Sometimes life doesn't go the way you want it to go, but you can't choose the life you want, the life chooses you.
So when Lily Hart found out her personal stalker, Toby Allen A.K.A. Toby The Twat, is going to live with her under the SAME roof for the rest of their college years, Lily immediately looked for a possibility she can live elsewhere, or at least swap. Never in a milllion years she'll gonna live with that creep under the same roof, even if her life depended on it. Nu-uh. End of. Period.
But, I guess, it wasn't her lucky day. Out of seven billion people in the entire world, she got stuck with him. Now that's unlucky.
So Lily is gonna have to come up with a good plan, a GENIUS plan, to avoid her stalker as much as possible. Otherwise her reputation will come to an end, even though it hadn't yet started.
Lily thinks this is the end of her 'already ruined life', but she's totally wrong. Because this isn't the end, this is just the beginning.
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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