Ava was your typical, popular bad girl. Cliché, right? Even at the young age of 17, she would never turn down a drinking challenge or a cigarette. Even though she ignored me, and even though I hated her clique and their risky decisions... I can't help but feel a wave of guilt pass over me every time I think of that day. I didn't mean for it to happen. They tell me it's not my fault, but I know they're wrong! I can see it in their eyes... Lies... THEY'RE ALL TELLING LIES! Stop pretending... You know it's true. I'm sorry, everyone. I let you down.
-Guilty
When her risky choices led Ava Dawson to her death, she finds herself with quite a task. Being a guardian angel isn't easy, especially when you're assigned to a person you actually know. Ava never really liked her, she was boring, in all her honesty. The girl who sits at the back of the class, headphones blasting, and without a care in the world. It may have been easy to ignore her, but it's impossible to ignore her story.
Love is strange. It exists in many forms and is one of the key components that makes humans happy, but there isn't a lot of understanding surrounding it. At least not the kind of understanding with which the average person identifies.
Agnes is one of the few people that can accept all kinds of love. Despite her dated name, she is a woman in her late 20's dealing with the death of most of her family. She's now stuck in the middle of figuring out how to raise children that she never saw in her future and deciding what love means for her, when it has to exist within layer upon layer of complication. She let go of her boyfriend after almost a decade because their love wasn't meant to exist under the strain of children, only to find herself confronted with the overpowering connection of her old high school sweetheart. The same man she ran away from because their values hardly aligned when it came to how love should be expressed long term. Within the midst of learning how to raise children and balance her ever-building career, Agnes tries to recover from her mother's death, seek comfort without complicating her circumstance, and figure out why her mother would name her Agnes. Finding real comfort starts to feel impossible, as her most available options are her ex-boyfriend and her assistant.
Completed!
Rejected 6 times**
"This one just isn't for us." By far the most plain rejection I have ever received and I can respect it.
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