"Come here, bitch!" "Hey loser!" "Who do you think you are, you little whore!" "God, why do we have to put up with you?!" "Why can't you just go die in a hole?!"
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Tessa is tired of all the taunts. At school, & at home. She's starting to believe them too. Maybe she is just a worthless nothing. Maybe, she should just kill herself & save everyone the trouble.
Everyday, after a long day of suffering, she visits the empty diner behind her neighborhood. To write her feelings in her diary, to wish she had someone to call her own, to cry. One day, the diner had a new customer besides Tessa. And he happened to sit at the table she always sat at, and find Tessa's diary, which she always hid under the table thinking no one would find it.
This is about how they talk to each other via her diary. How they comfort each other. How spark fly between them. This is about how they find the guardian angel they both desperately need, in each other.
Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option.
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Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her...
Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault.
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