Lauren Covich is a fourteen year old girl in her freshman year in high school. She has been bullied, taunted, and teased by "The Populars", consisting of Adrianna Wilmington, Diana Christiansen, and Olivia McCoy, for the past three years of middle school. This year, she has finally beat the popular kids and has gotten over their ways. ~ But tragedy strikes. Lauren loses her life in a shark attack. She desperately fights for her life, but nothing works. Lauren wakes up, and is looking over Adrianna at her home. She was being treated horribly by her older brother, Michael. Diana was being bullied in her church group. Olivia was being abused mentally and physically. Lauren soon realizes that things happen to change who people are, and may not be for the better.

Massey May Kessing is a fourteen year old girl living in Mooresville, North Carolina, who has been dating Hayes Grier for four months. When Hayes and Nash's older brother, Will, mysteriously vanishes after an injury at a football game, Massey wants to uncover where he went. But when Massey disappears, she has to find her way back to her family and the questionable love of her life.

Margaux Marie Woodson fell in love with Oliver Joseph Robert Franco on January 7, 2014. Margaux called him her O.J. He was her fourth crush. Orange juice was worth $2.57 at the time. She subtracted four, and she was left with the price of love. But is love worth it?

Maisie Joanna Ryder. The acquantaince yet admirer of Ken Weatherwax--Pugsley on "The Addams Family". Also a petite blonde who is contemplating suicide, dying from cancer, and a slight alcoholic. Maisie. What an odd name.

COMPLETED • They were both whisked away far too soon. {This is for a short story contest created by @beautifultragedies ! Check out her page, her books are amazing.} • Mallory Abbott lives in Sycamore, Georgia, a small town known for its homegrown peaches and beautiful lakes. During the last week of April, her pastor father passes away, and leaves Mallory with a hole in her heart. She is devastated, and no one seems to be able to help her. Once Johnny boy comes along, however, Mallory has a change of heart. John becomes her life, her sunshine. But, like everything you love, you must let it go. And you must also keep a pocketful of sunshine through the darkness. • STARTED: June 23, 2016 ENDED: June 23, 2016 {©2016, Charlotte Gaston}

alana husni is living on norfolk island, just off the coast of australia, with her best friend torie hoit. a mysterious couple arrives from america, with a deep past that doesn't make any sense. alana is against speaking to them, but eventually likes the two and moves past her conflict. on a morning hike, the four realize that someone has been watching them. they don't know who. but they are about to find out. - started : september 21, 2016 on hiatus : november 28, 2016 republished : march 21, 2018 - {©2016, charlotte gaston}

eloise keaton is the new girl in town, and she is nervous to start her junior year at a brand new school in the big city of charlotte, north carolina. When she meets a boy named jack marshall, she is convinced that nothing could be better. But when jack turns out to have a mysterious past and an even more mysterious identity, eloise questions her own past and what she was a witness to as well. - started : july 10, 2016 ended : july 19, 2016 republished : march 21, 2018 - {©2016, charlotte gaston}

she never met a boy quite like him: he wore designer clothes but his personality was one-of-a-kind. she saw him from afar and fell for him immediately. when they meet, sparks fly...and plans for the future show through. - authors note : i am keeping up this re-published version (as of may 26 2017) and i will begin editing as soon as possible. once i have finished editing, i will update chapters a few times a week. thank you for all the support! i'm also going to re-format the second and third books so that they will be their own separate stories (but possibly with a little bit from each book in them). - praise : "best book ever...so creative and original" - @micaxox "oh my god...this is so perfect" - @makenziegarbert - started : may 3 2016 ended : june 16 2016 re-published : may 26 2017 - (©2016, charlotte gaston)

my entry for the #WondertheMovie contest. - written : may 28 2017 - (©2017, charlotte gaston)