She Talks To Shadows...
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Last published Mon, Aug 27, 2012
Ava has always been a weird child. Like any normal girl she watched The Vampire Diaries, skimmed every volume of 17 magazine, and even loved shopping! But two problems. Number one: She's America's smartest teen, well any one under the age of 40. Number two: Due to her smartness, well, she does, and has never, had many friends. She graduated collage at the age of 12 and didn't know what to do from there. Her parents, who loved rolling in the money she gain for them, banished her off to some unknown boarding school deep in the Rockies at 16. But when she comes to the academy she finds a reason to stop trying to be something she's not. But what will her parents think of this?
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