When you live in small, typical town like Portland, Oregon, you don't expect much. Arielle Martinez had her best friends, an annoying sister, and a single mother. Life was just a sweet time. She got through middle school and was now living her third year of high school. Junior. The only thing for her agenda this year is smiles, laughs, more laughs, and more memories. Of course, the dark-haired troubled, bad boy, Shadowfax Skywood didn't pop in her delicate, easygoing mind. Why would it? Freshman through Sophomore they never acknowledged each other's presence. Not even fight for the last apple pie in the cafeteria. But things have changed when both are thrown more and more into each other's path, but this doesn't bother Arielle much because she has nothing to hide, but what about Shadow? He's not popular, but he isn't close to a loner or at all of being ignored. So what is it? What's his secret? No turning back now, they're both in deep, but will this destroy them or get them closer?

"Highschool? Bullshit." ~The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Nobody likes highschool. It's four years of being judged, getting your heartbroken, feeling stressed, suffering from anxiety issues, and just a general pain in the neck. Most teenagers despise waking up and spending eight hours in their least favourite place. So why should it be any different for her? When Valerie Valentine is first accepted to Carlsonton Academy, the boarding school for the kids of the rich and famous, she does not look forward to it. Little does she know that that's where her life will completely change forever. It's the place where she'll meet the most amazing people in her life, and also some of the worst. It's the place where she'll fall in love and suffer heartbreak. It's the place she knows that when she leaves, she'll miss it more than anything. It's the place she calls home. //Contains swearing. You have been warned.//

Yellowjackets Mari x OC 1996. Dani finds a home on the soccer field. The Yellowjackets make it to nationals and on the final night home, she decides to run away. Nationals is supposed to be the last day of her old life and the first of her new one. If only she knew how true that would be. 2021. The plights of the past have come back to haunt Danika and Mari. As the couple watch their friends die one by one, they must grapple with the ghosts of their pasts and the ones of the present.

Carmen Davies- Recently transferring from UCLA, Carmen arrives with a smile that never fades and an energy that draws people in. Bright, bubbly, and effortlessly charming. Within days, she becomes a familiar face on campus-warm, talkative, always laughing. But behind her sunny confidence is a sharp, curious mind, and it doesn't take long for someone to catch her attention-not for how present they are, but for how removed and absent. Ivan Anderson- He has mastered the art of invisibility, he has drifted through his years at Columbia near silence. His world is quiet and controlled-by choice. With a past he'd rather keep buried deep down and emotions he struggles to contain, Ivan solitude and medication to keep himself in check. He's built walls high enough to keep everyone out, believing it's safer that way. No one's ever really tried to break them down-until now. When Carmen is assigned to Ivan for academic mentoring, their worlds quietly collide. She's drawn to his mystery; he's unnerved by her light. As Carmen begins to pull at the threads of Ivan's carefully guarded life, what starts as a simple partnership begins to unravel something deeper. But how do you reach someone who doesn't want to be found? And what if the one thing Carmen needs to save him... is the very thing he's spent years hiding from? Find out in "Almost Broken..."

Sometimes the best lessons aren't learned in class, they're felt in the heart. Riley Hale's life runs on caffeine, chaos, and cupcake batter. At twenty-eight, she's mastered the art of single motherhood, sarcasm, and pretending she's totally fine that her love life has been replaced by late-night cleaning montages and her eight-year-old's existential questions. Then one morning, a frosty stranger in a perfect beige coat walks into The Sweet Spot bakery and straight into Riley's list of "people I will never impress." After one spilled coffee and a mortifying apology later, Riley is convinced she'll never see the woman again. Until the next day, when she meets her daughter's new fifth-grade teacher... Miss Emerson Miller. What follows is a year of accidental flirtations, school-event disasters, and late-night bake-offs that blur the line between enemies, friends, and something sweeter. Because sometimes love doesn't show up when you plan it - it spills all over your shoes and dares you to start over. A slow-burn, small-town romantic comedy about second chances, messy mornings, and discovering that the best lessons aren't always taught in classrooms.

