Everyone dies, someday and somehow. Sixteen year old Allie is dying of cancer. More than anything, she wants to be a normal teenager. But pretending is exhausting and the lies pile up. With a chance at first love and true friends, Allie must choose between maintaining the pretence or risking everything with the truth. Can Allie open her heart and embrace love? If you liked 'The Fault in Our Stars' by John Green or 'A Walk to Remember' by Nicholas Sparks, you'll love Awakening to Life.

I met her. I fell in love. She hated me. What's new about this story? Well...... I met her in a graveyard. 17 Year old Jamie Carlisle runs away from everything he knows, somehow he ends up in a graveyard where he meets the strange and beautiful Alesana Marks. He quickly falls in love with her insane personality, and although she swears she will never love him, he can't stop thinking about her. The girl in the graveyard. When Alesana finally does fall for him their parents forbid them to be together. Will they ever find a way to be with each other?

Nerdy Dakota Evans makes the biggest mistake of her life by falling in love with her best friend, Aaron Ford. Despite coming from entirely different cliques in school, will their relationship have a chance? *** In a high school where everyone belongs to cliques, nerdy and boyish Dakota Evans' friendship with basketball jock, Aaron Ford, becomes a big issue. Aaron's highly protective of Dakota and doesn't realize that she's in love with him. With their friendship eventually going on the rocks, will Aaron finally realize his true feelings for Dakota before it's too late? [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]]

Amelia is broke – no not heart broken, actually money broke. After losing her job, she is left with no money and with the date of the payment of the rent/bills coming up, she’s in need of a job – fast. But being at the age of seventeen and a full time scholarship student, how is she going to find a job at such short notice? On the edge of giving up, her good friend Cynthia tells her about a job that requires looking after four boys with a pay of 35 dollars per hour, Amelia immediately accepts despite having to go through all the trouble to create a fake resume and also to fake her age too! But with the assumption that the four boys were a young bunch, Amelia thought this babysitting job was going to be easy peasy. But only to see that these four boys were indeed not young but... Growing teenaged boys. Amelia Wilcox, meet the Harrison boys. (THIS IS THE NEWER VERSION OF LATHB!)

Hailey's life has been pretty normal and trouble free so far. If you categorise growing up with your all-male neighbours trouble free... After coming back from Australia to the US of A she comes back to more than just her home. She comes back to find that the McLane boys have know grown up into a family of 9 boys ranging from super hot to just plain adorable. What do you do when you're thrown back into the chaos that the McLane's call normal life? How do you deal with living among a male-dominated household? Is there a way to make a waterproof camera NOT water proof? Hailey may not have all the answers and she may be wondering these exact questions herself but join her anyway as she goes through the ups and downs of being a teenage girl hopelessly stuck in a life that's anything but normal. A/N: The first few chapters aren't really that good and the story may seem a bit slow at the start but it does get better if you keep reading! I got the main idea for my story from the book "Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan boys" and I also put in a few of my own experiences in too! (Only SOME things in here have happened to me, not everything!) Also! I am Australian.... sooooo if I get some facts wrong about how things go in the US i'm sorry! Thanks for all the support everyone! :) Luv u all xxStephxx

"His name was Noah Karson. He was just fifteen years old when he died." When Arianna Allen's life is ripped apart as her best friend dies, she is hopelessly carried along by life, trying to get through each day aided by alcohol, parties and one night stands. Her struggling mother sends her off to england to live with her father. Only when she arrives in england surprize after surprize awaits her. Her father has recently died in a car crash along with the twin sister she never knew she had. Desprate to escape her past Arianna moves in with her grandparents. Slotting in neatly to her sister's old life, replacing her unknown to her sisters friends and classmates. Only Arianna never expected to like her sister's friends, let alone fall in love with one!

Hannah Green has always relied on her friends, but when they start to drift away she finds herself alone in the world. Of course she has Cam; her best friend, but even he seems to be acting strangely around her. So she closes herself off to everyone around her, slowly loosing herself and the people she thought she could trust; she resorts to suicide. But her unfinished business doesn't allow her to move on. Invisible to almost everyone around her she watches her friends and family fall to pieces and in doing so uncovers more secrets and lies about her life than she could have ever dreamed of.

Katerina Herald has something to hide, something very real. Facing an absent mother and an especially angry father- she's become used to cowering. However, when the new student Cain Masters rolls in, he becomes intrigued by the struggle Kat faces. With his insistent prodding and her looming graduation from high school, can she really get by with a little help from her friends? Is survival possible in a house of hatred?

Cora Markings is a freak, according to her classmates. After an accident claims her father's life and Cora's voice, she Stuck On Mute. At 12 she was considered like a dog, no opinion. Now 17 she has gotten over the loss of her voice, so she claims. Her twin siblings, Kaylah and Luke, feel her pain and try not to add to it. Though when their family suddenly has to move, Cora is thrown into a new town, ready to be ridiculed. But, can Leo, A jock who takes notice to Cora, make her feel whole again? Cora pushes him away because after all, Who could love a mute girl?