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MajesTea18
Complete, First published Nov 11, 2015
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Vanessa Stevens lived her life as the easy target high school girl in a regular town with few interests and even fewer interested in her. 

With no ambitions in sight and no confidence whatsoever, she settles on writing a letter to herself, listing al the things she wants to do, be, or become. However, she backs out of it at the last minute and chooses to forget about it. 

That doesn't last as the letter resurfaces and makes her take a hard look at herself

 Is this who she wants to be? 

Can she change? 

Or does she have to start again ?
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[ completed; unedited ] When Rylie Henderson starts her dreaded senior year of high school, all she wants to do is hide herself from the rest of the world and read, her favorite hobby. She finds it as her distraction from what happened to her in the past. Rylie is encouraged to branch out, but she doesn't know which step to take. When she meets Elias Greene, a cute aspiring artist, she begins to feel different about everything and possibly changes her mind about hiding herself from the world. Elias has his own set of goals for the school year like Rylie, but will they both achieve what they truly want at the end? Love, friendship, diversity, betrayal, and pride all wrapped into one in a high school coming-of-age story. word count [ 50,000-70,000 words ] FEATURED IN @Romance profile's Head Over Heels list. COVER DESIGN by Cassy Frost (@bycassyfrost) BANNER DESIGN: @Singularity_Writes

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