"Best friends don't date their best friends!" Tasha Olivier has always been left by all the guys she has dated. Why? She expects them to be like her best friend Cole Matthews. Despite her wanting someone like him, she firmly refuses to date him. Will she ever find the guy she desires? Or will Cole who has been in love with her for years ever have a chance with her, especially now that a new guy in Xavier Harris is in town and he seems to just catch Tasha's attention.

Bailey Pierce has always been the nerd. She has always been the outcast, never asked out to anything or even had a boyfriend. Well, Bailey doesn't mind that since she has a secret, well multiple secrets that she doesn't want to share with anyone. Her secret, she lives on her own and she helps out a friend, who was suffering from addiction to crack. She has no time for boys or parties, as she was trying to get into a good school and get a good job. Bailey, or Bay as some people like to call her, is beautiful in that nerd way, well, only with the fake glasses that she wears and her hair in a ponytail. Blake Peterson is and will always be a jock and a player, known to be able to woo any unsuspecting female out of their pants.. He's the star of the basketball and football team, known to get even the best of teachers to like him. He's a C student who needs to get his grades up or else he can fail out of football as well as the college of his dreams. The only person that he cares about is himself and that's always how it'll be for the rest of the his whole entire life, or so he thought. However, they are about to get a wake up call when they are paired up for a project and Bailey has to tutor him. Secrets get told and a whole lot of drama comes while these two people learn then truth about what a true friend means in the time of need. _______________________________________ NOTE: IF YOU READ THIS BOOK ON ANY OTHER APP BESIDES WATTPAD THEN IT IS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. I GAVE NO ONE PERMISSION TO USE MY BOOK AND HAVE NOT POSTED IT ANYWHERE ELSE, SO... YA. REPORT THAT BOOK. Thanks. ~Rissa

Hate; feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone or something) Carter Shay is a seventeen year old girl who's grown up with everything handed to her in life, her family has money, she has a nice car. She has designer clothes. Great parents, goes to a great school. Great friends, popularity. But she has a secret as to why she gets everything she wants. Yet she doesn't let that stop her from acting like a teenager, from mood swings, to making enemies. Especially enemies, specifically Noah Miller. Noah Miller is a teenage boy who's worked for everything he has, yeah his family has money, they appear as a perfect family to the public eye. But what happens behind closed doors stays behind those doors. As one of the most popular guys in school, guys worship him, girls drool over him, and he lets it happen. Except her, he hates her. Whether it's the feud their families have, or just that fact that Carter Shay is everything that he hate's. They compete when it comes to anything, assignments, sports, pranks. It's not the 'I'm messing with you because I'm actually in love with you' It's the 'I absolutely despise you'. When they're forced to work on an assignment together instead of competing with each other, secrets come out, relationships start forming, and heart's get broken. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚍 || 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝟶th 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟷. 𝙵𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 || 𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟾𝚝𝚑 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟸.

Elena Adams has had a rough life. Her mother left her after the death of her sister and her brother never comes around. She's left alone with her drunk father. She's got a mouth on her though and will stand up to anyone who fucks with her or her friends. Reece Parkers life is golden, well except for the being dragged in a gang thing. He's the schools player/ bad boy. He's cocky, carefree and hot. He's tough and fearless... until Elena came along. She became his weakness in a matter of days. "I wanna punch you in the face" I squinted my eyes. Just then an apple snacked him right in the head. Lauren and I curled our lips in so we wouldn't laugh "my point p-proven" I bursted out into laughter He squinted his eyes and stood up "Who threw it!" All eyes were on him. I exchanged looks with Lauren before we gave him our attention again "Caleb please get down" I laughed He shook his head "No Lena" he looked at the jock table and jumped off the table stomping their way "who did it?" Lauren and I jumped out of out seats and ran to him "Caleb stop. They're gonna beat your ass" I made slight eye contact with Reece, his grey eyes stared into my soul and he gave me a blank expression. I looked at Caleb "Go now!" I pointed back to our table "Lena I got a fucking apple to the head" he frowned "I ain't leaving until I find out who it was" "I did it" Dylan smirked "but it was aimed for Kayne"

