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After the fight, everyone picked a side.
Haley lost her best friend in a moment that keeps replaying, no matter how hard she tries to move on. The girl everyone called "difficult" isn't here to defend herself anymore, and Haley is expected to grieve correctly: quietly, quickly, and without asking any questions.
Adri didn't kill anybody. She just dated the boy who did. Now people look at her like violence is contagious, and even the person she trusts most isn't sure she deserves forgiveness.
As rumors harden into truths and summer blurs into something unrecognizable, Haley and Adri are forced into the same orbit, unwilling mirrors of each other, both carrying the worst day of their lives in different ways.
This is a story about grief that doesn't behave, girls who aren't easy to love, and what happens when surviving something doesn't make you better... just changes everything.