14-year old high school student Sara is a usual school girl in the US: good grades, smart at everything, excels at everything, beautiful, and would not give you the homework answer, even for a million dollars, and hates absolutely nobody. Well, just one person, maybe. Aria Gravestone is a popular student, who skips schools, drinks wine, and absolutely HATES Sara. However, everything changes when a new transfer student, just like Sara, shows up, and takes the spotlight, as the new POPULAR GIRL! Aria is angered, upset, and vengeful. She would ruin that new girl ' s reputation if it was the last thing she ' ll do. Sara is aiming to have the new girl in her group, and stop Aria from reaching the top, even if it means teasing. Will she keep the new girl on top? Or will she expel herself from the fight?
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
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When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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