❝ It all started and ended with Wednesday. ❞

Lorelai Wakely's life isn't what it seems to be. She never thought the truth of how she grew up would be so heinous. Now living in a completely different world than what she's used to, Lorelai has many difficult choices to make. Including, whether or not to accept help from mysterious Cohen Callahan to overcome her worst fear. Will she let him in or will she sink with no way to break through the surface?

Wren Martin is socially awkward. She blocks off herself to the world, hiding behind her favorite hoodie. All she wants to do is keep a low profile, and graduate well enough to qualify for a college scholarship. But then a babysitting job leads her to cross paths with Asher Reed, Eastview Highʼs notorious athlete. When a field injury kickstarts his senior year, heʼs turning his free time and attention to Wren. And maybe she might not want to be invisible after all. ***** [Watty's Collector's Edition Winner] [TFA Runaway Prize Winner] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Santoro

Elizabeth, or Liz, Morgan has only one goal: keeping her secret identity, well, a secret. Sure, she loves singing, and according to some of her followers, she's good at it. But that doesn't mean she's just going to go out to the world and start beating out lyrics for the whole world to hear. So she plays it safe, going on a private website where only other songwriters are exposed to each other's music. Come in David Styler, one of the most popular teen artists of his time. He's got everything: the look, the voice, the record deal. When David takes an unexpected break from his musical career to come back to high school, their two lives inevitably twist together through the one thing they have in common: their love of music. David makes Liz question everything she once believed, leaving only one question. Is it worth risking everything for the chance of something more?

"Give me ten days, and I can give you ten reasons not to die." Evan paused. "And if I can't change your mind by then, you can go jump off that cliff."

Top 25 Finalist for Target's Once Upon Now contest He's trapped. He couldn't breathe. The white walls were smothering him, the barred windows were taunting him, the ticking of the clock was killing him. Now the nurses, of course, they were there too, they were there constantly choking him, forcing the colored pills down his throat. He wasn't just the amusement of the place. No, he was the beast of the place. Adam was suffering from insanity. Insanity from being locked in one single room for eleven years. Eleven years he has been stuck in the psychiatric hospital. He couldn't get out and he couldn't be saved, so what was left for him? What was there for the beast besides death? There was only one answer, one answer that not even he knew just yet, but it would all start with a single name. That single name that would bring a new feeling to that white room. That single name being Belle. ----------- A/N: This story is entered into the "Once Upon Now" story contest by target. This story is my version of a modern day "Beauty and The Beast" Anyways, thanks for reading!(: Xx Cover made by: Playboystiles

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Seven letters, seven confessions, seven clues. Elliot Parker has what he needs to find out who killed his best friend... But is he hunting down the killer? Or is the killer hunting him? ***** When Colton Crest returns, unharmed, to his small town after mysteriously disappearing for two months, his best friend Elliot Parker breathes a sigh of relief. But days later, on the night before graduation, Elliot finds Colton in the lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, Elliot finds a letter in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiralling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. Elliot has no choice but to play this sick scavenger hunt, and with each new revelation, he begins to question whether he really knew Colton - or anyone else in that little town of dark secrets. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Emma Jacobs is like any other Californian girl who is only trying to survive high school. She’s happy with her group of friends, her brother and his wife, Caroline, and her secret talent. Emma can sing, and every Friday, she does just that. However, Emma is too shy to sing in front of anybody that may recognize her from school, so she drives to the next town over and performs every Friday at The Seaside Café. Emma is happy with her double life until there’s a bump in the road and her two lives begin to overlap just because of one boy who just so happens to work at the café. How will Emma keep her secret when the whole thing depends on Jace Parker, the school loner. And how can she keep the secrets of her demented past in the past if he is determined to pry into her history? Surely, all of her problems come back to The Seaside Café.

Rita Hayes thinks the academy she's newly admitted to is built specifically for vampires such as herself, only it isn't. Mythical creatures all over the world also goes to the same school; including cyclops who creeps her out, witches and warlocks whom she can never get along with, dwarves who scares the hell out of her, gargoyles, nicompaths or nincompoops (she doesn't remember), and worst of them all are werewolves whom she loathes with her entire being. Furthermore, she meets Kai Wuthrow, an infuriatingly hot werewolf and discovers a secret of his which no being on earth should never know. Will she be able to keep his secret? And will she be able to protect herself from him? Or will she fail and in the process get herself inexplicably killed... WARNING: SUPER RANDOM FIRST FEW CHAPTERS!

Victoria Grey's life was anything but normal. Her mother was an author, whose genre of choice was writing books for pregnant mothers. Her father was an eccentric archaeologist and history buff. Victoria didn't inherit anything from her parents except for their quirky personalities. Both sarcastic and strange, Victoria sees life through positive eyes. So when her mother's first completed book becomes a big seller, landing her a world wide book tour, and her father gets himself the deal of a lifetime to go on a dig to Egypt, Victoria is left to go live with her aunt, who is the executive in charge at a high-end fashion magazine. As a girl who couldn't care less about her appearance, Victoria is forced to work as an unpaid intern. Just when Victoria seems to lose sight of the positive side of life as complications with her job and school arise, she meets the devilishly handsome mail boy, who shows her how to see the good in life, even when it seems like there isn't any.