WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Adrift after a failed suicide attempt, golden boy Everest can't find anything worth living for - until he meets Beverly, a loner determined to prove him wrong. ***** For a boy who seemed to have it all - wealth, good looks, popularity, a wide circle of friends - Everest Finley becomes the ultimate social outcast after failing to take his own life. Dejected and alone, he starts his last year of high school by acting out, determined to ruin his golden boy reputation after his best friend and girlfriend both turn on him. But to his surprise, resident loner Beverly Davis reaches out and tries to befriend him. Ever the optimistic, her empathy and persistence eventually convinces him to spend time with her, and the two slowly bond over their complicated family lives and a love of singing. But even as their budding friendship begins to hint at something more, Everest continues to struggle with depression and unhappiness. Can a simple pact between the two truly encourage him to find something worth living for? Content and/or Trigger Warning: this story contains mentions and descriptions of depression and self harm. -SKY

When Ellie Reinhart started the 'Ribbon Campaign' in support of her brother and his boyfriend, she didn't expect it to grow into what it is. But it does. And that's where Bryce Newman comes in.

Berkley Roberts is a college student in an abusive relationship until one day BJ pushes her too far. Betrayed by Laura, Dane Knight is a single father, struggling to balance work, women and his troubled son. He desperately needs a full time Nanny on site 24/7 to help him with his troubled 3 year old Ethan. Seeing Ethan struggling and falling behind, Danes mother takes matters into her own hands and hires Berkley to care for her grandson. Considering she is a beautiful brunette with stunning jade eyes instead of the middle aged prude of choice, Cybil hires her under the condition that she not fall prey to Dane and his charms. Soon Berkley finds her heart wrapped around the little finger of a small boy who clings to her to fill the void left by his mother. Dane wants nothing more than for his son to have a mother, someday, but his work is challenging him more and the last thing he has time for is a relationship. Berkley is emotionally scarred and hiding from her past, accepts Danes generosity taking refuge in his home. Battered and broken, can Berkley let her guard down and leave her heart defenseless? Can Dane learn to trust again? Will their 'Love of Ethan' pull them together or are they both too damaged?

There are a lot of things that go through a person's mind as they die. Perhaps even more things as a person commits suicide. As they struggle for breath, or watch their blood drip down a drain. Perhaps as they fall into raging water or off of a cliff into oblivion. They could be calm, or completely terrified. They think of their loved ones, good memories and things they'll miss. White clouds on a spring morning, or chocolate ice cream. One thing they don't usually think about is what's waiting for them on the other side. A place where Broken, people who kill themselves, reside. Broken have no choice but to travel to earth over and over again, helping other depressed people hit rock bottom, and only being able to go back to the Land of the Broken when their Project is finished. Just doing what they're told. Melanie, dead at sixteen, has witnessed so many deaths. She's been aware of each of them. And she's beyond ready to turn the tables. © Copyright livelove_write 2014

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021

Lindsey Clarke, 16 and free. But somehow, freedom and happiness does not really come in a package. "Anorexia nervosa, depression, self harm, social anxieties are not just phases of life. They become your closest friends and haunt you every step of the way." , is what I say. "It's just a phase", is what they all say.