Stary Writing Academy III contest. Dare to Be A Teen– Elite Academy. Daily Updated. “You’re just a scholarship kid. You don’t belong here and I’m going to make your life miserable for as long as you stay. Do us a favour and leave.” “Wintercrest Academy is for the upper class. Low lives like you should go to one of those cheap schools.” “What? Are you upset because I soaked your homework in the bathroom? Next week, I’d set all your textbooks on fire. Let’s see how resilient you are then.” “Can you please stay away from me? You smell like poverty. I only associate myself with wealthy folks, like me.” This is what Kaia has to deal with every day, her offense? Getting a scholarship to attend Wintercrest Academy, the elite school ranking first place in Massachusetts and third place in the States. She’s the only student who got awarded the scholarship after acing the exams with a record-breaking score. Kaia has one purpose: be excellent and get into an Ivy League Premed program. But the upper-class students of Wintercrest Academy would use their wealth, influence and everything up their sleeve to sabotage the middle-class Kaia with her record-breaking, genius brain who is a threat to them. How does she survive in her new high school without falling apart?

Zina has become an Aster and moved into the Royal Palace like her mother wanted. But the blood thirsty hands of the war- that separated Ogaza into North and South- took her mother from her, not letting her live long enough to be proud of her daughter. Meeting fellow Aster, Amare was the cold shower on a sunny day as he also seeks his mother and sister who disappeared after the war. Refuting the theories of them being dead, Amare's surety in them being alive is all the spark Zina needs to burn. Despite the death penalty attached to crossing the Obsidian—the forbidden cave that seperates the North from the South—the two plot to find their parents in the South. Do they succeed? Is Amare telling the truth?