Seventeen-year-old Ayana Mills (pronounce uh-YA-nuh) was your typical girl next door. She didn't go out, got drunk, smoke weed, or anything like that but she wasn't a nerdy girl. She made decent grades. She didn't break her neck to get all A's, she was an AB student. She had a small group of friends, Hazel the weirdo, Jaz, the gamer, and Ashanti the gossip girl. Ayana was the outspoken one, she said was on her mind, raw, uncut, and unfiltered. If she felt as something was a bunch of bullshit she will say it.
One night her friends dragged her out to a bond fire that was two months before senior year, and that's where her life had changed when she bumped into nineteen-year-old Kayden Black. And let's say things went crazy like got pregnant and having this random guy's baby, type of crazy. Things were never the same.
Little Zuberi (pronounced zoo-BEH-ri) finds out all this as him and Ayana packs up and getting ready to move from the city to the country. He's young but very smart. He understands what happened when his mother while she was in school.
Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option.
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Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her...
Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault.
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