The Way That We Are
- Reads 130
- Votes 4
- Parts 2
MatureOngoing14m
Last published Sun, Mar 8, 2020
When people keep telling you you're not good enough, eventually you'll believe it too. Even if you're trying really hard not too.
High school is hard. Especially when you're 143 pounds like Meg Keller and your family and friends never let you forget about that.
Struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts, Meg's only salvation is her online friend whom she never met in person. Knowing somewhere out there there is someone who had it worse than she makes it just a little easier to get through her own miserable life.
But everything will soon change when Meg becomes involved with her school star quarterback in an unexpected accident. She risks her life to save him and he'll never forget about that.
Her once worst bully will turn her life upside down, taking her out from her shell, introducing her to things she never thought she could ever have.
This year, Meg Keller's life will change.
All Rights Reserved
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
![Umbrella [COMPLETED]](https://img.wattpad.com/cover/10301857-256-k873886.jpg)
Umbrella [COMPLETED]
"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision." ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving Can you handle a situation where you fall inlove with a geek and then suddenly, a popular guy falls head over heels for you but you don't feel the same way? Then what if your own bestfriend falls inlove with the man you love? Will you let go of him for your bestfriend? Or fight for what you feel? Will you change your old ways for one person? Or will you let go of that person just for the reason that you don't want to change? Love has its ways of manipulating people. It's your decision wether you get manipulated or not. Meet Catherine McMillan, a bully at her previous school who transferred to Wilson High, a private school that a student can only enter with excellent grades. She enters as a scholar and meets a geek boy named Dylan Wilson who is unexpectedly handsome and innocent. Meet Michael Collins, captain of the football team who starts to feel something "weird"(in his dictionary) for Catherine. This is a story about a girl who has to weigh love between friendship, and boy between family.Complete
Free Falling
Last year, Emma Richardson had it all. The perfect family, friends, popularity, looks, and even the perfect boyfriend...or so she thought. In just one night, her whole world came crashing down. Now, a year later, she's still picking up the pieces scattered around her with one terrifying realization: she will have to face her past in order to fix her present. ****Some of the topics that are talked about in this book, most all of them, can be very triggering for those struggling with mental health, suicide, or rape. Please please please read at your own risk and don't read this if it's going to be too much for you! We love all of our readers, but we want to be cautious to those who struggle with these sensitive topics.**** This book is currently being edited to make it better, so please stick with us.Complete
I'm Not Crazy
We are not the broken clichés you want us to be anymore. We have transcended beyond the "Good Girl ~ Bad Boy" boxes they tried to put us in. We are so far beyond all that now, that we are finally free of all those stereotypes. The story of us is not the usual cliche "good girl" meets "bad boy" that instantly fall in love. Oh, and after a few almost funny mishaps everything works out perfectly story. Or the other one where the brooding bad boy with a tragic past gets a second chance to become a happy, well-adjusted person again. All thanks to the love of an awesomely perfect popularity princess with a pure heart of gold. Who sees "something special" inside him, that no one else can see ...and sets him on a straight path. All that once in a lifetime fairy dust love, that only exists for perfect pretty popularity princesses in the happily ever after. No, this is the other kind of love story ...the messy kind, that messes peoples lives up irrevocably, for all time. The real kind of love story, that comes hand in hand with hopes and fears, and all that real hurt that burns at your heart. So while our Crazy love might not be as bright and shiny as that fairy dust love is ...our love will kick your loves ass any day of the week, and twice on Sunday. Because our love knows the secret truth about itself. That it's not about how perfectly you fall in love, it's how you get the back up after love kicks your ass sideways, and you come back looking for more. Because our love is that Crazy kind of love, that is so forever you have to fight for it 'till the bitter end ...or die trying. The kind of love that comes with beer, pizza, football and a hell of a lot of laughs ...but mostly at everyone else's expense. ~First Place Chicklit - 2017 Blue Rose Award~ ~ Second Place for Teen Fiction - The Star Blazer Awards 2018~ ~ Honorable Mention for Best Plot - 2017 Royalty Awards ~Complete
Altered
