Blood Is A Metaphor — Michael John Melton

Agi is happy to get back to school, and away from the Redshield family. She has spent most of her life in boarding school, and is glad to be back with her friends. Agi doesn't consider herself to be a pretty girl, but when two of the most popular boys in school start fighting over who gets to dance with her, she starts to wonder. Her best friend warns her about what happens to girls who get too popular at The Melton Conservatory, but Agi ignores her. Agi didn't know anything about the system, and her ignorance would cost her something that she cherished more than all the money in the world.