Madelaine Lapierre looks like your typical popular girl, bitch, Queen B, whatever you want to call it. But the key word is looks not is. She is smart, loyal, calm, patient, artsy, but also a hard core rocker.
Madelaine has always been judged by her attitude due to the way she looks. People expect her to be one thing and to go with the way society works. But she doesn't want to, she wants to be herself, feel like herself. So when her eleventh grade begins and people are pushing her more than ever to be the way society expects her to be she's finally had enough.
Stereotypes will be brought to light, others will be changed. Some will fall while others will rise. But a person trying to be themselves is a dangerous thing for they are unpredictable and our society is none but predictability.
What will happens when Madelaine becomes friends with someone who is helping her be her true self? Not just any someone, but her schools golden boy, Ashton Lockhart.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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