"Every part of me is yours, Lucy. Every fucking broken piece belongs to you." * * * * It was the night of Lucy King's eighteenth birthday when she stumbled into Bombshell's, a bar that plays live music on the weekends. Insert Benji Meyer, the lead singer of a pop-punk band called Reset Space. While Benji's living the dream with his band, Lucy is stuck working in her grandma's bakery because of her mom's short leash. Christmas is nearing and Lucy is feeling too shut in by her over protective parents. She's been home schooled since she entered middle school and hasn't seen the outside world much since. And it doesn't help that she's falling for a guy with tattoos, a few piercings, and devious green eyes. Everything about Benji is off limits, but that doesn't stop Lucy. This is a story about stolen kisses, forbidden nights out, a little trouble, and cupcakes. There will be cupcakes. * * * *There will be strong language and the romance will boarder new adult. So if you can't handle that, don't read. Also, this is NOT a good girl/bad boy story. But I hope you like it!

❝ Don't be afraid of the shadow at the end of the tunnel. It only means that there is a light nearby ❞ Juniper Stauff was an outgoing, enthusiastic, forever smiling girl. She also considered herself to be a superhero for she was the one who restored what was destroyed within the walls of Phantom High. All that ended when this little superhero decided to rebel and pursue her hearts most true desires. Was Juniper going to achieve what her heart wanted so badly or was her heart going to end up wounded in the process? She already had a deteriorating heart so what else did she have to lose? { Copyright © republicans. All Rights Reserved }

Kaia Sawyer needs help, but is too stubborn to look for it. Jacob Beck needs help, something he doesn't want to admit. Kaia needs the one person who can help, the one who came back. Jacob has only one person who can help, the girl he left behind six years ago. Can the two of them put aside their differences to help themselves and in doing so, help each other? Can Kaia save her old best friend from a life he doesn't want to live? Can Jacob save Kaia from a life she doesn't think is worth living?

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.

Hollie has been a bad girl ever since she was little girl. She used to make fun of other kids, push them around, cause trouble and make her parents go insane. Levi has been a good guy all his life. He always had perfect grades, never did anything bad and respected his parents like every kid should. When Hollie has trouble with her family, she crashes at Levi's for a few days, hoping her parents would just calm down and she could go home. But everyone knows that opposites attract and when Levi and Hollie spend the night together, they find themselves unable to leave each others' company. © Copyright 2015 Charlie Jones. All Rights Reserved.

Kennedy Moore is going to be a famous journalist. With her facts and hard head, she's sure to get all the answers she needs. But first, she needs to get through high school. So, she's set her sights on being a part of the newspaper team, but when it's full, she's forced to join yearbook. But it's not all bad when she meets Mason, an artsy, wise and cute boy. Maybe Mason can change Kennedy's perspective on the world and more importantly, men..... {Part of the Five Girls, Five Guys group. You can read them in any order though}

[FEATURED STORY] At school, they were nothing. At midnight, they were lovers. Because one minute after midnight... a rich girl and a boy who came from nothing found something they had in common. © 2014 All rights reserved | Short-Story #2 | Humour #25 |

Ophelia Morgan was always viewing herself in parallels. While she thought she was the ‘bigger’ girl and could be spotted miles away, she also thought she was invisible in the eyes of those around her. Her self-conscience nature made it hard for her to look at herself in the mirror. And if she couldn’t love herself…who else could?

Violet Maverick had always harbored a crush for her best friend Finn Orland. But she knew better to keep it a secret when it came to Finn simply because they always worked so much better as friends. By now she’s forced herself to believe that Finn would never view the girl he used to see in diapers as girlfriend material. That is, until Finn decides he has a secret of his own that he’s dying to spill on the busiest night of the year for Violet: Christmas Eve. Working as one of Santa’s elves in the city’s largest mall during the holidays meant that Violet didn’t have time to go somewhere to “talk” like Finn wanted. Little does she know, Finn’s got a few tricks up his sleeves to make her ditch her post at the artificially snow covered house with Santa’s other helpers. Will Violet end up tangled beneath the Christmas lights with Finn by the end of the night? Or will she end up stuck beneath children’s grabby hands and broken tree ornaments before she gives Finn the chance to spill his secret?

A collection of moments from the lives of two high school seniors who are struggling to leave the past behind as they prepare to leave for college.