Life doesn't abide by the rules of a child. Sixteen-year-old Ramona knows this. She's seen it throughout her entire life, from the way she was treated by her birth parents to the way she was thrown around the foster system with nothing but her little brother, Mason, to hold onto. Every bruised cheek and broken bone has slowly shattered Ramona's trust in the system and any foster parent she's ever met. In the end, it's only Mason she can trust. Her life is dedicated to making his better, and focused solely on sheltering him from the pain of feeling as lonely as she is. That is, until Ramona gets news one day that may just uproot everything she's ever believed about her and Mason's situation. Everything is about change for Mason, all because of a man named Owen Parker. He wants to take the only thing that Ramona has ever truly loved. He wants to adopt her brother, and there is nothing she can do to stop him. Though after years of running and years of pain, Ramona knows just how badly Mason needs a home. It's a breath of fresh air for him, a family filled with love, and everything that Mason has never had. But then, what about Ramona? She's brotherless, parentless, and alone in a city that has never cared about her. She has to find a way to cope, and she has to find a way to forgive the man who took her little boy from her. But she can't cope, she can't forgive, and she can only bend so many times before she breaks. - - Warning: This story deals with mature content that may be difficult for some to read, such as self-harm, suicide, drug use, abuse, depression, anxiety, and sexual harassment. - - Highest Ranks: |#1| - adopted |#1| - fosterkid |#1| - fostercare |#1| - foster |#1| - suicideawareness |#1| - recovery |#1| - comingofage |#1| - mentalillness |#1| - strength |#2| - adoption

Jayleen Lévon, is a hard working nurse working at Hopkins Hospital. One day, a handsome man named Ayden, is rolled into the ER, Jayleen doesn't know why she has such a strong pull towards him. He ends up in a coma and she doesn't know why she wants him to wake up so badly. She has a strong pain in her chest when she finds out he's engaged. She finds herself falling in love with him while he was in the coma. She feels idiotic because she knows it won't be possible that she has a slight chance to be with Ayden if he ever wake up, is she right? Or is she alone forever?

This is not a ‘boy saves the girl’ type of story. This is anything but that. No boy can save a girl like Ana Shaw. She is saveless. Ana Shaw has had a rough three years. After a traumatic experience when she was fifteen, she has been in and out of mental hospitals in hopes of trying to make her whole again. Now, after multiple suicide attempts and then a full year of recovery, Ana finds herself back in a patient facility, surrounded by other mentally unstable people. But really, what's wrong with wanting to die? After everything that she's been through, it's totally understandable that she wants to end her life. However, everybody around her is determined to keep her alive no matter what she wants. Will they succeed or will Ana slip through their fingers once and for all? With the help of a few people at the mental rehabilitation center that she is staying in, Ana fights to find reasons to live before it's too late.

When June, a flesh-and-blood illustration of depression, ultimately decides to quit breathing, she settles on drowning herself in a lake. However, with an extraordinary twist of fate, she is resurrected by a boy named Forrest. Captivating, kind, and honest, he offers her the things she's been deprived of the most. As time comes and goes, June begins to understand that she - after long years of doubt - is worthy of life. She begins to see that sometimes, what seems to be the end may be just the beginning.

"Jump. That's all I have to do. And it only takes one step. To leave this godforsaken world... to be free". Emily had never been the popular one. Nor the nerd. No, she was the invisible one. She used to be full of confidence until that night. Abused and depressed, she ends up resorting to the quickest and easiest escape from the pain. Suicide.

After one night when her stepfather gets into trouble with the law, 13 year old Charlotte Burkins gets sent to live in a foster home for two months. But all of that changes when she finds out that she has a real family willing to take her. A family that consists of her real dad, a new stepmom and four older brothers. When she moves into her new home she can't help but close everyone off. Her family and friends see through her act and they want to help her. But the question is, does Charlotte want help? -Currently in the process of re-editing

Leah Archer was just 12 years old when she hit her head on a rock and fell into a coma, one that doctors weren't sure she'd ever come back from. But when she wakes up four years later, she faces the struggle of recovery and fights to regain any hint of a normal life. Noah Davis is the star running back of his high school football team before a nasty tackle takes him out for months. After surgery and a rough few months of recovery, he hopes his physical therapy has been enough to get him back on the field. But as senior year approaches, he realizes that balancing football with the rest of his life may be harder than before. As both Leah and Noah fight their own battles, they discover that recovery is a long road that may just be better traveled together.