skinny love : (n.) when two people love each other, but are too shy to admit it, even though they still show it. Paristella's Contest ~ Round 2 [ Short Story #54 / Romance #240 ]

Willow is an outcast. At school, she's kept at a distance by almost everyone and everything, including her very own guidance counselor, all for three extremely pathetic reasons. One: She has angel bites, the two twin piercings above your lip. Some people find these horrific. Two: She doesn't talk unless she has to. Not exactly mute, but when she does decide to speak every now and then, people get overwhelmed. Three: She always writes the word "ripe" on her wrist every day in Sharpie. It's considered strange. Willow doesn't mind being an introvert... too much. However, when Andrew, a guy that everyone also labels as an outcast, starts bickering with her, Willow can't help to respond to it. Who knows? Maybe Willow isn't ripe after all... and maybe Andrew isn't, either.

In which I am you, you are me, and we are the moments that define us.

“The day I died was the day I fell in love” -- A dying young man dramatically falls in love within the last moments of his life - not due to her exceptional beauty, no, nor because of the mesmerizing laugh that captivated him from the start, simply because she stayed with him ‘til the very end.

**BOOK 2** Selena Stone was born and breed a dancer. Her life revolved around competitions, planes, flights and schedules. Being an ordinary high school girl has always been out of her grasp. Until she met Cameron. The guy who had everything, and everyone.

It all started that summer. That wonderful, glorious, hair blowing summer, when everything changed. Mom and Dad split, my best friend Grace moved away, and the only crush that I've had my whole entire life decided to chase another girl. Isn't it crazy how you'd think you'll have the greatest summer, but it ends like you dreamed it wouldn't? Exactly. Not to mention, you'd be starting school as a freshman. Alone. How could you make it? Welcome to the mind of Juliet Laightan Carpenter.

"Not just a flavour, but a way of life." When seventeen-year-old Flo Kennedy is forced to up sticks and trade her life in London for a sleepy seaside town on the south coast, she's anything but excited. Walden-on-Sea could win awards for being Britain's dullest town, and with a population consisting almost entirely of over sixties, teenagers are an endangered species. Silently struggling with her parents' death and separation from her sister, Flo's convinced she's in for the worst summer of her life. But when she meets the guy in the ice cream shop, things start to change. It's not long before she lands herself a job, a new set of friends and maybe even the beginnings of first romance. For the first time in several years, she's happy. But Flo knows all too well that things can't stay perfect forever, and after all, being on top of the world only gives you further to fall.

"Sometimes happiness feels like a chore." A short story chronicling the relationships (and lack thereof) of Drew; in which nights and days are spent curled up in the tear-and-food-stained sheets, with and without the warmth of another living soul, because he has lived like this and he'll probably die like this -- whether he likes it or not. (As if life ever bothered to ask). Otherwise known as: Sleep is for the weak, and love is for those asleep. So Andrew shouldn't wonder why he's virtually a self-induced insomniac who might just very well die of loneliness one day.

(Completed; this is one of my older works so it's not as good as some of my others) Ella Heck is your average 16 year old, except for one thing, a picture accidentally taken of a girl at school comes to life on her. Now the picture is giving her love advice(while screaming her head off). Will Ella finally find love? Will she finally get a boyfriend? Find out in this humorous fantasy love book. All rights reserved to @Writer_4ever. Do not copy. Photos do not belong to me, they belong to their rightful owners. Wattpad 2014

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