[Book #1 of Twisted Deception]
"You people don't know a damn thing about us, don't even speak."
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Everyone knows that high school is always something to dread. GPA, friends, enemies, prom, graduation, everything that you think would make high school good and bad for the future. Now scratch off friends, GPA, prom, and graduation.
Why would you scratch them off? Because everything else will be the only thing that's important when you get to this high school.
Saint Johnathan Pier is the one high school in the city where everything happens and normally, stuff you wish you didn't see.
Everyone warned people about the dangers of the students going there but did they ever mention the people already broken by it?
They were dubbed "the rainbow colors of society" just because they were different from other students in this school.
But there's a slight differential between them: four of these students are popular while the other four are normal.
While the four populars are seen as "superior, hot, and intimidating", the four normals are seen as "weirdos, weaklings, and irreverent bystanders".
Being different from the other kids has always been a struggle for all of them since grade school, but they try to keep that out of mind.
But with their dark history following them at every corner, making new friends can't be on their list.
Matter of fact, it isn't an option. Especially when their attitudes are what drive people away rather than in.
Not like they're complaining though.
When these eight students get paired up for an end of the year assignment, they encounter a lot of drama that will test their relationships to the max.
What will happen to them? Can they grow comfortable with each other? Can these troubled teens even be friends in the first place?
Come along on the journey as these eight try to survive their last year of high school.
⚠️TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️: This contains strong language, mentions of rape, bullying, etc.
Mutants have existed long enough to be properly integrated into society, but not long enough for everyone to have accepted them. Outside of the United States, a hub for mutant immigrants fleeing the oppressive laws of their own countries, fear of mutant syndrome bleeds through the cracks in mysterious deaths, obnoxious court rulings, and social isolation. It isn't all sunshine and rainbows in America, either ⸻ some states are more progressive than others, and it's a constant battle over who has what rights and where. But there is one class of mutants that nearly everyone can agree on avoiding: Class F. The Freaks.
For awkwardly tall and perpetually oblivious homeschooler Noah Kirby, all that exists is his house and the little graveyard on his street in North Carolina. When the opportunity comes along to enroll as a first-year at F Class Academy, an up-and-coming school for the most dangerous mutants of the generation, it means opening his eyes to an entirely new world, one where mutant life isn't as easy as he thought it was. Noah has three goals to ensure his start at FCA goes smoothly:
1. Befriend his moody Ability Management partner Amaris, so that they don't both risk failing the class,
2. Get to the bottom of why he keeps waking up surrounded by dissected corpses, and
3. Make it through the year without getting killed by one of his classmates' disastrous accidents.
It may sound impossible, but with a dash of optimism and the help of a lot of new friends, he's confident he can make it work. FCA is nothing like he's ever seen before, but it can't be so scary. At the end of the day, mutant highschoolers are just like any other highschoolers... right?
[ This story is unabashedly inspired by franchises I liked when I was a kid. I'm mostly writing it just for fun and for my friends to read, but if you also liked stuff like the X-Men, Percy Jackson, and Ever After High, you might have a fun time too! ]