I started writing this under the working title of Our Secret Lives. Here's the prologue.
Logan Westenkamp used to just be a ordinary teenager. He was fifteen, nearly sixteen, lived in Long Beach, California, and used to never get in trouble. Emphasis on used to, but more on that later. But as he grew older and started thinking for himself more, not accepting everything he was told, he wanted more freedom. And that's when the problems started.
Abigail "Abi" Brand had a common bond with Logan. They were both German-American, and both had parents who were Jehovah's Witnesses. And they both hated that. Abi's German accent was strong, like Logan's, and it made the two stand out in school, and sometimes it made the cool kids pick on them. But what really got the two teens bullied was the religion. Both Abi and Logan didn't want to be part of the Witnesses. But you couldn't leave the religion until you were eighteen, and both would be stuck for a bit longer until they were old enough. Why didn't they like it? Well, that will be explained later.
Tara Hill was the opposite of Abi. She was popular in school, one of the 'cool girls'. All the boys wanted to date her. And most of the girls envied her good looks and rich family. But what they didn't know was that she was a Witness too, albeit secretly. And she wanted out just as much as Abi and Logan did. Tara, like Logan, just wanted freedom; Freedom to date, freedom to wear what she wanted, and most of all, freedom to choose her own religion.
Demetrius "DJ" Jones wants to fight in the UFC one day. He practices in secret, hoping to one day join his favorite fighter, TJ Dillashaw, in the Bantamweight division. But with his parents causing problems for him, he may have to give up his martial arts for good.
Jeremy Zeller, the school's best athlete, is in the same position as DJ. Jeremy grew up loving hockey and hoped to one day play in the NHL, but after being forced off the hockey team by his Witness parents, he learns the hard way that life isn't always fair. With a junior hockey contract on the line for the young star, it's either convince his parents to play or do it in secret.
Finally, there was the quiet girl. Amity Morgan, the one no one knew anything about. The girl who didn't have friends, partly due to Tara and the other popular girls.
But when things get tough with their parents, all of these teens band together, living a secret life where they have the one thing they want: freedom.
