Nerdy Dakota Evans makes the biggest mistake of her life by falling in love with her best friend, Aaron Ford. Despite coming from entirely different cliques in school, will their relationship have a chance? *** In a high school where everyone belongs to cliques, nerdy and boyish Dakota Evans' friendship with basketball jock, Aaron Ford, becomes a big issue. Aaron's highly protective of Dakota and doesn't realize that she's in love with him. With their friendship eventually going on the rocks, will Aaron finally realize his true feelings for Dakota before it's too late? [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]]

Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there. Cara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Kendra covets the perfect face and body—no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. To score his perfect home run—on the field and off—Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back. And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he’ll be living a life his ancestors would never have understood. Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect? A riveting and startling companion to the bestselling Impulse, Ellen Hopkins’s Perfect exposes the harsh truths about what it takes to grow up and grow into our own skins, our own selves. ***Listen to the attached videos to hear the characters read an audio version of "Perfect", voiced by various actors.***

Me and james (my brother's best friend) had been dating for a long time so i decided i wanted to have sex with him...it wasnt my first but with him it was special...he didnt use a condom..if my brother ever found out we had sex he would kill me and james especially because we didnt use a condom. Im dearly in love with him but i dont know what to do......

Stting on her balcony one night Jamie is visited by the man of her dreams, the only problem is he lies--compulsively. She knows that he wrong for her--it's blatantly obvious but there's just something about him that makes him hard to deny. Slowly he introduces her to the world he's accustomed and she believes all is well until a bitter betrayal sends her spiraling further than she can return. Without any reason or even so much of an explanation she is mercilessly handed over by Demetrius. After such a betrayal life couldn't get much worse until discoveries are made and secrets uncovered that were perhaps better left a secret

This is the first story I'm writing. Any reads/ comments are muchly appreciated so I can do better.