1. Abandoned

Gary Smith, of all people, knew; the best part about having no one was that you could never, ever be abandoned.

2. Abduction

Peanut was convinced that Lola Lombardi had to be some sort of extraterrestrial form who had abducted Johnny Vincent—how else could he explain how Johnny had turned into someone Peanut could barely recognize overnight?

3. Accidents

"You can't honestly expect me to touch something so sweaty," Gord squealed at Jimmy after having accidentally crashed the go-kart into the brick wall.

4. Accomplish

"YES, YOUR ELF PRINCESS IS FINALLY MINE!" Fatty screamed at Algernon, finally having won the card after the seventh game that night.

5. Adapt

The fact remained that Mandy, her best friend of so many years, had changed, and no amount of praying or crying would ever change that, so Zoe would just have to get used to it and adapt.

6. Admission

"I think… I love her," Ted admitted in a quiet mumble, evading his eyes from the shocked and disbelieving faces of his teammates.

7. Advice

"Guys are way easy to understand," Trent told Gord in a very as-a-matter-of-factly voice as he puffed on his cigarette, "the trick is, you just gotta offer him to make out under the bleachers, and make it real clear that you got a bag of beef jerky you're willing to split."

8. Aging

The worst part was that Wade had been this way since he was sixteen, indifferent to the world and simply allowing it to push him forward whichever way it deemed reasonable as he aged onwards, aimlessly.

9. Alcoholism

She watched quietly as Ricky drank himself into a deep, inescapable pit, searching for the right words to get him to stop—but what could she do, being in the exact same position?

10. Alienation

But Derby couldn't love Pinky, so maybe it was just better if he spent some time by himself for a while.

11. Amnesia

Clint or Henry… Clint or Henry… he couldn't remember which was his name, but as the orderly's syringe pierced into his skin, it didn't really matter.

12. Angry

Tom wiped at his eyes furiously as he woke up, the image of Wade's grave clear in his mind, the thoughts of having failed his best friend still fresh and echoing… he hated having nightmares like that.

13. Aphrodisiacs

Johnny sucked in a breath as he watched her let her long hair down before jumping into the lake in the night's darkness—she was like a fucking drug to him, and as she turned to smile at him, beads of water twinkling off the moonlight on her fair skin, he realized he just had to accept it.

14. Apocalypse

The thing was, Johnny knew who the last person he'd see at the end of the world was, and it wasn't Lola, no… it was Peanut.

15. Apple

Eunice let out a deep sigh as she slumped back in her cafeteria seat—it'd been a week since her diet had begun, and she'd barely eaten anything besides water—when suddenly an apple plunked onto her tray, and she turned only to stare at the retreating back of none other than Derby Harrington.

16. Arguments

"You're gonna turn out jutht like Dad!" Thad screamed at his older brother, but instantly regret it when he saw the stunned, wounded look on Dan's face before he began walking away, breaking out into a sprint as soon as Thad called his name.

17. Ashes

Trent shivered as he inspected the ashes that were left over from a couple of badly burned bleachers in the gym—he had to hand it to that Hopkins kid, maybe he was a twerp, but at least the ashes were of bleachers and not of Kirby.

18. Asphyxiation

He was struggling for air, oxygen, anything, but all that surrounded Ted was reminders of Beatrice, Beatrice everywhere, Bea and her long hair, Bea and the glasses she was so embarrassed of, Bea reciting the periodic table, everywhere, she lingered.

19. Assault

Gary's eyes blazed with fury as he launched himself at the orderly—how dare he compare him to his coward of a father?

20. Atomic

Peanut's eyes widened as he did his best to keep Johnny and her apart—they were atomic, and without him there to neutralize them, their reaction together would be catastrophic, and surely the end for them both.