Prologue:

My name is Miranda. My friends call me Mandy; my family, Manda. I'm just a normal sixteen-year-old girl, but I don't know much about my real family or where I'm really from.

All I know is that I was adopted into the Peña family when I was about five years old. I love them more than anything in this world, especially because they never treated me like I was. They cracked jokes about it once in awhile, but I didn't care, mostly it was because I went along w/them.

As much as I loved them, I was closest to Carlos. He saved me from drowning not long after I arrived & we've been stuck like glue ever since. He can be overprotective at times, but I love him.

I could never do anything to disappoint him, no matter what it could be...but how can I listen to him & my heart at the same time? He means the world to me, but my world is someone who doesn't seem to notice me.