Finally, with this last ingredient, I should be finished, Samantha thought to herself as she slowly, carefully began to pour the liquid from a test tube into a beaker sitting on the lab’s counter. The liquid from the tube splashed into the beaker, and at first, the reaction was just what she expected. Unfortunately, the new mixture began to bubble and rise, eventually pouring over the top of the beaker. "No, no, no, no, n...

"So, Gabby, are you doing anything yet for the weekend?" Megan asked her friend Gabriela."Nothing so far. Why?""Well, my parents are heading to our cabin in Oregon for the weekend, and since I’m seventeen now, I asked them if I could stay home alone without anyone watching me, and they said yes. So I was thinking, do you wanna have a sleepover this weekend?""Hell yes," Gabriela excitedly responded. “We haven’t had one of...

The bell signalling that the first class of the day was going to begin in ten minutes rang and students began to head for the front door of the school. Michael and Todd waited in the parking lot to catch their friend Lisa before she joined the sea of students flowing into the school. As Michael calmly scanned the paths leading to the school, Todd fidgeted nervously. “You okay, man? You look like you’re going to pass out,”...

His eyes darted wildly to either side of the house as he rang the doorbell for a second time, fearing that his girlfriend would show up early to see her friend. Todd was meeting Harper, his girlfriend’s best friend, at her house for a quick fuck before the two girls were going to meet to practice some new cheers. Harper liked playing things dangerously and cutting things close, Todd not so much; he didn’t find the concept...

The day had barely begun, but already, Kimberly Dane had a feeling that today was going to be pretty sad. She sighed as she looked at her backyard through the glass doors of her kitchen as she took sips of coffee from her mug. She had just gotten back from what was supposed to be a romantic weekend in New York with her husband, Chip, but things didn’t exactly go as planned… at all. Her husband ended up working on his lapt...

It was almost time for seventeen-year-old Jason Clipper to head out for school. Summer vacation was one week away, and the last thing he wanted to do was get detention, especially if it fell on the last day of classes, when the sickest of all parties would be happening. He stepped out of the shower, dried himself off, and wrapped the towel he was using around his waist. As he was about to put on some deodorant, Jason reme...

It was not a good day. It was the afternoon of Halloween, and just hours earlier my sort of girlfriend, Lisa, had told me that we were over. I should have seen it coming; we didn’t really connect like most couples do. Our relationship was more a matter of convenience, one that meant we wouldn’t be the only two seniors with no significant other to go with to school events and parties. I guess it was just as well, since we...

Mike’s night was falling apart. “But honey, this is supposed to be a romantic evening with,” he struggled to phrase it with finesse, “an intimate ending. How are we supposed to do that if you end up falling asleep before I get back home? Can’t we just call her a cab?” His wife, Cindy, sighed in response. “Sweetie, someone needs to bring Megan home, and I’ve had too much wine, so it’s going to have to be you,” she explaine...

The final bell rang as teacher Marcus Jackson was putting tests into his briefcase to grade over the weekend. It was Friday, so all of his students fled out of the classroom like it was on fire. He got a few goodbyes and some well-wishes for the weekend from some of his more studious students, however, most simply ran off like some girl had lost her top outside. After the last of his students left, another teacher, Philip...

"Becky!" Eighteen-year-old Phil Dane yelled at his seventeen-year-old stepsister. "What the fuck is your problem?" He steamed."I don't have a problem," she merrily replied. "I got the last slice of pizza, so I’m good," she said as she licked the remaining piece of pizza from tip to crust before taking a bite."What the hell is with you, sis? You already had two slices and so did mom and dad. I should have gotten two as wel...

When I was fifteen my mother left my dad and me. It wasn’t her fault; my dad was such a hound dog. As much as my mom and I wanted to live together, she told me that she had almost no money, seeing as how my dad made her sign a pre-nuptial agreement when they got married, leaving her with little money of her own. My mom and I are still really close and we typically see each other at least once a week. Within a year my dad...

While most teachers, students and other school staff were enjoying the last day before classes started, I, teacher Philip Caan, was waiting in my classroom to speak with a student I had met at the end of last term. Harper Stone was a seventeen-year-old soon to be senior who, as of the end of last term, was a shy, slightly awkward girl with a lot of issues fitting in with her peers. I met with her and her parents at the en...