"I can't believe you're going with her!" Arabella shrieked, standing in the kitchen in her cotton nightgown with her fists tightly clenched.

She shook so violently, that the idea of her socking me in the face played out in my head.

The thrill of it tickled me to smile, but I composed myself, schooling my face into outright shock and smoothed into understanding with a furrow of my brow. Arousal ...

Brianna paced herself cautiously down the abandoned side street, now looking more like a concrete jungle than a suburban neighborhood. Bri was always intrigued by this side of town, but her mother would probably have a heart attack if she knew she was walking down this particular part of Detroit.

“I can’t believe you’re going with her!” Sophia exclaimed in a loud whisper from the sidewalk, prompt...

“I can’t believe you are going with her.” It wasn’t a shout. It wasn’t a cry. I was better than to cry over a boy. Especially one as stupid as him.

But when you’ve known someone for years, it hit harder because just when you thought you knew them, they turn on you.

“Rhea, come on, what did you expect?” He seemed angry about my ease.

“What I expected was the boy I grew up with. But I guess that shi...

“Okay, I’ll be ready by five.” He tells Luda, and then walks away.

He’s only taken about twenty steps when Anya catches up with him.

“Vasil, I can’t believe you’re going with her!”

“Anya, we’ve talked about this, you can’t judge her based on a ‘_gut feeling’_. She’s nice and I want to go with her, plus, she needs help getting there.” Vasil says.

Anya shakes her head sadly, and then loo...

Mia woke up on the morning of the much-anticipated prom proposal with a flutter of excitement in her chest. She couldn't help but imagine the perfect moment when Josh would ask her to be his date. As she got ready, she meticulously chose her outfit, hoping to impress him. She settled on a stunning emerald green dress that accentuated her eyes and made her feel like a princess.

Arriving at school,...

The first bell rang, sending students, me included, clamoring to various rooms along the hallway. All except for Queen Bee Sarah Watson.

She was still inspecting her already perfect manicure, the tips of her nails as flawlessly white as her shorter than the dress code allowed skirt and chunky-heeled sneakers.

The second and final bell rang out. A few stragglers raced to claim their seats, pant...

Carter was a little too drunk to have heard the knock on his bedroom door, and way too high to have cared. So there he lay; face down on the engine-block-sized beanbag chair. He’d had the wherewithal to roll himself over in the middle of the night to avoid the whole Hendrix thing.

Anthony knocked once more before just barging in, hoping his brother had also remembered pants. Boxers was enough, h...

“No no no no no, you’re gonna listen to me!” Sharon followed Dave through the archway of his room, making it impossible to close her out.

“Can I help you?” He asked, irked.

“Did you hear what I said?”

“The judgy message you are all but blaring at me with a bullhorn? Nope. Missed it.” He plopped onto his bed, trying to disengage.

“Be serious for two seconds. I just— I can’t believe you’re g...

I sat on my bed in the apartment that I was currently calling my own. The room with it’s plain dull white walls and a pale white light made it feel colder than usual, at least colder than Sal’s cafe or my safe house with a roaring fire in the wood burning stove. I look around the room it was very small and very simple; Serena’s bed sat across from mine and a bed side table that we shared in betwee...

Cami smiles mockingly as she climbs into the car in front of me.

Tyler looks at me, his eyes flashing with pain.

“I can’t believe your going with her,” I whisper, the cool breeze blowing my dress.

“You’ve been gone,” Tyler response, his voice cracking.

I nod, looking away from his eyes, “And you’ve changed.”

“People change-Things change.”

Yeah, that explains everything. I guess what Tyler felt ...