Claire Plafir isn't what you would call a normal girl. Claire is schizophrenic and she's been haunted by an apparition named Janelle since she was 14. Janelle has been awful to her, taunting her and forcing her to do things she hasn't wanted to. For five, years, Claire's best friend Louis Thomas, was her rock, her safe place and when she was near him, Janelle would quiet. But after Louis went away to college, Janelle was much worse. Once Claire meets up with Louis, will Janelle stay silent? Or will she have grown stronger? And what about this boy Claire meets in a field, every time she dreams at night? When she finds out he's not only in her dreams, will he be able to also rescue her from her not-such-a-fairytale-life in reality? Or is the place of peace and security just a dream?
*TW* Contains topics and scenes of sexual assault, self-harm, abuse.*
"You know you loved every second of it," I can feel the tears welling up as well as the anger building up within me. I stare at him for a while before I have to turn away from his hungry gaze. "Look I just came here to tell you that I forgive you for what you did back in Cali and I'll take you back,"
"You forgive me?" I yell. "I did nothing to you. You raped me! You fucking raped me! You have no right to come here and tell me that. You. Forgive. Me. You traumatized me. What you did to me tore me up inside and was eating away at me until I tried to kill myself. And when I told people they didn't believe me. I had to listen to so many people talk about how great a guy you were and how I clearly just regretted sleeping with you. You are a monster. You made me hate myself for something that was never my fault. You have caused me so much pain and suffering," I pause to take a deep breath. "So you don't get to come here to my school and tell me you forgive me. You don't get to make me feel bad about coming forward. The only thing I regret is ever thinking you were a good person."
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Logan Young is a 16-year-old girl about to start her senior year in a brand new town. The past year has been tough and her family moved to give her a fresh start. Her life before the move had been hard and she had been spiraling. She quickly makes new friends and even enemies. She builds up walls to protect herself. But what happens when an unlikely person helps her to tear down her walls and heal. Will she be able to survive in this new place and keep her secrets intact?