Winter_Iris

Kaia Marschall, a mute student of Fanning High is in her final year of high school, waiting to start her university life.

But in the world that she lived in, only those who fit the standard of 'beauty' can actually make it far in life, whether they have the talent for the job or not. So people would trade years of their lives just to secure their limited future.

Unfortunately for Kaia, she did not fit the standard and she as well everyone knows it. What she doesn’t know is what people will do just to be able to get a boost in life.

So, when it was discovered and announced that killing a person will allow the killer to gain that person’s lifespan, she was killed. Only to return to the age of twelve, to the day of her mother’s death, the day everything begun to go wrong in her life, with the chance to change her destiny.

Content Warning: This novel contains graphic depictions of violence and discussions of suicide and self-harm.

In The Eyes of the Beholder

Lily looked out the window, staring at all the buildings and people they passed by as the car was deadly quiet, except for the rustling of paper from Shia.

She fiddled with the bouquet of yellow flowers and a small box of mango tart in her hands nervously.

"Are you ok, Shia?" Florence asked, looking at how her hands shook.

"Me? Ok? Yeah. I am ok." She said but no one was convinced. "What about you all? Are you ok?"

"I hope you are not in too much of a hurry." She said, chuckling more to herself than to them.

"Its fine," Florence said as Emily nodded vigorously.

"You all are such good kids." She said, patting the two in the head.

"Cheap, coming from you," Lily said, leaning against the window. "Are you trying to buy off my sisters now? Can't you buy some other kids?"

Cry