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A YA Contemporary Drama Set in a Fierce All-Girls High School in Osaka
Seventeen-year-old Ayumi Okabe keeps her head down, her grades high, and her heart guarded. At Ishida All Girls High School, she's known only as "the quiet one"-a ghost in a world of neon nails, idol gossip, and hallway power plays. She doesn't want attention. She definitely doesn't want friends.
But everything changes the day she punches the wrong girl.
Sayuri Fujikawa is the queen bee of Ishida-charismatic, beautiful, untouchable. When Ayumi takes down half of Sayuri's glittering inner circle in a single explosive outburst, Sayuri does the unthinkable: she reaches out, not with revenge, but with kindness.
Dragged into an unexpected friendship with the school's most adored girl, Ayumi is forced to confront the anger she's buried, the loneliness she's embraced, and the connection she never saw coming.
But in a school where reputation is everything and secrets simmer under the surface, how far can you trust someone who lives for the spotlight?
Break Me Gently is a raw and emotional story of unlikely friendship, buried pain, and the delicate power of choosing to be seen.