It has to suck when your mom gets more action than you do. Not that it's Alex Avery's fault. After all, she's the geekiest girl in the grade, she's stuck with the worst crowd in school, and her mother marries a new guy every year. Oh, and she's lesbian. When Mrs. Avery threatens to take away everything that matters to her daughter, Alex knows she'd better shape up and do what her mom wants. The only problem? Her mother is making her find a boy to date. For her Sweet Sixteen. To which she has to invite the most popular girl in the grade. Who doesn't even know her name. In the words of said popular girl, "How fab!"

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021

There in those city lights, there was no her and there was no him. There was just everything and nothing and the spaces in between, like flickering lights against a never-ending, black sky. There in those city lights, there was no love and there was no hate. There was just listening and talking and understanding every single thing, like the 'ready, stop, go' of car-chasers and dream-makers. There in those city lights, there was no sadness and there was no happiness. There was just candid smiles and wasted tears and bottom lips chewed off, like the overflowing boulevard of things unseen. There in those city lights, there was no lady and there was no man. There was just a boy and a girl, who promised to fall in love, not with each other, but in those city lights. [a blind collaboration by @hepburnettes & @cityscape]