"Welcome to the circus, are you a spectator, or a lion?"
When Maggie Parker is offered a place at Vidre Grammar, located in New York, a school for the children of high society's rich and powerful elite with the security to match, she sees it as a chance to escape her tragic past in Melbourne. Its only when she arrives and is ambushed by spoilt rich kids with their own social hierarchy she realizes that she needs to stay on her toes.
Just when she thinks she's over the worst of it, a memory from her past shows up, with a shadowy childhood and secrets of his own.
But there's something the boy isn't telling her, so its up to Maggie to fix his mistakes, potentially stopping a national crisis in the process. What she thought was going to be a typical "new girl" story becomes anything but, forcing her to decide whether to spectate from the sidelines, or become a lion, putting her life on the line, once again, for those she loves. Priorities change from surviving the school year, to surviving the next twelve hours. But hey, the show must go wrong!
Reminding her that no matter how far you run, you can't escape your past, not for long anyway.
and sometimes, perhaps memories can be people.
So, is Maggie a lion or a spectator? And can she save the circus before it's too late?
(Trailer on part 22: "Learn your place." Cover by @offhanded
You silent readers are gonna be the death of me)
𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 ↬ she's your basic, molded into the background, type girl. She does everything she can to stay unseen. The only people she can trust are her friends, but they don't even know about all of her trauma. No one does. She's just trying to get through highschool so that she can leave her town, and never look back.
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𝗔𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 ↬ he's your average, female loved, boy. Well, kinda average. He just happens to be one of the most popular singers of his generation. All girls love him, all guys envy him. He's been touring around Europe for a while, but he's ready for a break. He ends up moving to Calloway, New York, to take a break from his career. But, Calloway just happens to be the town Allie lives in.
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𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽 between the two happens at school, rumors start to spread that they're dating. The two are forced to pretend to have a relationship for the sake of Asher's career. But, a lot can happen when you fake date a rockstar 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀.
(𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮/𝗻)
༛ EDITED ༛
༛ REWRITTEN ༛
༛ NEW CHAPTERS FROM ASHER'S POV ༛