Bring me the light
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**Please forgive if this is totally crappy and the mistakes during my writing. This is my first story so I don't expect it to be that good. I really hope you give my book a chance, who knows what'll happen.**
Riley Summers moves in with her grandmother after a troubled night happens back home. She reunites with her two best friends and in the new town puts on a happy face. No one seems to look past her mask but that's how she likes it.
Now let's add Noah Miles, the boy who moved to town two years ago, he sees her, he observes her and he notices the mask. And what does he decide? To break it.
Sometimes you need help to fight the demons inside your head and who could be a better help than someone who has experience with demons?
Join the journey of two messed up lives, two overloaded minds, two broken hearts that finally find healing in the other one.
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"Life isn't easy, it is freaking hard and the moment you think you've won a battle it will throw something at you, twice as hard, and it will break you, into tiny pieces, but I will be damned if I let anyone see me broken. Because they will comfort me at first and then they will use these pieces to create bigger wounds and I don't think I can take anymore."
"I wouldn't use those pieces against you. I would take them and try to glue them together."
"And if you couldn't?"
"I would improvise."
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