Summary

Eliza Mirk is a antisocial high schooler by day and LadyConstellation, creator of internationally popular webcomic, Monstrous Sea, by night. Eliza hates high school more than anything. Luckily, It's Eliza's senior year of high school and she's happy that she only has 8 more months until she graduates from this nightmare she calls school. It's not that she hates school, she just hates having to be around other people. She just can't wait to go to college, where, she's been told by some fans, is so much better than high school. People won't judge her for how she dresses, and she doesn't have to be around people have to be around people if she doesn't have to. Right when she's beginning to become hopeful that the next 8 months will go by fast and she can finally go to college, a new kid starts at her school. As Eliza walks into her homeroom class, her teacher, Mrs.Grier, asks for Eliza to show the new kid around the school. She introduces Eliza to the new kid, Wallace. Right away Elliza thinks this kid is the type who would make fun of her. She thinks he looks like a football player. Since Eliza is so antisocial she doesn't talk to the new kid, but to her surprise he doesn't try to talk to her either. She gets through the day as she normally would, by getting lost in her drawings and becoming invisible until lunch where she sits alone and continues sketching new pages of Monstrous Sea. But the next afternoon, she sees Wallace being bullied by her old friends from elementary school. They also bully her, and she almost didn't say anything, until she heard them say that he was writing a fanfiction. Then, one of the boys, Deshawn, says he thinks it's a fanfiction about Monstrous Sea. At that, Eliza decides that LadyConstellation wouldn't let someone bully one of her fans, so she speaks up and tells the boys to stop. This backfires and Deshawn takes her sketchbook, the boys then play keepaway with the sketchbook, until Wallace steps in and grabs the book from mid-air. Wallace gives the book back and Eliza goes home. The next day she and Wallace begin talking. They talk for a while and she finds out the Wallace is actually rainmaker, but she doesn't tell him that she's actually LadyConstellation. Near Halloween Wallace asks Eliza to come with him to a low key costume party at a local book store, where she meets the other Angels. After Eliza and Wallace go get some sushi as an unofficial first date. The two start hanging out after school everyday and talk more frequently inside and outside of school, they even start hanging out on the weekends with Wallace's friends. While hanging out Eliza introduces the Children of Hypnos books to Wallace and he finishes them quickly. Before the writer could finish the series she disappeared. Once Wallace finishes the last book he freaks out because there is a cliffhanger as an ending. He rushes over to Eliza's house to discuss the issue. While at her house they have lunch and watch Dog Days reruns. After watching a few episodes of the show, Wallace asks for some paper and asks Eliza if he can kiss her. She wants to respond with a yes, but she decides that it might not end well. She ends up saying yes, but not now and that she is giving him permission to suprise her with a kiss whenever. They then go back to watching the show, but this time they hold hands until Eliza has to take her bothers to their practice. Eliza and Wallace talk about their families while her brothers are having ther practice. Before Christmas Eliza agrees to meet Wallace's family for a dinner. It goes well until college is brought up and everything goes downhill. There is an argument between Wallace and his stepdad and Wallace and Eliza go to his bedroom in the basement. They talk more, and officially become boyfriend and girlfriend. The next morning Eliza see she has many missed texts from Emmy and Max. She then realizes the pages that were scheduled to be posted the night before never went up. She posts the pages and apologizes to her fans for being late. Her dad tells her a few minutes later, that Wallace is waiting for her downstairs because they're supposed to go to Murphy's - the bookstore that they'd been meetng Wallaces friends at. Once they arrive Wallaces friends are talking about the delayed page from the previous night. One morning not long after Eliza is working on her computer when her mom enters her room and asks her to come downstair with the rest of the family. After a short argument her mom reminds her that it's chrstmas and she agrees to join the family. That night Eliza gets and email from Wallace explaining that a few years before his dad drove off a cliff and killed himself, and that Wallace played football and talked in public before that hapened but stopped after the accident. Back at school they breifly discuss the email, but don't linger on the subject. One day, a few weeks after the email, te two are in Wallace's