Brilliance
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  • Reads 79
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  • Parts 9
  • Time 2h 16m
Ongoing, First published Aug 26, 2022
Mature
Hypothetically, there was no real reason that Isa Flores shouldn't be valedictorian of her class by the time that graduation rolls around. If she wanted to be able to afford going to law school, she needed to get the full-ride scholarship that Baylor University gave out to students who graduated high school at the top of their class.

In reality, the stress of multiple AP classes, practices for sports, working out and working to help out her parents made keeping her grades up a lot less practical.

But the main thing in her way wasn't a number on a test or a game she needed to win. It was the guy next door who had been her closest friend for years until she cut him off when he hurt her in a way she didn't think him to be capable of. 

Just her luck, she's stuck doing a project that's worth a large portion of her AP Psych final grade with the guy who had destroyed a part of her, and if she wasn't on top of everything, he'd destroy her chances at the entire future she'd planned for herself.
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