Ember has thirty-seven days to...A) Learn how to play the bass well enough to perform in a concert with over 500 people attending. B) Match her best-friend, who is only interested in the likes of Brad Pitt, with the school's soccer star. Whom her friend hates, with a passion. C) Figure out what, exactly, the whole of Crestview High is hiding from her. And make sure they don't find out what she's hiding from them.

[ Winner for the Freshman Fifteens Common Room Teen Mentoring Contest. ] Fire, fire, a thirst to slake, all my fair ladies have drowned in the lake. A curse and a girl with a destiny too knotted for words. [ Complete story available here: https://www.wattpad.com/98702566-common-room-a-short-story-anthology-destinata-by ]