A cluster of poems, beautiful thoughts and a tragic end for the unknown quiet girl.

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * NOTE AS OF 04/2026: This is the old version of the story from 2012. It is currently being reprised, which you can also find under my profile here in wattpad as "5:48 [reprised]"

Those three words on the napkin were what made it worth keeping. "I love you."

I was collecting the coins from the back of the Space Invaders machine when you walked in. I'd never seen you around before, but for some reason I could tell you weren't new in town. The funny thing about it all though, was that the old, battered but still working pinball machine that I had sworn I'd never touch again was what kick-started our friendship. { slow updates }

Reid has been homeless on the streets of New York for years now, fighting for cash in clubs and sleeping in empty buildings. With his special ability, Reid could have whatever life he wanted, but chooses not to. When Sam meets Reid on the subway, she has a hard time forgetting about him, and not only because he keeps showing up in the least likely of places. Sam doesn't know it at first, but the boy she just met is about to show her a whole other world.

"How do you choose from three kinds of perfect?" * * * * * Most people know me as the smartest girl in school but my real name is Sara Preston. My life changed when I wore a dress with more sparkle than a disco ball The football captain who was my childhood best friend. An Honors student with the most amazing blue eyes and a British accent. My childhood nemesis who could disarm a nuclear bomb with his smile. How do you choose from three kinds of perfect? You just can't. Copyright © 2013 CrayonChomper cover by @FvckHumans

Being the new girl is hard. But being the new girl that shows up on her first day of school accompanied by the three hottest guys on campus is even harder. You could practically see 99% of the school's female population seething with jealousy as soon as they pulled into the parking lot. I mean, I would be too if some chick I'd never seen before turned up squashed between two Greek Gods with another one at the wheel. So you see, when Cassandra's parents decided to move from their nice, quiet, typical suburban town to a little dot on the coast known as Bells Bay, she didn't think her life would change THAT drastically. But of course, fate and an extremely attractive boy by the name of Shane Ryder just had to intervene and prove her wrong. She is Cassandra Greene after all, and nothing usually goes her way.