Alternative title: Huh, It's Kinda Nice To Finally Have Friends
Exactly what it sounds like. Starring all the APH characters as awkward puddles of teenage self-loathing and cringe. Pairings would be subtle, and just what you expect from middle school. Still debating if I'm gonna do ships. Crack ones, probably.
Short America. Deformed/disabled China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Eventually every character will be added :P gimme time... I wanna like, have a plot for once maybe?*gasp* yeah this is cringe and I made it even more cringe by saying that whoops :)
But seriously if you want a description, here it is:
Alfred Jones is full of contradictions. He's socially awkward, but he's a social butterfly. He tries his hardest to be nice to everyone, but he has almost no friends. He's a nerd, but he's a jock. He's full of aspiration, but he never does anything. He's barely twelve-the youngest out of all his classmates-but he feels so much older than any of his classmates. With an admittedly adorable Russian exchange student and his practically off-the-grid foster family, a former football player that you officially met under the bleachers and his vulgar best friends, a frightening brunette with a talent for coercion, an overshadowed, overprotective twin, the principal's four adopted children (which consist of an anime-obsessed Japanese baseball player, a deformed, womanly Chinese boy who considers himself your mother, a Chinese boy whom nobody can understand thanks to an uncorrected cleft palate, and a one-armed, self-proclaimed-Taiwanese girl), a loud yet soft Italian and his snarky twin, a buff, authoritarian flutist, an uptight classical pianist, a dysfunctional family of Nordics, a sixth-grade secret-admirer, an Aussie daredevil, and an obnoxiously pretentious Englishman all constantly on your tail, not to mention your insane level of aspiration and your ever-crumbling Mount Everest of pride, how do you even survive?
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It's the last year of high school, and everything has changed . . .
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After a summer spent in the Philippines, Lara Dela Cruz is eager to start her senior year and, most importantly, reunite with her three besties. But what she did not expect was to show up on the first day of school to all three of her friends now in relationships. Fighting for their attention, catching some new and confusing feelings for long-time frenemy James, and wading through the pressures of post-high-school plans all have Lara reeling. And to make matters worse, Lara's beautiful and untrustworthy cousin conveniently appears and wiggles her way right between her and James' budding relationship. Feeling like a third wheel in more ways than one, Lara must learn to accept that change is inevitable, love is complicated, and being the odd one out is sometimes where inner power is found.
[[Word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
Cover design by Jill Caldwell
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