Weathering the Storm Series by Ashley Amy

In history, we learned about the fall of many great leaders. Some happened from unchecked egos, losing wars, or betrayal of someone close to them. All fit the beginning of mine.My life only knew the loss of my father before they began taking everything away from me, stripping me of my power in our school. Graduation sat on my horizon with my cushy life as the most popular girl in the school who had everything… until I didn’t... moreIn history, we learned about the fall of many great leaders. Some happened from unchecked egos, losing wars, or betrayal of someone close to them. All fit the beginning of mine.My life only knew the loss of my father before they began taking everything away from me, stripping me of my power in our school. Graduation sat on my horizon with my cushy life as the most popular girl in the school who had everything… until I didn’t.How did they make me fall, you ask? Well, I can’t remember much because I’d been drugged and staged for everyone to believe I cheated on my boyfriend. But that wasn’t the only thing that happened to me when I couldn’t get away.Now as the rotten apple in their eyes, I faced the harsh bullying and ridicule they served me as I tried to recover and restore my memory from that night. I wasn’t the kindest to those below me, so I didn’t have a safe place within the school.It took me seeking refuge in someone my frenemies feared more than me to have an ounce of safety, but my pick led me to the most notorious bad boy of our school who had his own rap sheet and juvie record. He’d been someone I bullied, so he didn’t help me out of the kindness of his heart. No, I had to pay him. He wasn’t the only surprise now helping me as my stepbrother turned off his a-hole switch to notice something wasn’t right with me.Having the two most unlikely allies I thought I’d have, I just had to survive the last three months of high school. But my former friends went to great lengths to make sure I never stopped falling. Drugs/being druggedAlcoholAssaultRape with flashbacks (some graphic later on)Rape kit done by a doctorHeavy bullying (from a harem member but mostly outside the harem)Harem members in different relationships but not while with her (besides within the harem members)Depression and suicidal thoughtsCliffhanger (Inside there will also be other major triggers for the series that will spoil the story and future books. Read if you need to) less

Life, as we knew it, was like a pendulum. It swung back and forth between life but skimmed over death. Death didn’t sit on the other end of life to tick back and forth with.No, it sat at the vertical bottom, for whenever our clock ran out of movement. Our life choices kept brushing us with the taste of darkness, but we never knew when our pendulum would stop… unless we broke it ourselves.But even then, death wasn’t certain. I, Sadie Landon, attempted suicide, but I failed to succeed... moreLife, as we knew it, was like a pendulum. It swung back and forth between life but skimmed over death. Death didn’t sit on the other end of life to tick back and forth with.No, it sat at the vertical bottom, for whenever our clock ran out of movement. Our life choices kept brushing us with the taste of darkness, but we never knew when our pendulum would stop… unless we broke it ourselves.But even then, death wasn’t certain. I, Sadie Landon, attempted suicide, but I failed to succeed.Now, I had to live with my brush of death like I didn’t miss it, even when my life spiraled even more. less