Just a fair warning, if you haven't read the story, it's going to be ruined for you here. In order to explain the names of the chapters I have to explain their relevence to the story, and that'll just ruin any surprises I have in store for you.

The Prologue�Conservative Little Girl
This one is slightly obvious. It comes from the first line of the story, "And that's when he met her, the little girl next to the stereo." Upon learning a bit more about her, Zac realizes that Ginger is anything but conservative, and anything but a little girl.

Chapter One�The Morning After
I stole this chapter name from the no-longer-existing story "Fasttimes at Moffatt High." I stole a lot of things from that story, but, if you don't steal, you don't get very far in creative life. This name is obvious as well; this chapter starts off the morning after the party, where Zac and Ginger wake up together.

Chapter Two�The SS at Dusk
Ginger refers to Social Services as the "SS," alluding to Nazi Germany and degrading the service as well. Ever since she can remember she hasn't had a good time with this group of people, so whenever she can get in a smart remark, she does it. In this chapter, Social Services are coming to visit her and her older brother Alex at dusk.

Chapter Three�Second Guessing
I took this name from the Jonny Lang song of the same name, off his album "Wander This World." Zac and Ginger go out for breakfast and she ends up saying something she really shouldn't have said, telling him that the only reason she really was interested in him in the first place was because of who he was. Up to this point he was under the illusion that she wasn't like every other girl he's met, and he "second guesses" her first impression. This also pops up later in the story.

Chapter Four�When You're Here, You're Family
The title is the slogan for The Olive Garden, where Zac and Ginger go to have dinner. Not only that, it shows how comfortable Zac and Ginger are with each other, even though they haven't known each other for very long.

Chapter Five�Afternoon Delight
The song is "Afternoon Delight." The band is Starland Vocal Band. The song...sucks. The chapter is good, though. If you know the song, you know what the chapter is about. If you don't, it's about sex. Yay sex.

Chapter Six�Walking Away
This is another Jonny Lang song from the album "Wander This World." If you've read the story, by now you know that Ginger's situation with her brother is not good. This is the chapter where Zac "saves" her from her brother and brings her out of the dump she is currently living in. She's not walking away from Zac, she's walking away from her crappy living situation and her abusive older brother.

Chapter Seven�All In the Family
I've never actually seen an episode of All in the Family, but that's where this chapter title comes from, the TV show. I probably couldn't even tell you what the show is about, or distinguish it from any of the other shows with the word "family" in the title, but it seemed suitable for this chapter. Zac brings Ginger to Tulsa and she meets his family for the first time.

Chapter Eight�School Daze
I'm pretty sure "School Daze" is a song, but I don't really know it. I know it's used in 2001: A Space Oddessy and is spoofed in the TV show "Recess," but as Ginger's first day of temporary school in Tulsa, it seemed appropriate. She's only in school in Tulsa for a little bit, but that is enough to completely set her into a "daze" about Oklahoma life.

Chapter Nine�The Destiny of Separation
If you've been following this website for a long time, you've probably come across the section of poetry by Taurii Clover. I don't have it up on the page anymore, but it's still there. One of her poems, one of her really awesome poems at that, is entitled "The Destiny of Separation." It's obvious that Zac and Ginger couldn't spend all of their time together for the rest of their lives, as much as they wanted to. It was inevitable that at some point they would be separated, and this is the point in the story when it happens for the first time, but definitely not the last time.

Chapter Ten�My Boyfriend's Back
The title is taken from the song. I can't really write a good relationship where the couple is apart all the time, now can I? It's been a little while since Zac and Ginger have seen each other. Ginger is living with Kris and, of course, missing her boyfriend. In this chapter Zac comes back for a little while to see his girlfriend again.

Chapter Eleven�Welcome to Breakdown
This title is taken from a line in the Hanson song "Breaktown" off the new album. I don't know if it's on the new album, but I downloaded one of those little clips from kazaa and heard about forty-five seconds of the song and automatically I knew I liked it. The reason for the title is because Ginger has a pseudo-nervous breakdown after she gets bitched out by one of her teachers.

Chapter Twelve�Letting the Cables Sleep
The title is a Bush song from the album "The Science of Things." The song has a lot to do with the chapter. The lyrics suit Ginger's feelings a lot as she has a fight with Zac and at the very end of the chapter, Zac finds the bump on the back of her head that ultimately destroys her.

