Hey all this is my second Higher Ground fic so be nice.
This is just some background info and a teaser. So if I get good reviews I will write the story if not I wont.

I don't own anything except the characters you dont know.
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background info: it's 2016
New Cliffhangers:

Asha Madison
Stats: 5'7, dark brown shoulder length hair, brown eyes, 16 yrs, born on 3-19-00. Been here for 10 months
Why here: Her parents died when she was 7 and her brother Lee who was 10. They were both put into foster homes together, because they didn't have any relatives that were living. After 10 foster homes, they were finally adopted when Asha was 14 and he was 17, By a couple in their late 30's Ali and Parker Scott. Everything was going good Asha was doing great in school, she had many friends and she was in a band with her boyfriend Jamie. When Asha's band had its first gig, her brother Lee was visiting on spring break from UCLA and had promised to be at the club where she was performing. He was running late and it was raining really hard. Lee was rushing and his car slipped on the road and crashed into a truck, which instantly killed him. Asha thought it was her fault because he was rushing to see her. Ali and Parker tried everything to convince her it was an accident, but she wouldn't listen. So to numb the pain she turned to drugs. Everything from pot to Acid, when Ali and Parker realized what she was doing they immediately took action by sending her to a shrink. He didn't help and her drug intake got worse so they sent her to Horizon as a last resort.

Kathrine Blake(Kat)
Stats: 5'9, light shoulder length hair, Blue eyes, thin, 16yrs,
3-13-00 been here for 6 months
Why here: her parents got divorced when she was 6 and her mother got custody. When Kat was 14 her mother died of cancer. So she moved in with her older sister Drew (19yrs), when Kat was 15 she met this guy named Billy who was 17 he had problems at home and was kicked out, so since Kat thought she was in love she talked her sister into letting him move in with them. Drew agreed. Well, one night when Billy and her were at a party together he asked her to go into one of the bedrooms to talk. She agreed, when they were in there he didn't want to talk like she thought, he started kissing her then when she said stop he hit her and threw her on the bed and raped her, she fought so he hit her unconcious. when she woke up it was morning, she got up and went home to warn her sister not to let him back in. But when she got there no one was there, and her sisters things were gone, as well as Billy's. She found a note saying how they ran off together. Since she didn't have any aunts or uncles she tracked down her father and lived with him. Kat fell into a deep depression and turned to drugs to help her through it. Her favorite was Ecstasy. When her father found out he sent her to Horizon.

Rachael DeRaven(Ray)
Stats: 5'8, Curly Blonde hair, Blue eyes with hints of yellow, slim, 16yrs, 3-10-00, been here for 1 month.
Why here: Rachael led a normal life loving parents, good home good student, When her parents got divorced when she was 14 she started cutting herself to relive the anger and sadness that was building up inside her. But when she met Geoff(15) he helped her deal with things better and she stopped, they started dating and everything went back to normal. About a year and a half later Ray and Geoff were driving and were at a stop sign and they were laughing and Ray leaned in and kissed him on the cheek a honking horn broke their embrace and signalled him to drive on. just as they were pulling out a car came out of nowhere and hit the drivers side hear on, Rachael ended up with a broken leg and some cuts and bruises, but Geoff was killed minutes before the ambulance got there. Rachael started cutting her self again, she was doing so everyday until her mother found her stash of razors and a blood stained shirt. She confronted Rachael and sent her to a psychologist, when that only made it worse, As a last resort they sent her to Horizon.

Renee Gorden (nay)
Stats: 5'5, long brown hair, brown/ amber eyes, slim, 16yr
4-19-00, been here for 3 months.
Why here: Renee is the oldest out of three, her father is a politician and her mother is a teacher. Renee is an excellent writer and has a great voice. But her parents completely ignore her and put all their focuses on their other to daughters who one is a singer the other a writer, even though Renee is better they don't pay any attention to her. Her friends tend to ignore her also, except a few who she mostly hangs out with. The guy she likes hates her and she has had a bunch of meaningless relationships which end in heart ache. She hates life so she has tried several times to commit suicide, but every time they find her and stitch her back up, or pump her stomach. Her parents just say she wants attention and they don't want to provoke it, they send her to their own doctor so the media won't know about it. After several failed attempts they sent her to Horizon.

Colin Boyer
Stats: 5'7, spiky brown hair, brown eyes, skinny, 16yrs. 6-11-99 been here for 8 months.
Why here: His father was verbally abusive most of his life so he turned to Alcohol and drowned his sorrows in that, when he was 14 he discovered pot and other drugs. When his father died he went to live with an aunt who noticed his acsesive drinking and drug intake, so she sent him to horizon.

Carl Jordan
Stats: 5'8 , brown/blonde, blue eyes, skinny, 16yrs, 10-20-00, been here for 9 months.
Why here: His parents died when he was 13, so he went to live with his uncle and his family. His uncle was a drunk and was constantly hitting his kids and Carl. So he turned to drugs and got into some fights and was sent to Horizon.

Philip Danson(phil)
Stats: 5'9, black hair, brown eyes, skinny, 16yrs, 12-15-00, been here for 5 months.
Why here: He is a very good computer hacker. When he got caught hacking into some school files, the court ordered him to either Horizon or to Juvie Phil chose Horizon. He also had a small pot dependency.

Those are the new cliffhangers. And the next part is the teaser.