Hi, I am Rebecca, well, I used to be. I am getting used to my new name.
Let me start again.
Hi, I am Alexandra, well, you can call me Alex, that's what I call myself nowadays. Since yesterday, I mean.
It's crazy how for a moment, I was sharing my happiness and sorrows with my best of friends and my dad was teaching me tai chi and the very next moment my principal, with whom I've planned a whole lot of Self defense programs for the high, tells me, that one of my best friend is an assassin, my dad is not my dad, in fact he has his own family, up in Boston, and he was down here in Chicago, as a cover up for my real dad, since 18 years.
It's okay anyways.
Never too late to know the truth I guess. But everything can't be that simple. I expected to meet my new dad, embrace what's happening but, no! Something has to happen. Now I have to do something, I've always been prepared for. Mind you! I didn't know they were cultivating me to become a word class assassin, meant to kill people.
Trust me, it just gets weirder.
Hi, I am Julia Faye, not your ideal dream girl, with a nauseating past.
I my whole life had been wrecked when I got to know that my parents died on the day I turned 16 , and they died when they were on their way to pick me up from my boarding school.
I blame them for their demise. I didn't ask them to put me in a wretched boarding school in the first place. It is their fault. Since three years I've blamed myself for being a curse to them. well at least that is what I felt.
When I meet my best friend after two years, he brings with him a surprise. one would normally guess of chocolates and flowers, trust me, we've been past that stage. this time, he brought me someone who I always dreamt of having. A brother. My brother, Dylan.
This changes everything. suddenly I am not alone anymore. suddenly my parents didn't die because of me, but because they decided to leave a company that paid them to kill. Yes they were assassins.
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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