Josh Owens. 15. For the past 4 years of my life I have been abused regularly by my parents and let me tell you, that is NOT pretty. For most of my life I've been abused, used, almost beaten to death, yet I still want to live day for day. Waiting for a miracle to happen. Waiting for these bullies to leave me alone. Waiting for my parents to move on about my sisters death and love me like they did her. But this won't happen without trying a few changes. I want to be loved truly, looked up to, be known where I live. Not be some unknown little freak in the corner who no one wants to be friends with. Welcome to my shitty life which I'm soon about to change, follow me through the ups and downs of life. Caution: This story contains Drugs, Alcohol and Abuse. If you don't like any of these things the homepage buttons somewhere up there people.

Elena Carter was living her life leisurely until Nathan Greene came along. Though she finds him and his snobbish ways annoying, there’s something about him that attracts Elena the way a moth finds itself drawn to light. When her ex-boyfriend, Mark, admits that he still loves her, and when her best friend, Nic, tries to fight his growing attraction for her…How will Elena handle the drama their conflicting emotions bring? Moreover, who among them will win her heart? [A/N: Previously entitled: KISS THE RAIN]

Feeling like she was losing herself (and her mind) all that Kyla Mendez, an aspiring pastry chef, wanted was to get away from everything and everyone familiar. And so regardless of her parents’ disapproval she packed her bags with her (insufficient) savings and boarded a plane heading anywhere. Now, stuck in a new city with no money to her name and no one to turn to, she needed to have a contingency plan. But how do you pick-up the pieces of your life after leaving all that you had behind? Henry Jacob had just been given the chance to prove he could handle bigger responsibilities now that he’s 27. But things are looking a little bleak. He was on a tight budget to start his own business and the property he inherited from his grandmother was an old three-story bodega stuck in the corner street where people from near houses dump their trash to be picked up by the garbage collector. It was stinky, small and well---old, but it has potential. It has to or he’ll be stuck with a useless piece of property only good for garbage disposal. These two are caught in an odd predicament as they find themselves shacked up in the same house working together to revive an old coffee house called 'Galiana's' back to its former glory. They need each other to succeed (not that either, stubborn as they are, would admit to it) but can they handle living and working together closely when he's hell-bent on having things done his way and she runs away at the first sign of trouble?

After escaping from police custody, Clover tries to piece his life back together. Determined to return to home and be reunited with his family, he has to first elude the country wide man hunt. Will he be able to resist his old ways in order to remain undetected? After hearing that Colin has escaped, Summer and Becca prepare themselves for the inevitable; Clover is coming back for them. Will the police and their families be enough to protect them? Clover's coming back and he's determined to prove to the girls; 'You'll always be mine'.

This is based on a true story, with some modifications to the story :) This story is about a nine year old girl called Lily, who finds out about a medical condition. Will she choose to go through with the treatment? Will it change her life? And will it affect her friends?