"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end we become disguised to ourselves." -Francois de La Rochefoucauled
Everything about me is filled with hatred, I bully people, I make people feel like shit. I want people to know what it felt like, I want people to feel the pain that I felt, I am driven by revenge and the need to make them pay. Until he came, he was everything I wanted but couldn't have, he was kind, but wouldn't take shit from anyone. He was funny, but arrogant at the same time. He was Scott McCall, and I was Chloe White.
I was lonely. I had no friends. I used to eat lunch alone. They called me fat, ugly, worthless, they talked behind my back thinking I couldn't hear them, but the truth was I did hear them, I heard them loud and clear almost as if the words were screaming at me.
My question to you is how much can a person take before they finally snap? Before I stoop as low as the people who made me feel like trash, maybe even lower.
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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