Teen Ink

Summary: Tessa is on edge with her parents and unhappy with the fake image she must portray for them. Meeting Dakota seemed like her ticket out of fake and into irrational. But she realizes how wrong trying to use him really was and how sick love can really make you feel.

Dakota is on the move and in search for something "greater". An aspiring musician and newly 18, Dakota has ventured out on his own, from the only home he has ever known, and his sickening past. Dakota has secrets, secrets he doesn't want anyone to ever know, even himself. But meeting Tessa just might change all that...