A 17 year old girl, named Camille Edwards and her mom and dad lives in a dangerous-ghetto neighborhood. Her mother is a crack fiend, and her father is ever barely around, roaming the streets. She lives in a broken-poor neighborhood in the housing projects, figuring out ways to turn her life around. Camille hasn't been the brightest of many 17 year old's. But It wasn't her fault for growing up with bad parents. She has a two year old daughter from an abusive boyfriend named Tyrese Jackson (19) who is a street pharmacist and a gang member. Since her parents aren't there for her and since she's an only child, Camille has grown to take care of herself and go to school all on her own. In order to help pay half for rent, for her daughter, and for her boyfriend she is a local tutor in the neighborhood. When that doesn't work out... She goes into illegal situations in the streets in order to make the money every month. She ultimately has a breakdown and figures that nobody would ever truly love her until she met a guy, a guy who would love her, cherish her, and help take care of her. If only she would let him. It ain't easy growing up without good influences, but only Camille can figure out the pursuit of happiness in her teenage love affair.

Formerly titled: The Mistake She was the only girl at an elite all-boys boarding school. He was the one boy she should've stayed away from. Denver Rosewood didn't mean to end up at Cobain Academy- it was a paperwork disaster. But what started as the mistake of a lifetime is turning into something much more dangerous. Nate Anderson is cold, sharp-tongued, and infuriatingly beautiful. With a perfect smirk and a shattered heart, he's the school's most known with too many secrets. And Denver's about to become one of them. Their worlds were never supposed to collide. But when tutoring sessions turn into late-night confessions, and rivalry turns into obsession, Denver realizes this isn't just about getting through the year anymore. It's about surviving him. A slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance filled with emotional tension, dark secrets, and the quiet unraveling of two people who were never supposed to find each other. Welcome to Cobain Academy. This isn't just love. This is obsession.

After a messy year, all Sarah wants is to stay focused. She's 18, in her final year of high school, and determined to stay out of trouble. But things get complicated when she meets her new English teacher, Ms. Miller. Addison Miller is the last person Sarah should be drawn to. She's twice her age, her teacher, recently divorced, and completely off-limits. Strict, unreadable... and somehow, strangely familiar. Sarah knows she shouldn't get involved. But knowing is one thing, wanting is another entirely. Slow burn | Teacher x Student | Age gap

She's a Rose by any other name... A young agent is assigned to a mission unlike any that she had ever been on before. Under the name Callie Rosenfield, she enrolls in a prestigious academy where she is to live a normal life. Her real objective is as unknown to her as the daily troubles of being a teenage girl- battling emotions she never realized she had, petty drama, keeping good grades, and boy problems. Haunted by her job-given title, the "Chestnut Rose", Callie fights to balance her real life and her prioritized mission. Can she adapt to her new environment that is much different than the only one she's ever known? But the more important question is, can she learn to deal with becoming more human in the process? Author's Note: I wrote this novel 7 years ago and it is currently in the process of being rewritten. This is just the first draft!

Clementine Marsh, a struggling, 17 year old is shipped off to a boarding school by her parents, where her parents hope she can find ways to cope with everything she's lost and everything she is going through. In her first week, she's already had trouble with another stuggling girl, but also made friends with a boy who is keen to introduce Clementine to his friendgroup. What Clementine doesn't know though, the girl she made trouble with, is in that friendgroup. Will they work out their differences? Will they fight in secret? Or will they help eachother? - "Im not fighting you." I spat, wanting with everything in me to hit her but i couldn't. Her eyes narrowed as she took a step closer. "Why." "Because im not dividing your group up just because you're just angry and looking for someone to take it out on." I said, pushing her back slightly and she stumbled. "If we fight, you're gonna divide your group up and that is not going to be on me. Louis is going to take my side, shit sounds like Sophie will too. You're angry, you're looking for someone to take it out and fine. Take it out on someone, but not on me because it will tear your group apart."