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Artful Essence
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Ongoing, First published Jan 03, 2016
Athena Collins has one objective in mind and that's to survive her final year of high school without any problems, but just like any other plan it doesn't exactly go to plan. For as long as Athena Collins can recall she's had a crush on Wilder Ford, a guy who is predisposed to make the entire female population die from ovary explosions. As Athena's final year of high school progresses things start to get a little strange as she uncovers things about her past, her father and even her immediate future. What's a girl got to do to survive a normal year of high school? Try not to die.

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"I said, What are you doing here?" Wilder snarled, with only a foot between us. 

"Well... You see, what happened was... I was just leaving work and then I saw you and decided to--"

"---stalk me" he finishes for me

"-cautiously approach you from behind. Without being seen. For 10 minutes.", "But that doesn't make me a stalker" I add in a poor attempt to cover up my shamefully terrible investigating skills.


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