Emily Mathews is a 15 years old high school Sophomore in a terrible school filled with jerks, bullies and Socs. She's a Greaser, just like her brother Two-Bit and his friends. She's not very popular and spends all of her time with Two's gang, including her best friend and crush Sodapop Curtis. Emily is already depressed, but when she gets the shock of her life from Soda, things go even more downhill. Trigger warning for mentions of self harm and suicide. **THIS IS DEFINITELY A SODAPOP LOVE STORY, I PROMISE. IT MAY NOT SEEM LIKE ONE AT SOME POINTS, BUT I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING WHEN I WROTE THIS STORY AND (spoiler alert) EVERYTHING ENDS UP OKAY IN THE END. STOP GETTING MAD AT ME AND TELLING ME IT'S NOT A SODAPOP LOVE STORY!** {I only own my characters: Emily, Lexi, Nora, Della, exc. Rights for the Greasers and any other characters I haven't created myself go to S.E. Hinton.} The amazing @BrokenPauseButton made the wonderful cover featured in this story. A huge thank you goes out to her. Go check out her stories.

"There's better things than this," he says, "there's gotta be."

Alison was a normal 18 year old girl, she didn't have many friends, focused mainly on school. She graduated early to take care of her mom with cancer. She lives in her own apartment that looks out onto the city. On her free time she plays piano and goes out with her best friend Lacie. Lacie is in college but takes off a lot of time to live a little. Alison and Lacie have known each other since birth, their mothers grew up together. Alison and Lacie were total opposites, Lacie being more of a rebel who's outgoing and funny, and Alison who is shy and quiet. When they are together Alison tries to be more like Lacie, but Lacie just likes her being herself. One day they decide to go out to a club, Alison gets herself into some trouble, and well you'll have to read the story if you want to find out(: (story based in 2014)