basement room, when they talk a little more about the email, then the begin messing around and kiss for the first time. Once spring break comes around Eliza's parents decide they are going to take a camping trip. Eliza isn't happy about this, but to make it worse they don't allow her to bring her sketchbook, but she manages to sneak her phone along on the trip. To her disappointment, Eliza's parents find out she brought her phone and take it for the rest of the trip. Once she returns she gets into an argument with Wallace, luckily they get over it once they return to school only a couple of days later. Though, just a few months before graduation, the graduation issue of the Westcliff Star shows up and Eliza quickly realizes her parents made a huge mistake. They unknowingly release her identity to the whole school, some people praise her for it, but all she's focused on is making sure Wallace doesn't read the paper. Once he walks into the room and reaches for one of the copies, she runs to him to make sure he doesn't see what her parents wrote. She succesfully pulls the first copy of the paper he picks up out of his hands, but right after he grabs another and she realizes she can't prevent his finding out of her identity. As soon as he finds out he rushes off before she can catch up to him. She decides to wait until lunch to find him and talk to him, since they sit together every day. Once she arrives in the lunch room she finds that he isn't there and she starts to panic. She passes out and hits her head on a table. She wakes up in the hospital with her parents, but all she can think about is Wallace. Eliza blows up at her parents, but they struggle to understand. Her brothers do understand though. She doesn't do anything. She can't bring herself to text Wallace, or go to school, or even draw. Her brother, Sully, decides that she should tell her parents exactly what they did, but Eliza doesn't want to. Then both brothers tell their parents because Eliza won't do it herself. Her brothers go off on their parents because they believe its all their fault. They think their parents should've at least looked up Monstrous Sea. It takes a while for their parents to fully realize what they've done. Her brothers were completly on her side and were the only ones truly there for her. Wallace finally decides that they really need to talk. He was so angry with her. She tells him that shes not planning on putting up any more pages, and that makes things even worse. He tells her that the day before all this happened he got an email from a publisher about the transcription, but that they won't publish it until the comic is finished. But she argues that she can't even pick up a pencil, let alone finish the comic. Wallace leaves, still angry, which makes Eliza so unhappy. Over the next few days she tries to finish the comic, but she just can't, but she does decide to go back to school. She once again starts worrying about Wallace and how all of this is impacting him. Finally she decides that she needs help so she writes a letter to Olivia Kane-the author of the Children of Hypnos series-asking for advice. She also ges to see a therapist. Things at school, such as grades, begin to drop and graduation can't come fast enough. She then goes to meet Wallace after the graduation ceremony, but things don't go well. At all. Wallace is still so angry at her for never telling him and for never finishing the comic. She tries to message Emmy and Max for support, but they arent responding. she drives to the edge of the Wellhouse Turn and stops, contemplating whether or not she should just drive off the edge and end all of the suffering shes going through. Right after she decides to go home a car pulls up. Wallace flies out of the car and runs as fast as possible over to the driver door. He screams at her to get out of the car then opens the door and pulls her out himself. She explains that she was about to go home but he doesn't buy it and hugs her very tightly. He sets her down but still hugs her. She tells him that he was just so angry at her. Then she realizes what she was about to do and what it would've done to him. They finally made up and went home. The next morning Eliza gets a letter from Olivia Kane. The letter tells her that if she doesn't have the inspiration to finish the comic then it won't turn out good anyway, and that over time the inspiration may come back. Eliza also then apologizes Emmy and Max for disappearing for so long, and they immediately accept her apology. In the end, Eliza is happy, and so is Wallace, they both have therapists now. Wallace is back to playing football again and Eliza watches and realizes she really enjoys being outside. One day while Wallace is playing flag football outside Eliza comes to watch, and during a break he finally gives her the suprise kiss. After rereading the Children of Hypnos again, Eliza finally picks up her pencil again...