Vanessa Laine is a college student and aspiring musician. She's got the look and she's got the voice. The only thing that's stopping her is her stage fright...and an opportunity. But opportunity knocks when pop-punk band, The Velocity, holds auditions for a new lead singer at the restaurant that Vanessa works at. Getting in was the easy part. Surviving as the only girl in the band is the hard part. Can she do it?

❝ you're the only boy who's ever made me forget about all the bad, you're my distraction ❞ © hemmkinks **warning: deals with depression/self harm/suicide throughout much of the story, don't read if this is a triggering subject for you.

Mia Duffy is a pretty average 19 year old. She has a slightly annoying 16 year old sister named Logan, she has her license, she finished school, she has a job all that kind of stuff. But her job is far from any normal job. Mia is a hitwoman who kills people for money.

He taps his foot against the carpeted floor of his therapist's office, wondering if he should say it. If he should even say her name out loud. He hasn't done that in at least a year. He'd never say it; especially not in front of his friends. As the therapist, a middle-aged woman in a grey pantsuit, takes notes on his progress, he clears his throat and decides to speak, "She's coming back from California. Today." She looks up, "Who?" It takes him a while. He has to work up the nerve to say it. "Maddie," he says, picking at his nails. He only mentioned her name once, in his first session last year, but the therapist nods. She was the only good thing he's ever mentioned. "Something bad happened, I think." Cover art by Brigid Vaughn (burdge on deviant art) #freementalillness

"Locked out again, dork?"

In which a boy with a bad habit of getting himself drunk learns that sex isn't everything.

You can't touch anyone. At all. It's against the law.

"Don't sit next to me." "Why not?" "I'm ugly." "Nice to meet you ugly, I'm blind."

In which a fan introduces Ashton Irwin to the world of fanfiction. © 2014 webby | bonnaroo

"I fucking love you."