SuitabookTrust and disclosure
Haley keeps an overwhelming secret because humiliation and peer pressure stop her disclosing what happened.
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Melody Carlson - Author
This is a relationship-centred story about a teenager navigating divided family life, a new school and an upsetting experience that becomes difficult to disclose.
Sixteen-year-old Haley's life is about to change. With divorced parents, she's allowed to choose who to live with. Tired of Mom’s restrictions (like no dating), she picks laid-back Dad, although that means she'll have to go to a new school. But even that situation starts to look up when hottie Harris Stephens flirts with her. And when he asks her out, Haley ecstatically accepts. Chalking up a mysterious warning about Harris to jealousy, Haley continues seeing him. But infatuation turns to devastation when Harris does something totally unexpected. Humiliation and peer pressure keep Haley from disclosing what happened, and with no one to talk to, her torturous secret is overwhelming.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a relationship-centred story about a teenager navigating divided family life, a new school and an upsetting experience that becomes difficult to disclose.
Haley keeps an overwhelming secret because humiliation and peer pressure stop her disclosing what happened.
Haley chooses her father’s more permissive home over her mother’s restrictions, accepting a new school as a consequence.
Haley accepts Harris’s invitation after he flirts with her, then continues seeing him despite a mysterious warning before the relationship becomes devastating.
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