Meredith and Finn were once friends. Things were fine until middle school, when over the space of a summer Finn got “hot” and all the popularity that came with it, leaving Meredith to slowly drift away. Now, in their senior year of high school, their history as childhood friends couldn’t feel any more distant.While Meredith wants to get through high school asquickly as possible so she can move onto college, Finn is breezing through the social side. With his spot on the swim team, buckets of natural charisma and a well-earned position in the popular crowd, he’s been set for the entire four years.Meredith is convinced she has his crowd figured out; she knows they’re all stuck-up airheads and is happy to avoid them all. Especially Finn.When an incident in biology class leads to Finn getting them both into detention, Meredith sees it as just another reason to hate him. However, as the pair spend more time together, she comes to realize that maybe her preconceived beliefs about his crowd aren’t as accurate as first thought. There is a lot more to Finn than meets the eye.Ever since his dad walked out on his mom five years ago, his mom has worked unsociable hours in a dead-end job as a waitress just to support the family. Finn has spent his entire high school life trying to scrape decent grades and earn a swim scholarship to college, while balancing helping his mom out with his younger siblings. He doesn’t have it as easy as Meredith assumed.As the pair get closer again, Finn is able to wear down Meredith’s cynicism and possibly weave his way into her heart as well.
It’s practically a proven fact that most teenagers go through their first heartbreak in high school. Marco and Peyton have one thing in common; they’re both being cheated on by somebody they care about. The only difference is that Peyton has known about her boyfriend’s extra-curricular dating life for quite some time, whereas Marco is just now finding out about his unfaithful girlfriend. As the two spend more time together and take on different adventures, they help each other overcome their reasoning for staying with people who don’t deserve them. Once Marco and Peyton ditch their not-so-significant others, they start to fall for each other even though they’re on opposite sides of the high school spectrum. Marco’s nice and shy and Peyton’s hilariously witty and cynical, but as they come together they balance each other out quite perfectly through their coincidental heartbreak.
Duff. One simple, 4 letter word that has the potential to severely ruin someone's entire high school experience. Every group has one; the most unattractive member of the group who is also the easiest to talk to, therefore making their friends more appealing. But Hayley Bloom learns that being the duff isn't always so fun, and maybe, just maybe, being yourself could be kinda cool.
Abby answers a letter from someone struggling with the silly labels tossed around the halls of high school....
Hey guys this is my entry for #theduffcontest. I worked really hard on it and I hope you enjoy, also good luck to anyone else who is entering, you all are a amazing! Ever since I was born I have been labeled. This is the story of me breaking my stereotype. Don't ever let anyone tell you who you are. The only thing that truly defines you is your DNA. There is no label or stereotype in the world that can define your awesomeness. This story is based on my experiences. Any names in this story are fake except for mine.No matter what your going through please stay strong. -Belinda
Everyone struggles to fit in, in high school. They think that they have to be like the others, to feel normal. Everyone has their clique. The jocks, the band geeks, the cheerleaders, emos, goths. But I've been in high school for 2 years now. I still don't know what mine is.Do I have one at all? Or do I have to stand alone?
Nico has a secret. And even if it's the one thing holding him back from living a fulfilling life, he has to admit... it's kind of funny.[an entry for #TheDUFFcontest ; ~850 words]
Dress Code.Every school had a dress code. Schools that did not have a dress code have only succeeded in finding a way to lie to their students about not having a dress code.Don’t try to deny it. Dress Code was a cruel way of separating students with the money to buy the newest fashion- hence the “Ins”- and those who didn’t, otherwise known as the “Outs”. It made Emily sick. So this year, she had a plan.This year was going to be different. #TheDUFFContest Entry
Kelsey is the new girl at Baney High. BH takes stereotypes to a new level and Kelsey is about to find out just how important status is in this short story about friends, stereotypes, and finding out who you truly are
Samantha was an art nerd. At least, that's what her friends call her. She never limited her friendship circle to just art people. She loved everyone, except the twins, Erin and Jack. Jack was the star football player, captain for his entire high school career. Erin was the star of basketball. Sam doesn't usually hate people, but ever since Erin won an art contest by cheating, Sam has never looked at her in a friendly way again.Erin obviously has better things than to think about that art contest. She didn't even keep the piece of art. Erin has to worry about other things, like her boyfriend and basketball. Jack doesn't even realize that Sam hates him. He's probably the nicest person you'll ever meet. It's Junior year now, Sam is trying to get her portfolio for schools ready. What happens when she accidentally starts a series on Jack?
