querencia- (n.) a place from which one's strength is drawn, where one feels most at home; a place where you can be your most authentic self --- "I don't need fixing! I'm not just something you can fix. I don't need a remedy. You can't try to fix me and make me new!" "Pipes-" he starts even through he knows I'm not done. "No! If you really want me, for me, you need to love me for me. Seizures, dramatic family, and protective best friends and all." --- We all have our own talents that make us who we are, and at Richmond Academy for the Art, they praise and appreciate them, giving kids all around the globe the opportunity to test theirs and let them have a great opportunity to make a future with their talents. Josephine, Jay, Quinn, daughter multi-billionaires of Peter and Cassidy Quinn, owners of Quinn Magazines. Being the fourth out of eight daughter, all having different talents at Richmond Academy for the Arts, hers being drawing and painting. Azalea Kai, Jay's best friend. After her family is taken out of South Africa with her dad being an actor and traveling, she moves to LA at age 10. After meeting Jay she finds a sudden new love with singing and performing. Shawn Smith, son of artist and single mom, Barbara Smith. For never knowing his father, Shawn spends all of his time painting, and crushing over his best friend Azalea. And Nathan Ryan, the new kid at Richmond. After leaving his hometown of New York City, New York and moving to LA with his mother and younger brother. With a rocky past but a bright future, he meets Shawn, Azalea and Jay.

You think that your life can't get any worse than your dad leaving you and your mom getting arrested, being dragged across the country like a sack of potatoes, not to mention the 3,000 miles away from your mom who you keep thinking can better herself, even after all the times she's showed her to lose faith. But then, you have to fall in love with your best friend's cousin. Eff my freaking life. ••• sequel to chance ••• Song; Unsteady by X Ambassadors

Kade is captain of the swim team. He could get any girl, but he has his eyes on a certain red head nerd. She sees it as him downsizing to her, but really, she's out of his league. song: Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars -part two- All Emilia had ever wanted was to fit in. But due to her major lack of iron and the growth curve of a 10 year old during her 16th year, she can't have it. She's constantly bullied, teased, call it was you will but it's terrible. And then Boyd Winters comes along and shows her it's ok to be yourself. song: Stranger by Secondhand Serenade