Sam was having a definite misunderstanding with the bookcase ( Read more... )

It was Marissa's third day on the island, and things weren't getting any less strange. The weather had been horrible the entire time, and when Summer tried to assure her that it was normally sunny and pleasant, Marissa couldn't help but feel as if she'd brought the storm with her, like one of those gloomy cartoon characters who have a rain cloud ( Read more... )

[Timed to Saturday, September 20th.]

After discovering Vorenus and Pullo gone, a heart-broken Isabel literally runs into Tim. After learning what happened, Tim grows concerned and gets Isabel as far away from the market as possible. He offers to stay with her for a while and Isabel elects to come to his messy hut for a couple of days.

For Jess, the train of thought between feeling frustrated with about a half dozen things that'd been going on and making her way to the ball diamond to hit some balls was a straightforward one. Smacking things with a bat was just what the doctor ordered, and if in the process she got a little practice in, so much the better ( Read more... )

For two days, the jukebox had been playing Penny nothing but love songs ( Read more... )

Want to know how to make a party happen? Take two bored teenage girls, a crate of champagne and a whole lot of free time, and sooner or later, something's bound to turn up. On the Upper East Side, the spoiled spawn of the fabulously wealthy don't wait to get invites - they make the party come to them. And you can take the girls out of the city, but ( Read more... )

It looked like it was going to storm. I was standing on the front stoop of the Compound, drying my wet hands on my apron as I peered critically up at the cloudy sky. There was only one small window in the kitchen, high up on the wall and covered in steel bars like a prison, and having put my last cake of the afternoon in to bake, I'd decided to ( Read more... )

The whole drive over, the whole time she was pushing her way through the crowded halls, all she could hear was what Tim'd said to her. Even as she excused herself, squeezing between groups of girls on her way toward her own team, his words echoed in her head.

'Cause you're an amazing cheerleader. And I think that you get that same feeling that I ( Read more... )

A couple days after the evening of Atia's party, in which Tim had caught Jason with Georgie in his lap, the two best friends inevitably come across each other. The meeting is tense and uncomfortable and, in the end, nothing is really reconciled. But, it's possible nothing is completely broken either.

[Rated PG-13 for language and content and ( Read more... )

I've got a finished baseball field, new packs of smokes, and a room that's nearly ready to be moved into. Hell, if I didn't know better, I'd almost say things were starting to swing my way again ( Read more... )