Lidia is an artist.Angie is an athlete.Lidia is the younger sister of Angie, and everyone believed that she would follow Angie and be the next thing in sports. Just like Angie is.Lidia prefers painting over basketball, she'd rather listen to music then run track. She's the opposite of her sister yet she always hears her family say, "She'll grow out of it," and, "Why don't you just try it, you might just like it." She's been living in her sister's shadow for her entire life, she's finally sixteen and Lidia is done with it.Will her family, especially her sister Angie, finally realize that she isn't Angie Reincarnated, or will the artist be forgotten? This is a short story following a young girl trying to find her way in this world instead of living in her sister's shadow.#TheDUFFContestCover made by: @HailPerseusJackson
"Let's Be Honest" is a story about a person learning to have the confidence to accept who they are.Written for the #TheDUFFContestThank you for reading!!
A short story written for the #TheDUFFContest. Please enjoy!
Started: 9/11/16Finished 29/11/16////////////////////////What star signs are you?///////////////////////#27 star signs#282 in signs
This is my entry for The DUFF writing contest. I had a blast writing this story! Enjoy! Best friends Tori and Chase have been the target of school bully Beverly Montclair for years. After she makes a threat that could jeopardize the rest of Tori's school year, the girls decide to confront her once and for all, but when they take their plan too far and break into her house, they make a shocking discovery.
Quinn was the most popular girl, well her two best friends were and that automatically means you're popular right? But, when her so-called best friends apply to a magnet school just days before the start of their Junior year, without them, she'll see how 'popular' she really was.Quinn is now known as the wannabe dumped by her friends and she soon realizes she was just a third wheel while her best friends did everything together. Because of the negativity, she begins to flunk and soon is about to repeat her Junior year if she doesn't do a project with a girl, Zoey, the loser of all losers. Together, they rip off any name they were once called and Break Free from the high school of cliques, social pyramids, and stereotypes and Quinn begins to become the girl she once was.
Lily is a new student also known as the DUFF to friend Brooke who claims that they are friends forever.
A simple short story about a girl with two different eye colors, realizes that stereotypes are way more overrated then they need to be and simplicity is underrated. (For #TheDUFFContest)------Do not post this story anywhere else without my consent. That would be considered plagiarism. Do not comment hate or promote your own stories in the comments. There are clubs for that purpose.This story is under 'All Rights Reserved' so please no copying or stealing. Copyright © 2015 OneNOnlyAri, AriThank you,Ari
For the first time, the heroine might not even need a guy to seal her happy ending.When Melonie tells her boyfriend: ‘John, I think I’m asexual’, she turns single, friendless and terribly heartbroken within a day. She could probably be considered as an aquatic creature from all the tears she’s been swimming in. Her label as ‘John’s Girlfriend’ now stripped off, she becomes a ‘nobody’ and is on the verge of changing herself for her ex. Until she meets the school’s alpha, Jupiter Rogan, a superior, pretentious nerd with a ‘too-cool-for-romance’ attitude, and begs to become like her, wanting to be admired by everyone instead of being looked down upon. But once befriending the tight pack of elite nerds, although Jupiter proves to her you don’t need a boy to be happy and illustrates self-appreciation; how the empowerment of femininity, friendship and happiness can exist without young love—things don’t go as planned.  Can Melonie accept herself for who she is or will she get carried away in the transformation?
Ok this is my story of how I became myself in school. Hope you enjoy.
Follow Jakey and Jules on their 'adventure' to cure writer's block.**This story is a short story purely written to be entered into the Duff writing contest**
My entry for the Duff writing contest! We're all prismatic, once we're held under the right light.
Claire Thomas hates Valentine’s Day, and it’s not because she’s never had a boyfriend. Every year, the Slinger High student council runs a carnation sale to raise money for the spring dance. Students can order the flowers—red for love, pink for friendship, and white for secret admiration—and have them delivered to other students during 8th period on February 14th. The sale is a great fundraiser, but it’s also one huge popularity contest; whoever receives the most white carnations is deemed the hottest girl in school.Claire knows better than to hope for a flower. The only girls who get them are the gorgeous ones, like queen bee Nora and her best friend Phoebe.Even though Claire openly criticizes the carnation sale to her best friend and longtime crush Max, she is secretly hoping that he will send her one anyways. She wants to admit how she really feels, but Max would never go for a girl like her—a goody two-shoes who never misses a homework assignment and tutors struggling math students on the weekend. It’s better off that she keep her mouth shut and preserve their friendship.When Valentine’s Day arrives, Claire is shocked to find that someone has sent her not one, but a dozen white carnations. It’s not enough to win the contest—Nora received thirty-five—but Claire is still giddy. Then Max asks her to be his date to a party on Saturday, so it has to be him who sent her the flowers.But everything isn’t as it seems, and Claire starts to realize that she can either be left heartbroken or find the confidence to go after what she truly wants.