Lying Hearts by Erin Trejo

I took over the role of President with pride in my heart.
I ran the club the way I thought our old president, Savage would have wanted.
I wanted this club to thrive, which it has.
Something was off though. My heart was missing something I didn’t even know it needed.
Ariel showed up lost and broken in her own ways.
Victim of abuse for most of her life, she still held a spark of life in her.
She came into my world and ripped it apart.
Her secrets are harder for her to accept than they are for me.
Our hearts made us feel things that neither of us was sure we could feel.
When all of her secrets come to light, I push her away for her own good but she pushes back.
That headstrong girl was never supposed to be a part of my world but now I don’t want her out of it.
Keeping her will come with a price.
Am I willing to pay it?