Growing Hurts: A Short Story Novel

Kelly Jackson is a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl from Cleveland, Ohio. Her best friend Iris and her boyfriend Mikal are the closest people to her; her mom on the other hand, a drug-addicted prostitute barely acknowledges her presence. Despite her relationship with her mother and the lack thereof with her deceased father. Kelly keeps an ambitious and optimistic outlook on life. But one encounter on her way home from a party changes Kelly's life forever.