Maya Ferguson, is a regular teenager trying to survive College. Shes the girl willing to help other students, the girl who volunteers at community fairs, not completely popular nor an outcast but her life is nothing special from the next highschooler.
Enter Tanner Osalt, an egotistic jerk, and Golden boy of NorthFolk High, he has it all, girls, popularity and offcourse, the looks.
Yet fate put these two polar opposites hand in hand when Maya accidently pranks Tanner instead of her best friend using ofcourse, the one thing Tanner fears, spiders.
Add a drug addict, a group of thugs and the return of an old friend things are beginning to get exciting. Maybe all Maya's life needed was a Pinch O' Salt, in the form of Tanner Osalt.
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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