It had been four months since Chelsea and James moved to Chicago. After James’ promotion following the success of his meeting in Boston, he had been offered a new position in the city and a significant raise. He and Chelsea had discussed the situation quite a bit. Moving meant leaving their friends where they were behind. But given their new relationship, they figured it might also be for the best. They weren’t sure how l...

Angel Green sighed as she stepped into the living room of Stuart Browning, the local art professor who had been murdered the night before, and discovered when he didn’t show up for work. Her piercing blue eyes made a quick survey of the room, where everything more or less looked undisturbed. The one exception was the couch, where the dead professor was reclining back, with signs of a minor struggle having occurred at that...

Chapter One: The Invitation Chloe slowly sipped on her mocha sweet coffee and sighed, watching as the brown of the coffee and the white of the cream danced around each other in the cup. It seemed just like Madison to set up a time to meet and then be late for her own meeting. Although, Chloe didn’t mind it all that much. She had nothing else better to do at the moment, and it allowed her to observe her surroundings, as sh...

Leslie had been staring at her budget sheet for the past few hours. There was no mistake: she was in trouble. She had just finished her second year of college, and her loans were starting to get out of control. Worse, she had no money to pay for her apartment after the next month. Just to pile on, her car had just broken down, meaning she was going to have to somehow scrounge up money to get a new one while also having no...

“How are you still a virgin?” asked a girl sitting on a beanbag in the corner of the light-pink-walled bedroom. She was Hispanic with tan skin, brown hair that was about shoulder length and quite wavy, and brown eyes. She was wearing a black tank top and a pair of gray sweat shorts. “You didn’t fuck Cory when you dated him?” she asked incredulously. “N-no. We never got around to doing anything like that, really. We just ....

Chelsea stood in the kitchen of her and her brother James’ apartment chopping vegetables for dinner. Dinner would often be something they both worked on, unless one of them was making one of their specialties, but tonight James was late coming home, something that had recently been happening a bit more often. Ever since their night a few months prior, things had seemed to be a bit - different - between the two. Not awkwar...

Vickie wasn’t sure which one to pick. All three brothers had presented her with excellent options that were well crafted and large, and it was up to her to choose the winner. But did she, really? She felt all of them were deserving of the prize. “I think…you all win!” she finally declared as she walked towards the trio. The brothers flashed huge grins on their faces as she approved of all three of their members, of which...

The only good thing about the dinner so far, Chelsea thought, was the food. Her date was boring. Her brother’s girlfriend was rude. And while she had gotten plenty of compliments about her little black dress, it was starting to feel constraining and uncomfortable. However, the steak and asparagus - that was excellent - and as her date kept bragging about how much money he was saving his company by writing more efficient c...