Chapter Thirteen�Don't Worry Baby
The title is a Beach Boys song. I absolutely love this song and it really defines Zac as he sits with Ginger at the doctor while she gets checked out for cancer.

Chapter Fourteen�Radioactive Girl
This is a play off The Simpsons' comic book character "Radioactive Man." Ginger is going through radiation for her cancer and it shows how light she is taking this subject. She has a very airy attitude towards her cancer and referring to her as a "radioactive girl" shows that.

Chapter Fifteen�Wonderful Christmas Time
The title is a Beatles song. It's ironic because Ginger is having anything but a wonderful Christmas time. She's got nasty ass cancer and she's feeling terrible. Christmas morning she wakes up and turns out to have her worst day to date, and then in the afternoon when she's feeling better, her and Zac had their worst fight to date as well.

Chapter Sixteen�Bickering
This is one of those chapters where I couldn't exactly think of a good title and just ended up with something. I don't really care for this title but I can't think of anything better, so it stays at just "bickering." Ginger and Zac are still, well, bickering after their fight the day before over Taylor, the subject of just about all of their fights, but towards the end of the chapter things get better.

Chapter Seventeen�You Say It's Your Birthday
The first part of the chapter happens on Valentine's Day and it doesn't exactly fit the title, but the second segment is on Ginger's birthday, March 25. The title is a line from the Beatles' song "Birthday," that Kris requests at lunch time and it plays in the car on the way home from school.

Chapter Eighteen�Your Body is a Wonderland
The title is from the John Mayer song of the same name off the album "Room for Squares." The song is an upbeat ode to the wonderfulness of the female body, and so is this segment. There's a lot of sex in this chapter. Zac and Ginger do it a record of seven times.

Chapter Nineteen�Problems
This is like chapter 16, Bickering. I don't like the name but I can't really think of anything else to name it. These "problems" that the title is talking about are between Ginger and her pseudo-sister Kristina. This is the first time in any of the Log stories that Kris and Ginger fight more than once, and this is the first time in this story that it happens.

Chapter Twenty�She's Leaving Home
From the beginning Zac and Ginger said that after graduation Ginger was going to move out to Tulsa to be with him. This is the chapter where it actually happens. The title is another Beatles song of the same name. Kris is leaving as well, although she's just going for the summer. Ginger and Kris are leaving home.

Chapter Twenty-One�Oklahoma!
I originally wanted to name this chapter "Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain..." but that was too long so I just shortenend it to "Oklahoma!" The title is from the song in the musical, both of the same name. The foursome are at home in Oklahoma. In the chapter, Taylor and Zac spontaneously burst into this song, so it was more than appropriate.

Chapter Twenty-Two�Riveted
This is one of my favorite chapters. It's the longest chapter and it's the one where the big secret between what exactly Taylor and Ginger have done together is revealed. "Riveted" is a restaurant/night club that the four go to on a last-minute double date after realizing they were all going there to begin with. If you read The Kris Trilogy, specifically the first couple of chapters in Leaving to Stay, you'll remember Riveted being the restaurant that Zac and Kris go to with Michelle and her boyfriend.

Chapter Twenty-Three�Piss Drunk Stupid
The title comes from a line in the song "She Loves Me Not" by Papa Roach. I wanted to use this title a number of times in the earlier chapters, but I always came up with better titles, so I stuck it here. It's not entirely relevant but I wanted to use it so much that I just had to find a chapter to stick it in. In this chapter, among other things, Zac talks to Kris and Ginger about what he and Taylor are like while drunk. It turns out when they're piss drunk, they're rather stupid.

Chapter Twenty-Four�Taylor's Magic Number
This chapter was originally entitled "Submodality," taken from The Moffatts' second album "Submodalities." I wasn't entirely sure what the word meant then and I still don't think I do now, if it even is a word, so I decided to change it at the last minute. Now it refers back to chapter Twenty-Two when Taylor says how many girls he's slept with. His magic number? Twenty-four. This chapter is Chapter Twenty-Four. What else can I say?

