What am I doing here? she asked herself. Had she traveled nearly two thousand miles for this? It would be a tranquil place if the valley wasn’t cluttered with intoxicated youths. It all seemed wrong now. Hours of thought had gone into this cross-country road trip. Now here she was, smashed against foreign bodies, but completely alone in the crowd. Her friends were becoming amorphous and blending in with the rowdy cluster,...

The sun tried to break the screen the opaque blue clouds made, but it was too much of a struggle. The first flakes of snow cascaded from the ominous clouds and froze onto the dying brown grass blades. She could feel the excitement pulsating through the campus as the slick white sheet began to consume the ground underneath it. It had been one of those rough and disheartening weeks that dragged on without stopping to let yo...

"Gross!" I shouted out the jeep window as we soared down the express way and a bug flew in my mouth. I was in the back seat with my sister while my older sister and her husband were up front. It was early July in Michigan and that meant one thing, everyone was heading up north for the Fourth of July. I normally didn't like to go camping but it was tradition in my family to retreat to the upper peninsula for a couple weeks...

"Oh man," Stefan growled as I stopped kissing him and pulled myself off of his body. "I have to stop," I said shyly. "You're too big of a tease, Avery," he replied while he took a deep breath. My boyfriend Stefan and I had been dating for over a year. I was still infatuated with him and loved our relationship, however, I felt like having sex too early would be bad and we still hadn't done it yet. I fumbled for his TV remo...