So I’m Just your normal teenage girl. I’m insecure about myself, I’m clumsy, I worry about fitting in, I spend ALL DAY on the internet, I push on doors that clearly say pull, and I restart a song when I miss my favorite line. But there’s one little detail that I always leave out of conversations, for obvious reasons. I’m friends, with the one, the only Louis Tomlinson. Now before you scream and yell at me for not telling you, it’s because we kind of grew up with each other, so he wasn’t a superstar to me, he was just an ordinary person, and a really close friend of mine. That was until I moved to Florida, and he went on to pursue his dream of becoming a singer, by trying out for X Factor. We continued to talk, using Skype and hour long phone calls, and we texted each other constantly, but after a while we started to drift apart. We haven’t seen each other face to face in 2 years.
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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