I was on my vine account when I saw this girl, "Imanigination." Her name was Imani Emma Martinez, so I guess it was a play on of her name.
She wasn't very popular on Vine, but her videos were funny, so I revined one of her videos and asked the fans to follow her. It got a lot of feedback on it and I checked her page a few minutes later, she'd grown a few thousand followers.
I continued Vine surfing and then saw something I was tagged in by that girl. She was fan girling that I had revined her and helped her get so many more followers. I commented saying, "You're welcome, beautiful."
I followed her back on Twitter, she DM'd me and that's how we started talking. I wanted to video chat, but she never seemed to have time or something was wrong. She was beginning to show me signs of her not being herself. That she wasn't being completely honest about herself. Now, three years later, here I, Matthew Lee Espinosa, am on Catfish.
And it all started with a Vine...
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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