When Emma Harte, a pretty, late blooming, slightly nerdy teen girl who has never shared her first kiss, decides to help her not-brother James, the ultimate womanizer, and the most popular boy in school, with his huge 'party of the year' scheme, she finds herself trying to keep their relationship in tact. James' dad got married to Emma's mon when they were really young, and they all have lived under the same roof since. But, a couple years after James' dad passed away, James was sent off to another school, St. Bernard High for throwing his principles chair into the school pool. Now he's being forced to go back to Emma's school, Santiago High. He asks her and her friends to sell their merchandise from their school business, which is off the charts cool. James promises her more business in exchange for selling a bunch at his party to all of his friends, including people from his old school. The Dream Team, which is made up of Caleb, Emma's best friend and James' younger brother, and Sophia, both Caleb's and Emma's best friend from the 3rd grade. They all initially agree to help James, and also want to make some good money from the party. But, there's one girl who wants to see it all burn up in flames. Sammi, a mean, catty, popular girl who has the hots for James, tries everything in her power to ruin Emma. After a bunch of run ins with the both of them, Sammi makes up a rumor about James, insinuating it was Emma who started it. James watches Emma embarrass herself on multiple different occasions, And still wont explain why he is upset with her. But, after Sammi gets a football player to put a cockroach in Emma's hair in class, Emma runs out to leave. She then runs into James, who Offers to give her a ride home. He then tells her he fiund out it was Sammi who started the rumor. And to make it up to her, he brings her to see her favorite series, 'Raven-Man' at the Drive-in theatre.

Lela, a fifteen year old girl decides to go camping with her best friend. But things don't go as planned. She seems to be battling with her self between good and evil. While all this is going on she happens to be falling for her best friend's older brother. And then she has to deal with all the drama going on around the camp fire.

Short Story. Complete. "No. I love you Giselle, but I won't do it. I won't choose. I can't choose between my best friend and my girlfriend. It's like she's the sun and you're the air and you're asking me to give one up. I can't choose. Not between you two," Brett growls. ___________________________________________________________________ When Giselle started dating Brett, she knew she could never make him choose between her and his best-friend. Why? Because she would lose. Whenever she read a cliche dealing with bestfriends, she always cheered for the bestfriend, because who wouldn't? They're obviously meant to be together and no one ever pays attention to the poor girlfriend who was lead to believe she had a chance. Well, it's finally time to hear the other side of the story.

Marissa Allen dreaded the idea of spending a few days camping with her family and their neighbor. She was a city girl, and the thought of being out in the wilderness, with no Wi-Fi or cell phone reception, terrified her. But her parents had insisted, and she had reluctantly agreed to come along. As soon as they arrived at the campsite, Marissa realized her mistake. They were cramped in a tiny RV, sharing it with the entire family and their neighbor. Marissa's parents were enthusiastic about the trip, but Marissa just couldn't shake the feeling of being stuck in the middle of nowhere. As the days went by, Marissa started to notice her neighbor's son, Jake. He was tall, handsome, and had a rugged look that Marissa found appealing. They started talking, and before she knew it, she found herself drawn to him. But she reminded herself that she wasn't the kind of girl who believed in love or romance.

Elena Marie Owens, a cool, Independent 15 year old. A very well known person around New York due to her talents in the Arts and Crafts, and one of her hidden talents in skating, not just that kind of skating but Ice skating and Roller skating too. People are envious of Elena at school, but with Elena, she doesn't care what people say or think about her. The only people she's ever cared about is her rather large family, all in one house. As for her love life? Like she needs that right now. All the guys she's ever dated left her for someone else or cheated on her, so the last thing she needs is another guy saying "I love you." But, this coming 2019 she meets someone the exact opposite of what she expects in a guy, now Elena doesn't believe in SoulMates but this special guy might change her mind. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Xavier Jackson Robinson, probably the most sensitive 17 year old you'll ever meet. At his home in California he is well known for his love of sports, and almost everyone in Cali knows who Xavier is, and half the reason is because of his sister who is a world renowned famous singer. Xavier has taken a love in basketball and hoping to be in the NBL one day. Xavier has basically put a flag down in California, hoping he would stay there forever. But suddenly one day in the Robinson household, the family is forced to move to New York. Xavier is obviously not happy, more angry than anything, but Xavier should be use to change since he changed basketball teams every so often at school, but for some reason this is different. Xavier is now enrolled in this new school, away from his friends, and "off to make new ones" his dad would say. But one day he sets his eyes on this girl, and he swears they are SoulMates. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Army brat Emily Barfield just wants to experience a normal year of high school before she and her family move back to the States right before her senior year of high school. She'd love to be Homecoming Queen (impossible, according to her best friend) and go out with quarterback Riley Jones, Edelweiss High's Mr. Everything (even more impossible). But maybe, just maybe, all of it is within her grasp--if she can learn to believe in herself. Based on ONC 2022 Prompt 97: For a school magazine, you're supposed to take individual interviews of the soccer/football team players. You are now hesitant to interview someone whom you've been admiring for years now.