In this short story Road to Success you will find that Samantha an A student has fallen in love with her teacher Mr. Patterson. Tatyana, a party girl, struggle's through school. She is going through a hard time focusing on her mother's addiction with alcohol and her boyfriend Steven's death. Diamond the mother hen of the group is the one who keeps her friends on track while dealing with her own personal life. This is a story of many girls living on the east side of Baltimore Maryland struggling to walk across the stage.