Selfish Appetite [5 Seconds of Summer]

So this is where we are

🪻Just in case you feel like skipping the Author's Note (A/N), here are the trigger warnings for this novel! 

Trigger warnings, please be advised: Mental health struggles, domestic abuse mentions, suicidal thoughts, foul language and explicit scenes, death and loss, substance abuse.

Trigger warnings will not be added on chapters separately!!!

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The next author notes will be tiny, I promise!

First of all, thank you for clicking on this novel. 

I know the band is now in a completely new phase in their lives... married, expecting kids. Life has changed significantly since I was just a teenager listening to songs about rose tattoos, underwear and heartbreak girls. 

So am I, I'm almost 25 now. 
Still a fan of the band, I don't think that will ever change. 

The one thing that's changed is that I have a journalism and communications degree now. 

What you need to know about this novel is that it's just me granting teenage-me's wish. Doing this purely for nostalgic reasons, since all of the fan-fictions I've written over the years never left the archives. 

I'm doing this for the hell of it, to remember what it was like back then to read & write stories about 5sos, for the feeling of falling in love with a book, a character. 

Even if no one ends up reading this, I would have done something for younger me, and that in itself, is therapeutic enough. 

We all need to grant wishes to our younger selves every now and then. 

This novel is also about testing the human limits, testing how far one's patience will stretch, when it comes to love. It will test your patience as you read it, but it's human nature, it's unexpected and not always rational. 

Also, it's an A.U story, meaning Alternate Universe, meaning the guys are not in the band. Their lives and backgrounds have been altered or completely ignored for the purposes of the story. 

Thank you, for choosing to go on this journey with me!

I appreciate you all. 

-Irene x

Read, feel it, enjoy, relate, cry, open your heart and your mind- that's what reading books is about.