WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Adrift after a failed suicide attempt, golden boy Everest can't find anything worth living for - until he meets Beverly, a loner determined to prove him wrong. ***** For a boy who seemed to have it all - wealth, good looks, popularity, a wide circle of friends - Everest Finley becomes the ultimate social outcast after failing to take his own life. Dejected and alone, he starts his last year of high school by acting out, determined to ruin his golden boy reputation after his best friend and girlfriend both turn on him. But to his surprise, resident loner Beverly Davis reaches out and tries to befriend him. Ever the optimistic, her empathy and persistence eventually convinces him to spend time with her, and the two slowly bond over their complicated family lives and a love of singing. But even as their budding friendship begins to hint at something more, Everest continues to struggle with depression and unhappiness. Can a simple pact between the two truly encourage him to find something worth living for? Content and/or Trigger Warning: this story contains mentions and descriptions of depression and self harm. -SKY

Dominique VisinGardy isn't your ordinary rich girl. Not everything is handed to her on a silver platter. What most people in the small town of Manchester don't know is about her agonizing childhood. But to others living in the slums of Manchester, like Antonio Hernandez; a spanish gang member from the infamous Hijos de los Guerreros, view the wealthy as greedy, selfish people. Though, when Dominique and Antonio's paths cross when they are partnered up for a student tutor program, the stereotypical views they had for each other slowly change. Could it really be possible that a tough, rough, promiscuous gang banger could change everything and risk his life for one girl? Would a smart, beautiful, popular, rich girl open up everything from her past to the one and only guy she dreaded and despised? Separated by a stop light that divides Manchester from the upper-class and the lower-class, two fated teens are unfavorable partnered together and come to understand what it's really like for each other on The Other Side.