❝Roses have thorns, my dear, but so do you. ❞ In which Jan falls into an existential crisis, and Pete is there for her, if only in the form of words on her screen.

Ariel Evans was rejected. No a guy didn't stand her up on a date, she didn't lean in for a kiss and he leaned out nope she was rejected from the soccer team. Which consists of the boys, the five guys who were known to break hearts and bones if it came to that. 5 boys , 5 days and 5 pranks later. She was done, enough of the sexism , enough of the games the boys played on and off the pitch. Standing up for the entire female population- minus a few -she sets out to not only hurt them but to break them, falling isn't an option even in her 5 inch heels. However as relationships grow and relationships break, dirty secretes are uncovered, pushed into dangerous situations Ariel must decide whether to stick with the boys or run away with the winning ball. The game is nearly over and only the best will survive.

❝run-on sentence - in which two independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation and conjunctions.❞ Ellie had always been an introvert. She would rather stay home to watch her favorite TV shows, cleaning out a jar of peanut butter and occasionally rereading Pride and Prejudice for the nth time while the rest of the world continued to socialize. Wes had always been good at making friends. He could buy some Gatorade at a convenience store and end up befriending the middle-aged cashier behind the counter or ride the bus and end up having fifty inside jokes with his seatmate before he gets to his stop. Together, they were like a run-on sentence: Two entirely separate thoughts colliding with each other to form a string of words, woven together together to form a chaotic kind of beauty. --- Cover by Kodie (@deadlier)

"I have a few guidelines for you, but don't worry it's not rocket science: 1. Do not talk too much around me. 2. Do not laugh obnoxiously around me. 3. Do not ask me too many questions. 4. Do not get into any trouble and drag me into it. 5. Do not interfere with my personal life. Do you think you can do this?" I'm not that bad of a person. I can follow rules, I mean I've been a good student since like kindergarten. "Seems easy enough." Like really, I'm not that bad. "One more thing," Alex looks at me straight in the eye, "never kick me in places that shouldn't be kicked. Ever. Again." Okay, maybe I'm not the best person in the world.

In which Kiara Bergmann meets a German boy who should've been buried over two hundred years ago. [Extended summary inside] #22 Short Story #115 Humor

Coraline "Coco" Mathews has never been the biggest fan of cliches. All she wants is to make it through senior year alive with her two best friends by her side, without being involved in any unnecessary drama. So, imagine her frustration when her life actually turns into something straight out of a cliche rom-com. Determined to escape the mess she has gotten herself into, she has to work hard and that involves rejecting the advances of all her pursuers, who also happen to be ridiculously good looking. After all, three's a crowd. Isn't it?

When the quiet girl in Clayton Hugh's chemistry class comes knocking on his door at five in the morning barely covered up in her little pajamas, inattentive, and drooling like crazy, he has no choice but to take her inside. But once Lucy Walker wakes up inside a room she has never seen before wearing an over-sized t-shirt and gym shorts, you can imagine the pure panic setting in her. The subtle addition of Clayton entering the room shirtless doesn't help much either. After three years of fawning over him, leave it up to her sleepwalking to finally get Clayton Hugh to notice her.