Stopmentalillness Stories

under reconstruction "She had this feeling of confusion and madness inside. Maybe if she could go into somebody else's body and see how they lived their everyday life then maybe she'll finally realize that she wasn't the only one. Other than that, nothing else could convince her that she wasn't." ---------------------------- Fate. Something that Ruth had long lost belief in. She used to believe that there was a purpose behind everything that happened. That everything led to one single goal. But now at 17, after her mother's death, Ruth's life has been nothing but a downhill ride. And fate seems to be the last thing on her mind. But when Ruth decides to take her own life at a school party one night, Fate seems to have a different plan...

"she's impossible, she has her mind determined, she wants to get out of this place, she wants to escape for good and i'm afraid the only way of doing that is by death"

Bryn Arrington has always despised American Football, being a self determined photographer - it's practically in her nature. One of Bryn's many talents is running, when things become to much to handle in Florida with her always drunken mother, Bryn boards the first flight to New York to move in with her father and older brother. Only things get worse for her in Orion, New York - when Bryn collides with the quarterback at Orion Prep, Holden Stone. Their two different personalities make them detest each other. With almost the entire football team out to get her, the school's counselor decides it's best if Holden and Bryn get to know each other better. That's how The Football Cleanse is born.