Summer Martins, a social outcast with good grades and a best guy friend named Cameron Soulie. Summer is the schools shiest and nerdiest girl. Cameron is the complete opposite, the most popular guy in school because he is the schools baseball's team captain. Since high school has started, Cameron has been popular and Summer has been stuck being ignored by her school (again). The two always hangout with each other. Cameron walks Summer home everyday after baseball practice, they help each other with their homework, they have trips planned with each other, and everything else that best friends do. When Cameron decides to sit with Summer one day, everything changes. Summer, the most envied girl in school, Summer, the most want-to-be-with girl between all of the boys. Now, what happens to Cameron and Summer, they are still friends, right?
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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