Fourteen-year-old Rain lives in a small town in North Dakota. It's the end of August, the days are getting shorter, and summer is winding down. Rain isn't happy that school is starting, but she is getting excited about the upcoming volleyball season. It means spending more time with her teammates and friends, and playing the sport that she loves. This story follows Rain through her first three weeks of eighth grade. During this time, Rain learns that she has an admirer. As the days go on, she finds out that one of her teammates has a crush on him. To make matters worse, the boy has ties to a man that hurt her mother. Will Rain choose friendship and family, or will she choose love? 🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐 Please comment and vote. It will motivate me to keep writing. Thanks!

A baby's cry pierces the air as the midwife passes the baby to the awaiting hands of the father. Damon happily takes the baby from her hands holding her close to his chest not worried about the blood most likely staining his clothes. As quickly as the moment began it was lost, Damon was pushed out of the small room the baby still in his hands. "Stop! Wait! What's going on?" Damon yells trying to get back into the room. That's when he gets a look into the room noticing the many midwives rushing around attaching things to his wife lying on the bed, covered in blood and sweat from just giving birth. "Ruby! Ruby!" Damon yells over the loud cries of the baby in his arms. Damon stops yelling the shock to great. He hears the midwife's declare her dead, the blood loss to severe. In that one lonely moment Damon realizes that he will do everything he can to keep the little girl in his arms safe, no matter the cost. --------- Angels Mother died when she was only a few minutes old leaving her in the hands of her father, the great Damon Salvatore. Who knew that that one special little girl would later have three of the most powerful men in the world wrapped around her finger? ------ This is kind of an AU but I will follow the plot the best I can. (Kol Mikaelson X OC X Niklaus Mikaelson X Elijah Mikaelson) (The beautiful covers are by @heartsails)

Rosie Grey was only seven years old when she arrived at Mr Thompson's cotton factory. Now fourteen, she has become accustomed to the treatment of the workers and the harsh conditions under which they are forced to work. After an accident in the storeroom leads to her dismissal, Rosie must try to make her own way in the real world, away from the life she had grown used to. But despite being seemingly free from her life at the factory, Rosie struggles with the dark past that holds her captive, and she doesn't know if she will ever be able to escape the life she tries so hard to forget. (C)Spruce_Goose Cover - Made by @Azanthiel