Have you ever met someone who alters the course of your life? For good or for bad, they've come in, given and taken, and then- BOOM! Your life was never the same. There's always a change, an altering of reality. When you meet those people, the reality that you've known your whole life is suddenly gone and a new one has taken its place. When those moments happen, there's no going back. You can try to return to the way things were but nothing, and I mean nothing, can take you back to exactly how it was. That's what happened to us. I think that's why we're still trying so desperately to get back to some sort of normalcy. Four years later and we're still on the ground, crawling, in search of the happiness that was lost that June. Summers will never be the same. Midnight walks through my neighborhood will never be the same. Field parties with bonfires and loud music will never be the same. I still don't know why you left and what lead you to the decision you made. What I do know is that we're here. We're alive and we're pushing forward to the future. A future that you're not a part of. But in some ways, I'm glad you're not a part of it. I just wish it wasn't like this. *** TRIGGER WARNING*** SA, abuse, suicide, substance abuse, and mental illness. This is a complete story that is much like life; fast, full of surprises, and not always how we want it to be. This has been a project of mine for over three years. It was self-published on Amazon, but after some issues in publication, I decided to just upload it on here. I hope you fall in love with these characters like I have. The friends in this story are trying to make names for themselves, figure out who they are, who they can trust, how to love, and how to separate themselves from a restrictive community. As in any coming of age story, they will experience growing pains... but will they survive them before its too late? PLEASE READ THE TRIGGER WARNINGS.Complete
Don't Judge a Book by its Cover
[UNDER EDITING] Meggie and her friends are average high school students, hanging out, studying oh-so-hard (note the sarcasm) and enjoying life... but what happens when their lives start to change for the better and the worse, starting with a few new friends and eventually, a secret that will destroy everything for one person...?Complete
It's Molly and not Trolly
Molly. A young teenage girl struggling with her weight. People in school often call her "Trolly" - it's like her nickname. In school she's a popular victim. Chase. A young teenage boy. Lost his mother a year ago. She died because she was overweighted. In school he's the popular quarterback and he fullfills every cliché exsiting. Chase's target is Molly. He's the bully. He destroys her entire life. But when he realises, what he's doing can end another life, because of the same reason.. he starts to overthink his actions... What will happen when his mind and actions change. What made him change. And what will he do with her when he is not bullying her. How will Molly react. What will she think about this sudden change. (Contents Selfharm, Depression and suicidal thoughts please read at your own risk. You are loved❤️)Complete
An Unexpected Moment
... that changes everything Sarah was starting her junior year of high school. Looking at herself in the mirror, she saw a pretty average blonde haired, blue eyed, teenager. She was neither in the popular group, nor one of the many cliched outsiders. Sarah was a nobody. She liked to blend in and lay low. It was her way out of not only this town, but her house. No one knew it, but her father was a high functioning alcoholic that often took his anger out on his family. With her older sister now in college, it had turned to her more often. Laying low in general was a good strategy. Across town, Ryan was prepping for his final year in high school. While he wasn't the stereotypical quarterback of the football team, he did fit into the popular crowd. His sports of choice included basketball and soccer, either of which might line him up for a scholarship next year. Ryan had a group of close friends and a lot of adoring acquaintances. It wasn't easy juggling his athletics and keeping the grades up, but he was just that good. The supporting parents didn't hurt either. It might be a cliché romance, but it will be fun to see what the year and beyond holds. ------------------------------------------ This is a story I wrote years ago, or at least partially wrote. As I transcribe it here, I have tried to update it a bit and give the characters/story more depth than what I had when I was younger. Hopefully it all gets pulled together!Complete
THE WEIGHT GAME EDITED VERSION
This is the edited version of my book The Weight Game that I wrote when I was 13-15. Aubrey has always been the ultimate target for bullies at her school. All she wants is to be good enough for once in her life. What happens when she goes online and finds a website called 'the weight game' where it teaches people quick ways to shed weight? and she takes the tips that tell her to fast, and purge? Never put someone down, because it will never help you reach the top. And never call a person fat, because you never know what they will do in order to prove you wrong.
"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision." ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving Can you handle a situation where you fall inlove with a geek and then suddenly, a popular guy falls head over heels for you but you don't feel the same way? Then what if your own bestfriend falls inlove with the man you love? Will you let go of him for your bestfriend? Or fight for what you feel? Will you change your old ways for one person? Or will you let go of that person just for the reason that you don't want to change? Love has its ways of manipulating people. It's your decision wether you get manipulated or not. Meet Catherine McMillan, a bully at her previous school who transferred to Wilson High, a private school that a student can only enter with excellent grades. She enters as a scholar and meets a geek boy named Dylan Wilson who is unexpectedly handsome and innocent. Meet Michael Collins, captain of the football team who starts to feel something "weird"(in his dictionary) for Catherine. This is a story about a girl who has to weigh love between friendship, and boy between family.
More detailsContent Guidelines