[PLEASE READ REVISED VERSION INSTEAD (BLACK HOLES ALL THE WAY DOWN)] "You know, there are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it means nothing to them or it means everything." It's a year after Connor Mathews committed suicide, leaving his best friend Danielle lost and confused. The two shared everything since they were kids, so where were the signs? Why did Connor believe the world would be better off without him? Danielle is familiar with loss, but this news hits her like a bullet. Connor and Danielle were partners in crime. But with Connor gone, Danielle is just a lonely outsider with a slight temper and a high probability to self-destruct. After a few unlikely encounters that create a few unlikely friendships, Danielle begins to wonder if maybe not all surprises are bad. But without the answers she needs to erase the ambiguity surrounding Connor's death, how will she maintain a healthy life? Is it possible to live happily even in the face of everlasting unanswerable questions?

This is just me writing about music for the people that have asked for it. Not a story, just my sporadic rantings about whatever music or things that occur to me as I write it. "I wanna live in a dream in my record machine. I wanna piece of the world and everyone in my mouth. And all the money I waste is in a matter of taste. I wanna piece of the world and you can't make me spit it out."

"He sang her a serenade; one that was just as reckless as she was." Two broken people find the missing pieces of themselves in the other; both wanting to be fixed, they end up fixing each other. Oliver York; nineteen years old with no plans for the future. One fatal accident changed his life and his perspective. No longer the daring individual, or the enigmatic guitarist he once was, he was left hateful of all music. Quinn Stevens; eighteen year old rock star, and a symbol to the rebels of the world. With a smirk and a devil-may-care attitude, she hated the world and the world hated her back. She left a story behind, and never expected to be thrown back into it. Quinn wants to show Oliver how beautiful music is. Oliver wants to show Quinn how beautiful the simple things in life are. Two intertwining melodies; one reckless serenade.

Alice Carter is finally living her rock star dreams with her high school band, Shatter. To her disappointment though, it means being the supporting band for a new super star; the gorgeous, but arrogant River Johnson. After a stunt River pulls during their first show, Alice and River's lives are entangled in a seemingly unbreakable contract. Alice must learn to live with her new bad boy, band mate without falling for him like the rest of the world seems to have done. It's going to take guts and a lot of luck for her to keep the focus on what really matters; rock and roll.

(Completed)- Aria Cadence has lost her passion to sing. For seventeen years, what she once thought was a beautiful escape, is now an unspoken taboo.Her passion for singing has been torn, broken and beaten down to the point that she wants nothing to do with singing-or music for that matter-ever again. And whose to blame her? Having two successful parents in the music industry and an younger sister who is now America's next Taylor Swift puts a lot of pressure on a girl. Teegan Kemp is the exact opposite.He wants only one thing in life and that is to thrive in the music world. It's hard business all right, but he has the looks, the voice, and the charisma to make it. But one day is all it takes to change that. In that one fateful day, Teegan learns that he has a progressive disease that will slowly deteriorate his hearing until one day, he wont ever be able to hear again. When Teegan and Aria meet that fateful day in the hospital, Teegan instantly wants a friendship with the hard-shelled Aria. The only thing is, he wants to keep the loss of his hearing a secret to everyone-exspecially Aria. But it's easier said than done with hearts and dreams on the line. ~*~ *Completed on 10/31/13 Rankings: Chicklit #40 Romance: #156

Evelyn never wanted to be noticed at school. She dressed in unassuming clothes and kept to herself. Until the day that she slipped up and caught the attention of the school's bad boy. Gabriel had a bad reputation but after being paired together for a home economics project, Evelyn begins to realize that there's more to him than meets the eye. Will Evelyn let Gabriel into her double life? Will she ever let him hear her music?

In life there are things that are said, and then there are those that remain unsaid. For Keely Staub, her life mostly remained in the latter category. She kept the one true love, music, hidden from even her best friends. But when one song changed the world she lived in, shaking it to it's very core, everything she knows is about to change. Her future and a past even hidden from her collide as she wades through a world she'd never dared to dream of, allowing her half heart to maybe find an equally broken one in the unlikely source of Seth Ryan.

In Seth Ryan's own words.

Keely Staub has grown up. At least that's what she thinks has happened. No longer a naive eighteen year old being introduced to a music industry that's equal parts grandeur and grime, she might even be considered a veteran. At just twenty six, she's lived almost too much of a life in the intervening years since she first came to New York. A great love and a great band, not to mention more than a few unsavoury addictions picked up along the way in the time honoured traditions of the rock stars before her. And she gave it all up - except the rock star part, of course. That was a different Keely Staub, a more innocent and wild one all at the same time. She's determined that person and all the things that came with her will stay in the past, and has a very clear path laid in front of her. A measured, smart, hopefully one day respected, path. The problem is the past refuses to remain the past.

Allison Wright is the first to admit she has a great life. With good friends, perfect grades, a promising future and a family fortune stretching back generations; what's not to like? And besides her dislike of music, she fits in perfectly with her circle of friends. Yet as her senior year of high school begins and the pressures of University as well as the future start bearing down, she finds herself looking for something different. She’s just not quite sure what she’s looking for. That is until a passing mention and multiple encounters bring a boy she'd never met before to the forefront of her mind. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met. With his deep grey eyes, secrets and guitar; Cole Mathews might just be that dose of different she's been longing for.