Explanations:

Sunday Drive
I wanted to make up a band for Elisa and Bennett to be obsessed with. I owe all of my love to music to The Early November so this band is more or less the Early November in fictional form. The name is from my favorite Early November song and it's the first song I ever identified Bennett with. But later my image of Sunday Drive turned into the band Brand New. The songs I describe are basically my opinions on my favorite Brand New songs although the life and death of the fictional band Sunday Drive is parallel if not exactly the same as the life and death of The Early November when it comes to years and where I pinpoint events in my stories.

IHOP
A bounce off of Sarah Dessen and her Waffle House that later turned into something I could directly link to my main inspiration for these stories AKA a certain album from a certain favorite band of mine. Plus my love for their chocolate chip pancakes and my boredom with strawberries and whipped cream.

Bennett Williams
To be honest I'm changing his last name if I can or his name completely. Why? Because it lines up to exactly with my main inspiration for his character. One of the reasons these stories are changing a lot is because I relied to much on my inspiration for a plot so I'm changing so much in these stories as they have grown to much as original stories to be purly "fan-fiction" pieces and rip-offs on real life. But the acoustic project is too main of a part for me to surrender and the song-writing also of Bennett cannot be taken out.

Jonah's Engery Shot Abuse
To annoy my mother at Office Max I read all the details of one of those "five hour energy shots" outloud to her and was actually interested in them. As you can see my original intention of Jonah was just to be a friend and for Sean to be more of a part BUT as I started concieving the idea of one day taking twenty-four hours worths of five hour energy shots I decided to add them ot his character making him much more flambouyant and Jonah-esque and suprisingly everyone loves him and I do as well.

Kerrington in a Whole
I was listening to "Fast Times at Barrington High" by the Academy Is... for the first time and came up with the scene I remember posting of a punk-rocker and a personality-less girl liking him and having a boyfriend. Rainie and Paul came to be out of nowhere. The night under the streetlight was when I first came up with Rainie as the pretty ex-girlfriend whose in love. That's when Paul and Rainie caught my attention. But the two high school thing was a real-life thing I stole and added to it.

Carol's Coffeeshop
I'm fascinated by coffee-shops. I love them. I wish I could drink coffee. Having Elisa work there was natural and the jelly donuts were just something I had on my mind because I used to love the Dunkin Donuts jelly donuts.