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

Max fiddled with the collar of his crewneck shirt. He decided to wear his best grey sweatshirt and jeans with the new sneakers he recently bought.

Borrowing Dorran's dress shirt to wear underneath, he fixed his unruly hair as much as he could but they decided to misbehave that day.

Aliya wore a dress that Shia brought as the girl did not bring any new clothes and Shia needed to give away her much smaller outfits already so it was a perfect situation.

"What if I make some kind of mess?" Aliya asked, getting dressed.

She had insisted that she would walk on her own that day because she did not want to worry any more people and Max couldn't argue with her on that.

"Like?" Max asked leaning against the dressing table.

"What if I suddenly just get sick again or faint or-"

"Hey." Max walked to Aliya and helped her fix the button on the collar of her pink floral dress. "Nothing like that will happen. Ok?"

Dinner