Every day, a young girl wearing a mask stands by the beach and sings a nostalgic melody with her Close friend Y/n. Y/n has always been there for Her. After experiencing two sudden heart-wrenching partings when they were only a child, Nino Arisugawa has been singing her songs to the ocean, bound by a promise made with her two childhood friends-her first love, Momo Sakaki, and a boy who composed music, Kanade "Yuzu" Yuzuriha while Y/n has been screaming her heart out by singing for certain boy. Having never met each other, the boys both individually promised that if Nino and Y/n were ever separated from them, there voice would be the beacon to reunite them once again.
After six long years, destiny has finally placed Nino, Momo, Y/n and Yuzu in the same high school. However, the passage of time has changed many things in their lives-while Nino relentlessly attempts to fulfill her childhood promise with the boys, Y/n and Yuzu's feelings for their first love from the past resurface, and Momo goes to great lengths to prevent a reunion with Nino and Y/n. Through music, will they be able to mend their friendship and overcome all the feelings involved in this complicated love story ?
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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