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Ongoing, First published Dec 28, 2013
❝This is a story about a bunch of teenagers who attempt to take on the world - which is kinda hard to do when you live in a small town.❞

Meet Benjamin Carter: a cheeky-grinning, surfboard-riding fuckboy if you've ever seen one.

Charlie Carter: newly seventeen and already hitting a quarter-life crisis. 

Mackenzie Lawrence: bold, brash, bisexual, and - as she likes to refer to herself - a 'budget version of Beyonce.'

Jesse Tuitama: an aspiring professional skater who's wiser than his years. 

A mission to discover the identities of an adopted daughter's birth parents. A romance that begins on a soccer field. A party girl caught up in an abusive relationship. A broken family and a boy trying to hold it all together.

Four friends attempting to navigate their last year of high school and make it out alive.

Every character is flawed. Every character is worthy of love. This is a universal reflection of you, and of me. This is BEAMERS.

[Written in a format that's a cross between a pseudo screenplay and a novel, each chapter is a different episode focusing on one character's perspective at a time. Reads like you're watching a television show play out before your eyes. Set in a sleepy fictional New Zealand town and written by an author with a background in youth work, this story aims to shine a light on the lives of Kiwi teens and the issues they face everyday, including sexual abuse, mental illnesses, internet bullying, and drug use.]
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|CROSSROADS x LEAP YEAR | Eighteen-year-old April Lewis flees her troubled home, desperate to escape her emotionally distant, controlling mom, and seek out her dad. Little does she know a chance encounter with her classmate will take her on a cross-country ride: a journey that will change April's life forever. A venture that will lead her down a path of self-discovery and unexpected love. *** When eighteen-year-old April Lewis' mom walks around like a zombie, evades all attempts to talk and controls her every move, April decides she's had enough. She leaves home one warm summer evening with nothing but a yellow backpack filled with her coveted dad's letters he's been sending her for the past months, and some bare necessities. She's determined to seek him out and go live with him down on the West Coast, where he has a temporary job. The last thing April expects is almost being hit by a car. The owner of the vehicle? Her classmate, Dave Rivera, a troubled boy whom she almost never talked to before, and who can't be more different than her. After making sure April is just a little banged-up, Dave strikes a deal with her: he'll help her get to the West Coast free of charge, as long as she doesn't report him to the cops. The two embark upon a road trip from NY to LA, navigating through stunning landscapes and meeting a colorful cast of characters. While sharing life stories and exchanging experiences, armed with the wisdom from her Dad's letters, April and Dave discover that they are a lot more alike than they originally thought. The journey slowly becomes more important than the destination, and their path takes an unexpected turn when a shocking secret comes to light. © 2024 EvelynHail Exclusively on Wattpad Based on prompt 4! Which is (I shan't leave ye hanging :P): "When life gives you balloons, you fly up into the sky."