A World Without Scars
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Last published Sun, Jun 15, 2025
Charlotte "Charlie" Hayes is a quiet, cold, distant and reserved high school freshman who has problems at school because of bullying and endless torment, and at home because of her single mother's physical abuse towards her. This has been an everyday routine for her and she had even thought of what the world would be like without her daily.
That is, until one day, she meet Ashton Holt, an ordinary sophomore who spent his life hanging out with his friends casually. His world is imperfect too, but brighter, freer. When their paths cross at school , Ashton sees something in Charlie no one else does: life beneath the scars.
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