35 years ago, something happened. Something that didn't make sense, something that was unexpected and something Heather Ciara, the third had never seen coming. Stuck on the same bus for the next god-knows-how-many years, she gave up hope trying to understand what happened and why she was stuck on that bus.
Until she met Clarabel Meadows who was surprisingly, her only companion after decades, but "how?" was a question that wouldn't stop haunting either of them.
Confused, lost, definitely scared, they try to figure out the truth of what happened that day while trying to navigate through their feelings in a world so uncharted where failure meant game over.
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inspired by prompt 20 of the ONC 2023 - details in introduction
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Not everything is as it seems in Clara Collin's life. Well, she seems to be your typical nerd, she is excellent at mathematics and language, and is terrible at sports, more specifically: she is completely unable to swim. That's what it seems she was trying to tell Liam Walters as he carried her down the dock of an allegedly cursed lake, with the intention of giving her a good scare and forcing Clara to endure the bus ride back to school sopping wet.
But what he didn't intend was for Clara to die in that water.
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Clara didn't expect for most aspects of her life to seem like a lie, she didn't expect to not be human.
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SEQUEL : THE BLOOD DUEL - UP NOW !!
WARNING:
I wrote DROWNED when I was 13, so please don't expect anything high quality. There are plot holes and chapters which don't make sense. I'm in the process of rewriting chapter by chapter but veryyyy slowly.