Sophie Green Is a nerd. Everyone picks on her. There is only one person who protects her and when he is not around they pick on her twice as much. What would happen if her schools most popular jock in the school, takes a sudden like to her? Will she trust him after all the bullying he has done to her? Why is he talking to her? Is it a bet? Or does he really like her? Is that even possible?

Exploring pathways of the creative journey.

i know who i am. and i know who i do not want to be. i am easy in my own skin even while i struggle. i am anything but perfect, but that is okay. and i love the ocean. many of these have something to do with that. i also love people who live there. the rest of these have something to do with them. some have nothing to do with either.

Danielle Davis has lived the 17 years of her life without a boyfriend. After a freak incident at her school in Amherst, her parents decided it would be best to move to a larger city where Danielle could make better friends and live her teenage years to the fullest. However, a sudden move from a small town to a big city will do more harm than justice to the pristine Danielle. At her new school, Central High, where everyone knows everyone, Danielle’s secluded lifestyle was suddenly fleeting. After a series of incidents, she ends up giving the most popular boy in school a haircut, earning her more haters than Justin Bieber and putting her at the center of attention at Central High. To make matters worse, this head-honcho, Daniel Sanders, plans to make it his goal to steal all of Danielle’s ‘firsts’ and does so by stealing her first kiss in front of the whole school. Danielle definitely won’t let this get to her as she decides to play this game with him with all her might. Problem is, Danielle might just be falling for him?! And what happens when Danielle admits she likes him, but he drops the game and ignores her? Danielle won't just let this go because he's her first love. People say first love never works out, but Danielle will try to prove people wrong and make it happen! A story of the innocence, first love, and growth of two teenagers over the course of two years. Inspired by the manga Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu.

Elisa Taylor is a high school teacher who is only nineteen and teaching to get her credits. Watching students grow up turned out to be one of her favourite things to do in the limited time she was a teacher, from that gangly, awkward phase into the smooth ladies' man, or from the insecure nerdy girl with glasses into an outspoken, confident and well-liked girl. All the transformations amazed her. Of course, whenever anyone needed help, she'd offer them her hand. All was fine and dandy until she met Blake Manson. He was basketball captain from his old school and then got sent into a youth rehabilitation centre for getting into a messy, bloody fight with the rival school. Due to his good behavior, he got permission to go to school in the morning and return to the centre in the afternoon. But for that to happen he'd have to transfer schools, to avoid another fight. He was posted to the school Elisa was teaching at, and became her student. He was feared by his fellow classmates for his notorious past. Still, she decided he was worth saving. Throw in some cigarettes, drugs, gangs, fights and - not forgetting - a rocky romance. After all, this was THE Blake Manson.