Senior Year is supposed to be simple: apply to colleges, get into said colleges, keep your grades up, and enjoy the last "free" year with your longtime friends. But things aren't always simple like they should be. No, that would be too easy and no one would learn a thing. Heartbreak, bad grades, and big decisions weigh down the fabulous four (Isla, Samuel, Meredith, and Chandler) as they try to make it through the year without changing the closeness of their circle (or square really, because it's four friends).
To stir the pot even more, Isla Summers is in love with her best friend, the semi-brooding, unfairly good looking baseball star she's known since Kindergarten. The same best friend that goes out and hooks up with the entire female class of Prescott (besides her and Mere, of course), but isn't the "Samuel King" everyone else thinks he is. They say opposites attract, and that's definitely the case, for Isla. Her shy, bubbly, goody-two-shoes self is embarrassingly smitten for Sam. It's written all over her face, yet she continues to deny it. That is, until a party at Chandler's blurs the line between friendship and, well, whatever Isla and Sam have.
Returning to Prescott High School, the four are in for a world of love, loss, fear, and growth.
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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