Introduction
Alessia Brathwaite - 19 years old
"I don't want to have kids one day, and leave them because I'm too selfish, or believe they would be better without me."
Jelani "JJ" Levins - 20 years old
"You’re someone very important to me, and when I love someone, I make sacrifices for them. No matter what that could mean for me, so I can’t and won’t allow someone to mess with you."
Evangelos-Joel "Ev-Jo" Lavender - 19 years old
“Well, uh, sir…sorry, JP. I’m gay, like scared of women, gay. Your daughter and I are just friends.”
Anisha Compton - 20 years old
"You’re always caught up in one person or another that you allow how they treat you to determine how you treat yourself."
Ashir Brathwaite - 19 years old
"You can be all buddy-buddy with my sister, but with me? You’re an opp in here and the court."
Khalis DeSilva - 20 years old
"Don't worry about me, I'm just tryna be here for my boy."
Julian Pierce “JP” Brathwaite - 38 years old
“You have to survive. I will not outlive my children.”
Now that the characters have been introduced, some warnings are in order.
This novel includes themes of mental health issues, sexual assault, abandonment issues, eating disorders, and physical violence. There are mature scenes, whether they be sexual, discussions of the topics aforementioned, or on-page depictions. If any of these themes are triggering to you, please place your mental health first.
There are warnings on chapters that contain SA or mention it in detail. There is also a warning on physical violence.
Now that the heavy aspect is out of the way, I hope you enjoy the story! Please remember that this is a mature story, and all of it is a work from the depths of my mind. Please do not steal the story. And before you start, I would like to remind you all that this is not a UConn fanfic. The story just so happens to take place on the campus!
Lastly, the people in the pictures are more so just to have an impression of what the characters’ faces look like. These people, whom I wish I could identify other than Rebecca Ablack, are unknown to me as well as their heights, and as you will see, we have some tall, basketball-loving women in this book. Seriously, though, we’re locked in now, and there aren’t any more comments from me, for now, lol.
