Prelude to Joy
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Now 16 year old Crystal is one of the most popular girls in her school, but this popular girl isn't an ordinary popular girl that started popular, she worked for it.
A dark secret she hides is her life in her previous class. She was 13 then, and was much more introverted, struggling to initiate friendships. Masking her social awkwardness, she tried to put on a normal facade until it slowly slips away, and she truly gets rejected by all her classmates except one, CJ. And if that isn't bad enough, she soon gets assigned a "responsibility" in class-CJ's best friend, a responsibility not even a once in a lifetime opportunity can change.
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