Whenever anyone mentioned the zombie Apocalypse I would always roll my eye. The whole idea was preposterous. Think about it rationally, never, ever, will flesh eating, brain craving monsters rise from the dead, I mean really? No. So of course whenever the topic is brought up at lunch, which is quite frequently, a debate will happen.
See, I'm a science person, yet my best friend Zee, is not. She prefers comics and video games and gets all her logic from those. Zee is obsessive, she spends all her time watching cartoons, playing on some console and reading comics. We are polar opposites. I often wonder why the two of us are even friends.
So quite understandably, when shit hit the fan, I was the first to apologise to Zee and from there? Well, we tried to survive.
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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