Chapter Twenty-Five�Saturday In the Park
The title is from the Chicago song of the same name. It's the Fourth of July (which is a line in the song) and Zac and Ginger go to McNeil Park to watch the fireworks, bringing Kris and Taylor along with them. If you know anything about these stories when they're not composed in the safety of my home computer, you know that my "code names" for the brothers Hanson are the brothers McNeil. I just had to throw that in there to spice things up and make a friend or two laugh. Anyway, back to the story: it's Saturday, it's the Fourth of July, and they're in the park. It's a perfect title.

Chapter Twenty-Six�Problems, Part Two
Another chapter that I couldn't quite find a name for. Kris and Ginger have a fight again, so they're having problems again. I named it "part two" because once again, I found myself with a chapter I really didn't know how to name.

Chapter Twenty-Seven�Riveted, Part Two
This one I actually made a "part two" on purpose. Ending the summer the way they started it, the foursome goes to Riveted again, and, again, we see something between Taylor and Ginger. Good times.

Chapter Twenty-Eight�The Color of Betrayal
What color is betrayal anyway? I'm thinking a maroon, Ginger's signature lipstick color. I didn't get this title from anywhere, I just sort of made it up, but it sounds nice, doesn't it? Ginger and Taylor have an affair behind their signifcant other's backs.

Chapter Twenty-Nine�Kiss Me at Midnight
The title comes from Nsync's song of the same name off their Christmas Album "Home for Christmas." This chapter is about a party on New Year's Eve, so a song about the same thing fit just fine. I like this chapter; it was hard to write a drunken Zac and Taylor, but I think I did just fine.

Chapter Thirty�Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme
I'd been waiting to write this chapter since the beginning of the story. The title comes from the Simon and Garfunkel song of the same name. When I started writing this story I knew eventually Zac and Ginger were going to have a long breakup, and this is the part in the story where it happens. This is also the chapter where we find out Ginger's real name. What is it? Rosemary, of course.

Chapter Thirty-One�On My Own
The chapter title comes from the Les Miserables song of the same name. Ginger has broken up with Zac and is by herself back home in Tampa. She starts from the ground up and she's alone, and the song really reflects that. I've never seen the play, but I know the song (I know it mostly because it's what Joey Potter sings during an episode of "Dawson's Creek") and I like the song.

Chapter Thirty-Two�OB What?
During Ginger's visit to her ob-gyn for the first time, Ginger tells Dr. Amoroso the reason she hadn't been to see her yet is because she didn't really know what she was doing. She says the sentence "I was like OB what?" and I thought that was really cute, so I decided to use it as the chapter name. That and I didn't know what else to name it.

Chapter Thirty-Three�Changes
I kind of stole this chapter name from the story Fasttimes at Moffatt High as well. There's a chapter, I don't remember which one, called "Ch-Ch-Changes," named after the David Bowie song. I don't particularly care for the song, but it fit the chapter quite well. Ginger meets Kris for the first time since the breakup and Kris finds out that Ginger is pregnant. This is the part in the story where things really begin to change.

Chapter Thirty-Four�With Arms Wide Open
The title comes from the Creed song with the same name off the album "Human Clay" (are you getting tired of me saying that yet?). If you know the song, you know what the chapter's about. This is the chapter where Ginger gives birth to Jenny and everything changes from then on. Even though she's by herself and she doesn't have a very stable future, Ginger welcomes her first child right away.

Chapter Thirty-Five�Davey
David, or Davey as Ginger affectionately calls him, is the boy that Ginger dated before she started dating Zac. She had a nice, long relationship with him, and he was the boy she mentions as her first back in Chapter Eighteen. She meets him again, being that she works for his brother, and old sparks fly. Ginger has a habit of not learning why there's an "Ex" in ex-boyfriend.

Chapter Thirty-Six�Catching Up
At the end of Chapter Thirty-Five, David mentions to Ginger that they should go out and "catch up." The end up back at her place and indeed catch up. Apparently in Ginger's book, "catching up" means "getting back together."

Chapter Thirty-Seven�The Lover After Me
The title comes from the Savage Garden song of the same name off the album "Affirmation." The song is actually about the guy's point of view after he breaks up with his girlfriend and she starts to see another man. This chapter isn't exactly like that, but I'd always liked the title and decided to use it. The title can go two ways: you can have the "me" refer to Zac, or you can have it refer to David. Either way it makes sense.

