❝"I'm gonna take a piss--wait up, 'kay?" I nodded and placed the items on the counter, pulling my wallet from my jean's back pocket. At that moment, the store's door shattered before being kicked open. A group of five stormed in, faces disguised with wolf masks. One boy held a backpack in hand, and the rest held the guns at ready.
My jaw slackened, open, ready to let out a scream, but I was paralyzed. The clerk behind the cashier dropped below eye-level and screamed, and I wished I could've covered. The first thing they did was shoot at the cameras, the little mechanisms inside falling to the ground.❞
Imagine this: Being overrun by teenage boys in black hoodies and wolf masks, seeming to get off on scaring a couple of teenagers girls and a gas station clerk. Juniper didn't expect to have them kidnap her all on the fact "She knew too much," as the leader put it. She expected them to shoot her or something, but knowing who the leader is.. she wished they had.
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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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