Y/n is the new girl at Waterloo Road. It’s her first day in school. She is beautiful, the boys want to be with her and the girls want to be her. Her arrival to the school makes some girls jealous though. They try and put her down.
Nestled in south Manchester’s leafy suburbs, Westfield High establishes social hierarchies within weeks of year 7—and labels are hard to shake. For three years, 13-year-old Jorja Mae Hayes was known as “Plain Jorja” or “Ugly Hayes”; kids whispered as she passed, or ignored her entirely. She wore oversized glasses, hand-me-down clothes that didn’t fit, and hunched her shoulders like she wanted to disappear into the walls.
At exclusive Rosehill Country Day, Drea has built the perfect life—until her private video leaks, and her golden-boy boyfriend leaves her in the dust. Eleanor’s past is shattered by a lie from Rosehill’s meanest girl, a secret she’s carried for years. When their paths cross, they strike a deal: swap revenges, so no one suspects a thing. But in a world of privilege, backstabbing, and razor-sharp wit, their plan spirals into chaos—and forces them to face
On the stroke of midnight, as her 18th birthday clock chimes in the cramped bedroom she’s shared with her younger siblings for a decade, Elara slips out the back door of her family’s terrace house in a forgotten corner of the UK. In her worn rucksack: one change of clothes, a second-hand laptop charged to full, her birth certificate, £200 in cash saved from three years of secret weekend shifts at a laundrette, and a single notebook filled with scribbled business ideas she’d hidden under her mattress.
Y/N is a girl who had had a hard life. She passed all her GCSE’s and dropped out of sixth form because of her mental health. Since then, her life’s gone downhill. She got addicted to weed, her bedroom was a mess, she had no money and no purpose. She knew what she wanted to do, just not how to get there. She had a boyfriend called Leon Laird. He lives at his sister, Elisha’s, With Elisha, her boyfriend Liam, Leon’s Newphews Jaxson whos 5 and Luca who’s 2. Jaxson and Luca are a bit of a handful. It’s New Year’s Eve and y/n is finally ready to change her life around. She wants to start an apprenticeship as a TA, and quit weed. She’s taking it day by day. Let’s see how she does in the new year of 2026.
Press your finger north of England’s Pennines, where moors stretch like bruised heather blankets and roads thin to dirt—you’ll find Hollowmere, a place that doesn’t exist on any map. No signposts mark its lanes; its name is only spoken by those who’ve walked here, or by grandparents who whisper it when wind carries damp earth and something older still.