The Serial Effect. Short for the serial position effect, it's the tendency to remember things in the beginning, and the end, while everything in the middle is forgotten.
Like the story. It begins when the girl meets the guy, and ends with either the break-up or make-up. But what about everything else? What about the middle? What about the quiet talks, stolen moments, the pranks, the friends, the bumps in the road, the small moments that make the story theirs.
Jassilinn Flinn, or Jas, is starting senior year as nothing more than a shadow. Only intent is to survive until she can graduate and start her life for real. Until [insert semi-cliché meeting here], and she rapidly becomes caught trying to handle a shifting social chain, overzealous girls, family, school, future, and everything that comes with high school.
This isn't a story about how the guy gets the girl and they frolic off into the sunset. It's about the guy who finds the strength to let someone in, the girl who never had the courage to take a chance, and what happens when the middle story becomes more important than either the beginning, or the end.
(A/N) The Serial Position Effect is a real psychological term, the definition here is loosely translated, but the idea is the same.
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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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