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Goldfish Bowl

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Parts 26
Time 4h 17m

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The last thing Alisha ever expected to do the summer before heading to university was volunteering at a juvenile prison, and too bad her pastor father is hell bent on making her do it to cover the scandal rocking his home and church.

August used to be star student and beloved son until he murdered his step father and gets put in Mary Slessor Youth Detention Center to rot until he is an adult to stand trial properly. Too bad he is already counting down to the days he gets to kill himself and he's not going to let anyone talk him out of it, or fix him, not even Alisha, the girl he once knew.

Things don't go as planned for Alisha, hearts get broken, dreams get dashed, but life must go on, even if she doesn't want it to.All Rights Reserved

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It has always been Larai's dream to go to school and become someone prominent in future. She dreams of meeting her Prince charming. She desires true love, but in a community that relegates girl's education to the background and embraces child marriage? Things prove to be even more difficult than she thought it would be when she discovers she had already been BETROTHED to a man who is old enough to be grandfather, since birth. She fights so hard to change her fate, but how strong is she, a frail, timid and naive teenager against an entire community? Will she eventually wave the white flag? Daily updates 🥂 Started 14th July 2021 ©deey_jah2021

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BETROTHED ✓

It has always been Larai's dream to go to school and become someone prominent in future. She dreams of meeting her Prince charming. She desires true love, but in a community that relegates girl's education to the background and embraces child marriage? Things prove to be even more difficult than she thought it would be when she discovers she had already been BETROTHED to a man who is old enough to be grandfather, since birth. She fights so hard to change her fate, but how strong is she, a frail, timid and naive teenager against an entire community? Will she eventually wave the white flag? Daily updates 🥂 Started 14th July 2021 ©deey_jah2021