Un gând ca șase minți, un jurnal ca unul singur. Cine va fi prins între colți? © 2013 by madamenona, Waterlilac, Biancalena, radacina, Noiembrie și BlancheB

One bridge. Two guys. Three secrets. Four therapists. Five attempts. Six months. Seven bad habits. Eight family meetings. Nine visits. Ten cuts. One death. Spiritual #4

Nu o să mă trezesc într-o dimineață și o să urlu că viața e frumoasă. Nu o să mă bucur niciodată cu ce am, când pot să vreau mai mult. Viața nu e frumoasă; nu când nouă ne-au murit toți eroii și-a rămas doar fumul. Așa că voi trece prin liceu vopsindu-mi cerul negru în fiecare dimineață, născându-mă din nou, în fiecare dimineață. Ăștia suntem. Puțim a prospețime pentru că așa, negri, sălbatici, cum ne văd toți suntem cele mai proaspete ființe din tot universul.

"Hey, Stephen, I could give you fifty reasons why I should be the one you choose. All those other girls, well they're beautiful, but would they write a song for you?" - - - - - - - - - - Melanie Elwood had absolutely no hope in surviving her last year of high school happily. It's bad enough to be the new girl. It's even worse when you're the new girl for your senior year. But the teachers are really nice, and the food is really good, and she's got a parking spot right up front. And eventually, Mel thinks things will be okay. Especially when she meets Stephen Aimes. It's just that, unfortunately, she has competition. A lot of competition.

Colton Pearce is annoying, a flirt, and definitely not in Cassidy's ten-year plan. Then again, neither is falling in love. When their English teacher hires them to clean his grandmother's house for the summer, she discovers that there may be more to Colton than meets the eye. Through a valuable baseball card, strained relationships with fathers, and much dust, Cassidy and Colton might discover forty-seven uses for a paperclip and -possibly -even love along the way. Center cover image copyright 2011 by Worlds Apart Photography

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. *** Claire is lost and scared and utterly alone. Her family is in shambles after the death of her older sister Ina, and she's left to pick up the broken pieces of herself as her life heads into a downwards spiral of loneliness. Her heart leads her to 5:48, a little cafe by 33rd street, where she finds her new home. With a broken heart and a speech disability, Jasper has his heart and mouth sewn shut by the winding threads of hurt and fear. Painting and serving coffee in cafe 5:48 are one of his last few saving graces, but the smile he's been painting on himself will soon fade away as everything he's ever held dear slips away from his grasp. Ezra is out-of-sync and oddly cold by the way life has treated his young self. Abandoned by his single mother at an early age, he has grown up thinking that he is a mistake. His constant shaking hands are a reflection of what he often thinks of himself, but the delightful pastries he bakes for 5:48's customers are a reflection of what others see of him. Drew is a quirky rarity. He is a dash of loud, a pinch of exuberant, and a cup of eccentric - just like the meals he serves in the cafe as the only chef there. Behind his playful grins and outlandish clothes, however, are his jutting ribs, hollowed cheeks, and too-thin arms. Sometimes he cannot stomach being in his own skin as much as he cannot stomach food. This family has gone a long way from finding each other, and they'll be going a long way together too as reality comes catching up to them, threatening the newfound happiness they've found with each other. Secrets are revealed, pasts become presents, and lives are changed. Slowly but surely, they find their way back home. *** NOTE AS OF 08/2026: This is the old version of the story from 2012, posted in FULL. Another story that will be considered a reprise of this old version is in the works, and will be posted under the name "Hiraya House."