The chapter titles are all song titles from over the years. (As many of you might have already noticed. I didn’t come up with “Lips Like Morphine” on my own.) I really wanted to think of my own chapter titles, but the names of songs kept popping into my head. Some of these songs also were inspirations to my writing, such as “Silhouettes” and “Dark Blue”.

I would like to thank all the bands I have written down, because without them having recorded that song, that chapter title probably wouldn’t have come out so beautifully. Thank you. And now, I hope that when you think of these songs, maybe you’ll think of Aria Hale. Just maybe.

Preface

1. “A Day In the Life” – The Beatles; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club; 1967

2. “Forest” – System of a Down; Toxicity; 2001

3. “Control” – Metro Station; Metro Station; 2007

4. “Lips Like Morphine” – Kill Hannah; Lips Like Morphine – EP; 2006

5. “All Hail the Heartbreaker” – The Spill Canvas; Sunsets and Car Crashes; 2005

6. “Recipe for Disaster” – A Change of Pace; Prepare the Masses; 2006

7. “Vampires Will Never Hurt You” – My Chemical Romance; I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love; 2006

8. “Serial Kisser” – Over It; Timing is Everything; 2003

9. “Wolf Like Me” – TV On the Radio; Return to Cookie Mountain; 2006

10. “Dark Blue” – Jack’s Mannequin; Everything in Transit; 2005

11. “19th Nervous Breakdown” – The Rolling Stones; Hot Rocks; 1972

12. “Conspiracy” – Paramore; All We Know is Falling; 2005

13. “Blurry” – Puddle of Mudd; Come Clean; 2001

14. “Black Cat” – Mayday Parade; A Lesson in Romantics; 2007

15. “In The Still of the Night” – The Five Satins; Dirty Dancing: Soundtrack From Motion Picture; 1987

16. “Silhouettes” – Smile Empty Soul; Smile Empty Soul; 2003

17. “Hospital Beds” – Cold War Kids; Robbers & Cowards; 2006

18. “Hardcore Days and Softcore Nights” – Aqueduct; Pistols At Dawn – EP; 2004 (The chapter was once called High School Never Ends)

19. “Headache” – Liz Phair; Whitechocolatespaceegg; 1998

20. “Spirits in the Material World” – The Police; The Police: Every Breath You Take – The Classics; 1995

21. “Fashionably Uninvited” – Mellowdrone; Box; 2006

22. “Broken” – Seether; Disclaimer; 2002

23. “Cries in Vain” – Bullet for My Valentine; Bullet for My Valentine; 2004

24. “The Phone Call” – The Pretenders; Pretenders; 1980

25. “Saying Goodbye” - Sugarcult

26. “Cue the Sun” – Daphne Loves Derby; Good Night, Witness Light; 2007

27. “Disconnected” – The Goo Goo Dolls; A Boy Named Goo; 1995

28. “Time Stands Still” – The All-American Rejects; The All-American Rejects; 2003

29. “Play the Game” – Queen; Queen: Greatest Hits; 1994

30. “Semi-Charmed Life” – Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind: A Collection (Remastered); 2006

Epilogue: “The Man With the Dogs” – Dead Kennedys; Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death; 1987