⚠️Suicide⚠️
Hinata Shouyo, he seems like a happy-go-lucky person, seems like he is always happy, almost never sad, but underneath all that happiness is a depressed, anxiety full, suicidal, scared little boy.
Kageyama Tobio, he is the only person who knows of Hinata's depression, because Kageyama is the only person Hinata can really trust in this world.
Kageyama does his best to help Hinata, to make him happy, to take away bits and pieces of the depression, and just when Hinata seems to be getting better something happens that leaves one physically gone, and one mentally gone.
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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