A collection of my poetry(:

In this day and age, what truly defines being normal? What would you do just to fit in? (FIN)

High school is hard for most people and for Chloe Miller, this is no exception. She is forced to learn the perils of her choices the hard way and the result leads her to building a steel wall around herself that is impossible to crack. Eventually, her mother loses her job and Chloe is then forced to move in with her cousin and their family. This means a new school and on the first day she arrives with a dynamite mission in mind. A mission to reclaim everything that she had once lost at the hands of others. She quickly finds herself fighting a past that she struggles to forget and creating a future that she can live with. It becomes a constant battle for her, centered around peer pressure, character stereo types, cliques and consequences. Couple that with the plight of falling in love and she finds herself playing a starring role in the game of life where everyone is playing for keeps. Will she win... or will she lose? Excerpt: Sauntering forwards, she slid onto his lap with all the grace of a prima ballerina and wrapped her long arms around his neck. Leaning in to his ear, she blew out a little puff of hot air so that it fanned lightly over all the right places. She felt a sense of utter satisfaction when he shuddered. Now that Chloe was certain that she had his attention, she whispered in his ear. “You may have been the best bucko, but guess what…..I’m going to be better.” She lifted up so that she could look him in the face and smiled confidently back at him. His previous cocky demeanor had seemed to have lost some of its earlier steam, “Who are you?” he asked so low that only Chloe could hear him. His forehead was creased as he searched her face, watching her as if she was some type of strange puzzle that needed to be solved. Chloe lifted her hand patted his cheek. The boy didn’t have a clue. “I, my friend, am your biggest adversary. So what do you say Mr. Player, won’t you play with me?”

Raine Jenkins was thrown into the world of beauty pageants before she was even able to speak. She loved them when she was young, and has become a legend in the beauty pageant world. Now she's sixteen, and is beginning to hate the world of perfection. That's why she created her alter ego, her own bad girl image. Rider Girl. Rider girl, is a drag racing star, un-deafeted and un-stoppable. Until she meets, the only other un-deafeted drag racing star Zane. In his mind, woman shouldn't be able to race, and he intends to keep it that way. So now since he's also living in her home and he knows her secret she is a tough decision. Give up her world of drag racing to be the perfect daughter, or drop the charade of playing dress up and be a failure in her parents eyes. Tough decisions come with life changing conclusions.