"Just wondering, Shoemaker. Are you going to tell your parents? Or should I?" When I was little, I was terribly afraid of heights. One day, in a bleak attempt to rid me of this, my father climbed onto the roof of our one story house with me on his back. I may have been hyperventilating, but otherwise I was doing well- until my foot slid across the shingles. It was only a foot or two that I moved, but my heart stopped. Right now, I feel like I've slid ten feet down the roof of my house on a bitterly cold day. "Because, last I remember, aren't they kind of conservative?" he continues. August is a 16-year-old closeted bisexual girl. When a girl moves in next door, her calm life is slightly shaken, and then turned upside down. Because she isn't just any girl next door: Emily is a gorgeous, red-haired, baseball-playing, fully out-and-proud lesbian. When the two girls grow close, things begin to change in their small town. ***Cover made by Emmy07*** (FICTION) (ROMANCE) (HUMOR) (GIRLxGIRL) (GIRLxBOY) (C) 2012 S.W. Stromberg. All Rights Reserved.

Most bands aren't created at the hair salon, but we're not 'most bands', so I guess it makes sense. They call me Harvard, for reasons I still don't completely understand. I guess I was somewhat damned to be a musician with a name like that; not that it bothers me, I'm actually quite good at my job. I'll tell you, none of us expected to get to the top of the charts. In fact, our humility about our skills stretches so far that you could say we actually think ourselves to be quite bad, which, according to our many critics, is a huge white lie. I guess I should tell you what this is. Hello, welcome to my story, where I tell you about how my band was born. This is my The Amazing Book is Not on Fire to Dan Howell and Phil Lester, my I Am Malala to Malala Yousafzai. This is the story of my life. (If you 1D fangirls tell me you didn't just hum Story of My Life then you sit on a throne of lies.) Well, the story of Double Dare, I guess. But before you turn the page, listen when I say this: you are about to enter the mind of an emo, a fangirl, a literature lover, and a music fanatic. Don't say I didn't warn you... ****This is a work of fiction. The band Double Dare does not exist, and all characters are made-up. Just a heads up.