"You don't need to pretend, Zoya!" Logan shouted over the radio noise.
Zoya's heart ached as she tucked in her lips, wishing she could turn back time to when she was a teenager. She was baffled by how the only man she had ever loved could cause her such heartbreak, one that couldn't be diagnosed under an X-ray machine.
In the past ten years, Zoya had invested her time and emotions into the marriage, neglecting her own needs and desires.
Her parents had never supported her relationship with Logan, advising her to focus on her studies when she was just 16. But she had threatened to run away, using her status as an only child to force them to accept her early marriage.
After graduating high school, Logan convinced her to become a full-time housewife. Initially, the marriage was perfect, with Logan taking her on dates, shopping sprees, and vacations. He swept her off her feet, and she abandoned her plans for further education.
However, as Logan became a successful business tycoon, their time together became limited. Whenever she complained about his late nights, he would wrap his arms around her and give her a gentle squeeze, silencing her protests.
Now, Zoya felt a tiny bump in her stomach, followed by a sour pain, but she remained silent. "I can go on a three-month trip," she bargained, her voice discreet but frail.
Logan's response was a dirty smirk, and he leaned forward, staring deeply into her eyes. "My sweet pretensions, Zoya, I don't need you to think for me or go on a vacation."
Zoya felt rejection crawling into her shattered heart, wondering if their love boat had crashed long ago. She remembered her father's fury ten years ago, her mother's attempts to pacify him, and how her father had blocked all communications with her after the wedding.
"Can't you give us a try?" she asked, her voice sounding like a plea.
Logan's lips moved closer to her ears, his words barely audible. "Taste changes, people move on." He shrugged expressively, and Zoya saw his mouth move but couldn't hear properly due to her own emotional deafness.
She crawled on the floor, begging him not to end their marriage, desperate to save it. Logan stepped on her hands, grinding on them in circles, and Zoya swallowed the pain.
He stumbled back, spat on her injured hand, and threw divorce papers on her lap. "It's over, Zoya. Keep the house; I don't want to be stuck in the disgusting memories you've forced on me over the years. Sign that, and I'll have someone collect it in the morning."
With that, Logan turned and walked out of the house, leaving Zoya shattered and alone.
After her father's death, Bo was never the same. She and her mother moved out of town to avoid the depressing town, but fate had something else planned for them. They decided to move back to Bo's hometown Shinpi.
Bo is struggling to keep her high school life on track but her past keeps interfering with her present. As she explores her hometown the memories she suppressed start to resurface and things start to get ugly when she tries to find more about her father's death.
While she's trying to figure it out she feels a constant presence wherever she goes will she be able to find out the truth hidden in her hometown?
Noah is known at school as an all-around bad boy, Part of him is broken and shattered, part of him is still holding on to what little things he has left. Its hard being able to "fit in" with the rest of the crowd at school. His mom passed and it was hard for him to get through it.
He's had one person closest to him, they'd known him for the longest time. They grew up with each other spending the majority of their time together. Learning about the real side of what actually happens behind the smile that hides everything. The darker side of life. Reality.
He had nothing left he gave up and wanted to move. He was going to. But then he met Isabella. Spending time around her changed everything about him.So, why is it so hard to let her go when it comes time to go?
Jessie is hopeless about finding love, after asking out the fourteenth guy she had a crush on, and being rejected for the fourteenth time, she gets disappointed and decided: love doesn't exist. Jessie's best friend, Rachel, feels sorry for her, she thinks Jessie deserves to be loved, after all she's pretty, kind and she's a girl any guy would want to get as his girlfriend, but neither Jessie nor Rachel understand why the guys keep rejecting Jessie.
Rachel gets very worried about her friend that she will have no other choice but to ask a favor from her brother, Nathan. She begs him to pretend he's in love with Jessie.
Nathan is too busy with work and college that he doesn't have time for love, so he finally agrees, since Rachel promises it will only take two months, She wanted Jessie to feel loved and that's all.
Rachel's plan backfires when Jessie falls madly in love with Nathan, and gets devastated to know the truth behind Nathan approaching her.
Her feelings take a very long time to heal, or maybe not healed after all.