❝ 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑢𝑠? ❞ ❝ 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑢𝑠. 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡... 𝑜𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝑊𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒. ❞ ❧ 𝐴 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟. ❧ 𝐀𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞: 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐱 𝐟𝐞𝐦!𝐎𝐂 𝐉𝐢𝐧𝐱 𝐱 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞!𝐟𝐞𝐦!𝐎𝐂 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 1 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: December 5th, 2021 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 1 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝: July 9th, 2022 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 2 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: November 19, 2024 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 2 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝: ?

Juliette Smith is aware that everything she does is on borrowed time. Her popularity, her relationship with her father, with her friends... all of it is on borrowed time. Her existence as she knows it is so fragile. With the revelation of one secret, all of it could go up in flames, but there's never been any reason for her to disclose it, and there has been every reason for her to hide it; it protects her image. Esme Panchak is, by definition, a poison to her image. She is everything that Juliette isn't. She's undermotivated, crass, and unapologetically her own person. She's everything that Juliette has trained herself to loathe, and everything she has successfully avoided for three years... but she's enchanting, enticing. Whenever they're together, she can feel her grip slipping bit by bit. So, when Juliette ends up stuck with Esme as her lab partner, she realizes just how quickly the secrets she's trying to outrun can catch up with her.