Chapter Thirty-Eight�Where Do We Go From Here?
The title comes from the Madonna song "You Must Love Me" off the Evita Soundtrack. After a year of being together, Ginger up and walks out on David after he says he's not sure if he wants to marry her. I admire her for doing that because I know she cared about him, but we all know she's not supposed to end up with David, right? After he leaves, Jenny breaks out in chicken pox and there's a cute scene where Ginger feels young again, and it's obvious where she's going after the relationship. She's going wherever she can go to get her daughter a father. We never see or hear from David again.

Chapter Thirty-Nine�For the Longest Time
The title comes from the Billy Joel song of the same name. It's been three years now since Zac and Ginger have seen each other, and a chance meeting in a Target near Ginger's apartment erases those three years. When Ginger met up with David she was skeptical to see him again, but when she meets Zac she's slightly upset but more than anything she's happy to see him. This is the chapter where they meet again and this is the chapter where everything comes back together.

Chapter Forty�Spilled Milk
The title comes from the Feeling Left Out song of the same name. This song defines this whole area of the story. It defines the entire story. It is the name of the story, and it is the theme of the story. If you know the song, or if you've read the lyrics, you should know exactly what I'm talking about. This chapter is about Zac and Ginger catching up a little bit and Zac has Ginger come to LA with him to live with him again. This is a good chapter.

Chapter Forty-One�We Could Live Beside the Ocean
The title comes from a line in the Everclear song "Santa Monica." Zac brings Ginger to her new home, which is convienently beside the ocean. It's rather obvious.

Chapter Forty-Two�Marky Mark
Obviously stolen from the "hip-hop" singer Marky Mark, this is about Zac's friend Mark that Ginger meets in this chapter. She's been living with Zac for about a month and a half when this attractive, thirty-seven year old man shows up on her doorstep. Apparently Mark lives two doors down and is Zac's friend who's really into music. This chapter doesn't have a major point besides that it shows one of Zac's friends and it sets up the next chapter.

Chapter Forty-Three�Saturday in the Park, Part Two
Another part two chapter! This is the last one. Mark, Zac, and Ginger go to an Ataris concert in a park on a Saturday afternoon, which gives you the reason for the title. This is the chapter where Zac proposes (again) to Ginger, which is another reason for the title, because in the first Saturday in the Park, Zac proposes to Ginger the first time. We also never see Mark again.

Chapter Forty-Four�Falling Into Place
This is the only chapter where I was completely clueless on what to name it. All the other ones that I was stuck on, yeah I came up with crappy titles but I still came up with them. Eventually I came up with Falling into Place, which is about Ginger's life. Even before Jenny was born, Ginger wanted her to have a family, with a father and a mother who were married and everything was good in the world. This is the chapter where Zac and Ginger get married, so in that instance, everything is falling into place. But, however, the title could also be "Falling Out of Place" because this is the chapter where Ginger gets her cancer back again. It's little ironies that make for a good title. I think this one is just perfect.

Chapter Forty-Five�Family Feud
I was going to name this one "All in the Family" but then I realized that I had already named a chapter that and it wasn't similar enough to be a part two. Taylor and Zac meet for the first time since Zac and Ginger broke up and it isn't good. Zac obviously still blames Taylor for everything and doesn't even want to see him again. So, Family Feud, ripped off the TV show, obviously fits.

Chapter Forty-Six�Jenny
This chapter contains a lot of Jenny. Jenny's the best little girl there ever could be. She always knows what to do in every situation, despite her young age, and can sense what everyone else is feeling and knows how to react the right way. Ginger is feeling terrible that she can't be up and around playing with her daughter because of her cancer, but Jenny pulls through and makes her mother feel so much better with a picture and a smile. This is her chapter.

Chapter Forty-Seven�Precious Things
The title comes from the Tori Amos song of the same name off the album "Little Earthquakes." I don't really know why I named this chapter the way I did but it sort of makes sense. Ginger's in surgery and for the first time Zac is realizing how important things are. He makes peace with his brother and really starts to appreciate Ginger. Ginger just starts to appreciate everything.

Chapter Forty-Eight�Anywhere, Anyplace, Anytime
The title comes from the Monkees song of the same name. It has nothing to do with the song, though. Ginger and Zac are trying to have a baby and basically need to have sex anywhere, anyplace, and at anytime. As soon as I started writing the chapter I figured it would be a cute title, and sure enough, it is.

