He could've opened it right then and there, making the whole process move quicker, but he slipped it into his jacket pocket, bringing his eyes back up to a normal level, moving forward. The paper was now his, it was no longer in a confused state of lost as well as found. It was simply found. Found by a boy who was blind to the hate in the world. Blind to love. A boy blind to loss.

I don't like One Direction. So can someone please tell me why I'm stuck on a game show with the five boys who have stolen millions of girls' hearts?

"Not just a flavour, but a way of life." When seventeen-year-old Flo Kennedy is forced to up sticks and trade her life in London for a sleepy seaside town on the south coast, she's anything but excited. Walden-on-Sea could win awards for being Britain's dullest town, and with a population consisting almost entirely of over sixties, teenagers are an endangered species. Silently struggling with her parents' death and separation from her sister, Flo's convinced she's in for the worst summer of her life. But when she meets the guy in the ice cream shop, things start to change. It's not long before she lands herself a job, a new set of friends and maybe even the beginnings of first romance. For the first time in several years, she's happy. But Flo knows all too well that things can't stay perfect forever, and after all, being on top of the world only gives you further to fall.

"My eyes fluttered open. The white surrounding was out of focus and my head hurt so much my vision started to blur. But I saw that tall frame standing up, half wanting to rush to me, the other half so reluctantly taking really small steps. He finally reached me. My conscious told me to be afraid of the stranger. But something inside me said otherwise. I tried to sit up but the wires kept holding me back down. I surrendered eventually, lying again motionless, curled up in the white blanket, feeling so small and fragile. He gently took hold of my hand and smiled. I know those bleeps were counting down my lifetime, but he was looking at me like I would live for infinity."

Julia, a senior in high school, is starting to lose faith and hope in life. She gets bullied daily and no one seems to care. Her hope and inspiration soon comes to light after meeting a boy that goes to the ends of the world and back to see her smile.©