An introduction

The story:
Teen drama.
Untitled.
Broken into 3 parts, so far: freshman year, boy trouble. junior year, friends trouble. senior year, family trouble.
To stay as one story or three different ones?
I lack motivation.
Started story in November. Still not finished.
At 87 pages, 47,512 words. Or so Microsoft Word tells me.

Outline:
Part 1- Fifteen
freshman girl meets junior boy. too good to be true? always is.

Part 2- seventeen
junior girl falls for best friend. do they live happily ever after or fall apart?

Part 3- eighteen
senior girl alienated from two best friends. does their friendship survive amid her big family crisis?

characters:
Taylor, girl. clumsy, witty, blonde but enlightened. used to be sure of who she was, but high school changes everything.

Christina, girl. Best friend forever. Street smart. Blunt. would do anything for her best friends, but might cross the line.

Nolan, boy. Best friend to Taylor. Loyal. Knows everything about her and vice versa. Wants to fit in the right crowd but stay true to his real friends. Jumps from girl to girl, which is not his style. His heart is true, but his head leads astray at times.

Abigail, girl. New high school friend. Brainiac in books, not boys. Fashionably challenged, but Christina comes to the rescue. Blossoms in high school. Is the 4th wheel soemtimes in the Taylor, Nolan, christina bff's syndrome.

Noah, boy. Uber cute. QB of football team. Dreamy. Taylors boyfriend in part 1. Perfect, or so it seems. No one is perfect in high school.

Taylors Mom. Loving. Accepting. Daring. Mother in spirit to Christina and Nolan, as they are always at the house. Understanding.