her past? What will happen to her if He finds her?
#1 in hiding on 4/21/2020
#1 in hiding on 3/7/2020-3/22/2020
#2 in hiding on 2/27/2020 & 3/23/2020
#35 in Teen Fiction on 8/25/2020
#688 in Young Adult on 8/25/2020
#2 in boys on 12/20/2020
This book was formerly named "The Girl With the Dead Eyes"
(**Please give this book a chance. I'm not great at writing summaries.**)
This story contains sensitive content. I do not go into extreme detail though. This story does contain foul language. Please read at your own risk**