Manipulation isn't always loud. Sometimes it's the absence of words. And even though you think you're doing the right thing, sometimes that isn't entirely true. Because isn't it easier to trust the lies than admitting you've trusted a monster...? TRIGGER WARNING: This story shows extremely toxic relationship and psychological abuse between siblings. It includes gaslighting, along with other manipulations. Don't say I didn't warn you.

A teenage girl struggles to distinguish reality and her imagination.

Charlie Dashwood arrives at the world's most elite academy with nothing but a scholarship and a past full of rejection, only to find himself thrust into a world ruled by heirs of empires, ruthless gossip, and a queen bee who wants him crushed. Yet from the moment he locks eyes with Jonathan Radcliffe-the magnetic heir to the richest family alive-Charlie begins to upset the balance. He humiliates the President's daughter in class, defies the brutal cafeteria hierarchy, and somehow lands himself in the school's infamous AOS rankings, a place no scholarship student has ever reached. Now, as the firelit tradition of the Bonfire looms-a night where reputations are made or destroyed-Charlie must decide whether he'll remain the outsider everyone expects him to be...or burn his way into legend.