Chapter Forty-Nine�Baby Love
Partly stolen from the Diana Ross and the Supremes song of the same name and partly used separately as "baby" and as "love." Ginger's finally pregnant so that's a big plus and her and Zac are so in love that the title just fits.

Chapter Fifty�Baby Pains and Wedding Games
Not the greatest title ever, but still a fitting one. Zac's getting the brunt of the baby pains because Ginger's moody and bitching at him all the time. Ginger's also got some baby pains of her own, what with being bigger and being pregnant and all. The Wedding Games part is because Taylor and Kris announce in this chapter that they are getting married.

Chapter Fifty-One�Christopher
This is the chapter where everybody gets to meet Christopher, Zac and Ginger's second child, for the first time. Early into the chapter Ginger goes into labor, humorously on Thanksgiving, and ends up giving birth to Christopher Joshua around one o'clock the next morning.

Chapter Fifty-Two�Murphy's Law
I absolutely abhor this title. But I can't think of anything else. If you're smart, you know that Murphy's Law is that "If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong." That pretty much describes Taylor and Kris's wedding. Among other problems, the bakery is saying that Zac never ordered a wedding cake, and the bridal shop lost Kris's dress. In the end, everything turns out all right and it's a beautiful wedding.

Chapter Fifty-Three�A Spoonful of Kisses�
I recently attended a wedding and the bride and groom had everything imaginable as remembrances. The one I liked the most was a plastic spoon with two Hershey's Kisses in it, wrapped in some kind of sheer white wrapping, with a ribbon that had their names, the date of the wedding, and the phrase "A spoonful of kisses from the new Mr. and Mrs." I decided to use that phrase as the title of Kris and Taylor's wedding, who are just as cheesy at the bride and groom of the wedding I attended.

Chapter Fifty-Four�What If?
The title is taken from another Creed song off of "Human Clay" of the same name. Ginger's sick again, although she refuses to believe it, and everybody can tell. Towards the end of the chapter she finally admits it to Zac and she knows she's going to die. She's known since she started getting sick again that this was it. She tries to talk about it with Zac, but he refuses to answer her questions. All of her questions start with that key phrase..."What if?"

Chapter Fifty-Five�The Rest of My Life
The title is taken from the Unwritten Law song of the same name. I've played this song a million times while writing this story. I actually used it earlier on in the story and at the last minute renamed that chapter to something else and used it in this chapter. Ginger goes to the doctor and finds out that she is going to die. This and the next two chapters are the rest of her life.

Chapter Fifty-Six�Frost on an Autumn Day
I was sitting in English class and one of the first poems we did this semester was "The Road not Taken" by Robert Frost. The first thing that popped into my mind after it was explained to me was Ginger. I immediately wrote this chapter. At that time I was all the way back in chapter twenty-something but I knew I had to write this chapter. On their second and final anniversary, a warm Autumn day, Zac brings Ginger hiking in the woods and along the way, the path diverges. Sound familiar? Instead of standing there, pondering which path to take like Zac (and Frost) does, Ginger doesn't hesistate for a moment before taking the path to the left. Zac doesn't know where it'll lead and Ginger tells him "You can't spend your life wondering what road is going to take you where. You just have to go where life takes you and not think about it! It doesn't matter. In the end, you would have never known the difference." And that explains everything Ginger has ever stood for.

Chapter Fifty-Seven�Bright Star
This title is taken from the poem by John Keats of the same name. I read the poem in English class and immediately went home and wrote this chapter. It'd an add-on chapter, meaning I wrote it after the story was already finished, but I think it needed to be written. If you read the poem (I don't have a link so you'll have to find it on your own) you'll understand where I was coming from; the poem is used in the scene where Zac and Ginger are lying on the couch and Ginger is listening to Zac's heartbeat.

Chapter Fifty-Eight�When I'm Gone
This title is taken from the song of the same name by Three Doors Down. This song is the theme of the final chapters. You have to know the song to understand it. I actually suggest that the song be playing while you read the last chapter because I did when I wrote it and it sets the mood...perfectly.

The Epilogue�In My Life
I don't necessarily like this as the title of the epilogue but there's nothing else to describe it. The title is taken again from the awesome Beatles, the song is the same name. It's a wonderful way to end a wonderful story.

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