Try To Change Me
SwimmingUpstream
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  • Parts 44
  • Time 5h 9m
SwimmingUpstream
Ongoing, First published Mar 20, 2012
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"I'm questioning my very existence and you're asking if I'd like syrup with my pancakes?!"
"Everybody knows it's better to have your mid-life crisis on a full-stomach."
"No, everybody knows it's better to have your mid-life crisis when you're not 16!"

When you're a teenager, it doesn't take a lot to make you question yourself. A few mean comments, a few sideways glances, and you're frantically trying to remember what you had for breakfast and whether it's stuck in your teeth. 

Austen, Ebony, Carissa, Finnegan, Salena and Phitz have bigger things to worry about. 

Like being shot. 

The awful part: they don't know why. The worst part: finding out just might destroy them. As their lives are cast under the spot-light, cracks begin to show that could very well swallow them whole.

"You're right, I'm not who I thought I was. I'm different. But I am ME. You can try to change me, you have tried, but there are some things you cannot change!"

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