(This is breaking post order like whoa, but I'm also about to go inactive and need to get out of the way before i go Away) She hadn't even realized there could be a wrong answer. But of course there was, and of course Oscar had found it, of course Oscar could and would expound for hours on why he wa...

How many more times was this going to happen? There wasn't even any If I stay to it. If Zoe stayed, if she stood stalwart on this newly hallowed ground, it'd happen here and it'd happen soon and it'd happen with these people. But to say her goodbyes and try her luck somewhere else, what would that s...

Never was about where the car would take them. Only math in Zoe's head, only three and two makes five, only the hope that three and two would now make five. Math is how we stay alive, we add and add and add, more of us together, more of us friends, more of us not killing. And when whoever comes on t...

On some faraway corner of the island, Andi driving and Gray shotgun and they're fast, strong, invincible, here in their fortress called Jalopy . But on this corner of the island, it won't start and it won't start and it won't start till she blames him, yells at him, and then they give up on more tha...

Zoe Leverett continued from Waking Up at the Beginning of Time Something of a pleasant metronome as the driftwood intoned its command, just a forward forward forward forward forward droning from now till the still-distant sunset, rang out in a rhythm that Zoe had honestly considered timing her strid...

"I don't ever want to go back to square one, Julian. If I go back to square one, there's no fucking way I'm getting out of there again." To the untrained eye, it may have appeared that Julian had just fucked up. A bit unfortunate, considering how many untrained eyes were in the next vicin...

"It's not like there's anyone who wants me to die, of course," said JJ. "Haven't ever pissed off any Bayview students... a guy like me doing something like that? I'd never do that, especially not to any girls." And there he goes again, all angsting about his past sins and shit.....

((Julian Avery continued from Vaulting)) The weight room is generally a fun place to be in if you're in the company of a team, because a place with company has to try very hard to not be fun. And since a sports team generally sees a weight room as a collection of magical devices shouting "Would...

First JJ, then Tenser, then Justin. Everyone seemed to want to get away from the conversation, and given the inherent silliness of a flipping-and-gymnastics one-upping festival, Julian couldn't blame them. So now he was left with the choice of staying with the girl whose name he had just learned was...

"It's not exactly life threatening." Julian nodded at JJ's statement, but chose not to make an immediate reply. It seemed like the storm of "hey did you kill yourself, I think you just killed yourself" statements was wearing on him, so a change in subject was probably order. Alr...

What Julian Avery needed right now was a distraction. It was maybe two weeks ago when, in the course of a 5-mile practice run with the track team, Julian had busted his ankle. There was a tight street corner they were turning, and somebody bumped into someone who knocked into Julian who promptly fel...

Do you know what the saddest part was? The words in Jeremy's head, as she walked away. Trying to retrace the steps, plot it out, figure out just exactly where he fucked it up. Like if I'd only called her a bitch and not a whore, would she still be letting me fuck her? Like a million different ways t...

She was not his girlfriend. She was not even Liz most of the time. When he was talking to her, yes, she was Liz. And when he was mentioning her to his parents (to his parents ? Whoa whoa this was getting serious) she was also usually Liz. She was Lizzie, one time, when he thought it might be a good ...

((Jeremy Franco continued from A Slight Change of Plans )) This is one for the history books. This is the story of a rat and a freak who probably never even loved each other in the first place. It was lunchtime it was November it was senior year when he first met her. Not when he first noticed her, ...

"The sensible thing to do is to shoot them. Or at least shoot Nick and then start macking on Claire." Well. How about that. Marybeth Witherspoon, you are just dumb as shit. Going around inciting murders all chirpy and bouncy... well, at the very least, it was a refreshing sign that some t...