Ben Kerns is filled with stories. Not his own, his are too difficult to tell. He's never seen without a book in his hand and a bruise on his skin.

Miles is nervous and quiet. He graduated early to escape the bullying and chaos of high school, but adulthood hasn't offered the escape he had hoped for. Isolated and adrift, he struggles with panic attacks, loneliness, and memories that refuse to stay buried. His world shifts when he meets Atticus. Confident, kind, and impossible to ignore. Miles quickly begins to crave the connection he never thought he deserved. As their relationship deepens, so does Miles's hope that maybe someone could love him enough to help him heal, but the past has a way of catching up. Because love, as beautiful as it is, doesn't always drown out the noise, and silence can be louder than anyone realizes. Set against a backdrop of late-night parties, quiet heartbreaks, and moments of painful honesty, Loud Silence is a slow-burning, coming-of-age story about identity, survival, and the terrifying hope of letting someone in. This is the first long-form story I've ever written. I would love feedback as long as it's respectful. This story has been swirling around my head for years, and I'm excited to finally fight against my own anxiety and put it out into the world. ⚠️ Trigger & Content Warning ⚠️ Loud Silence contains boy x boy romance and deals with heavy mental health themes, including depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, abuse (emotional, physical, and sexual), sexual identity struggles, and death. I do everything I can to portray these themes honestly and respectfully. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Best rankings: #1 in mental health #6 in gay #12 in gaylovers #17 in boyxboyromance #30 in gaypride #26 in anxietyattacks #76 in homosexual

"I can't help what I do, it's an impulse."

After his parents' sudden death, Chester Covington leaves everything behind and moves in with his aunt. But nobody knows what is going on behind the facadé of a traumatized boy who has watched his parents die that he puts up ever single day of his life. They only know one side of him, never the other. He shuts everyone off and isolates himself, trying to protect what is left of his fragile heart. But when he stumbles upon Riku Hamming, the school's very own 'psychopath', indescribable feelings are set free within him and the pull he feels is almost impossible to ignore. With reunited friends, a friend's love struck brother, a psychotic bad boy and a haunting past, Chester is in for the time of his life. But will his scars and memories allow him to move on? - ?? ?????? ???????! ??????????????: ??????????; ??????? ?? ?????, ???????? ??? ????-????.

"My mother once told me there are three, and only three, truly defining moments in your life. One: When you don't know. Two: When you realize you don't know. Three: When you know. This is about the third one." --- Angel Young is going to die. Or at least he thought so. But when he prepares himself for the fall of the 7 stories, he gets a strange call that suddenly stops him. Haruki Nakamura is going to die. Or at least he plans on it. But right when he looks down the face of his open bedroom window, he decides to give life one last shot to keep him around. When a wrong call to the right person turns both of the boys' deteriorating lives towards each other, they make a pact to put off their deaths for one year in a last promise they will give their world one more chance before saying goodbye. And if at the end of it they still can't find reason to go on, they'll both fall together. After all, if they can't save themselves, then they can at least try to save each other. [AVAILABLE ON AMAZON PAPERBACK & KINDLE] [COMPLETED] [≈350,000 WORDS] [FEATURED BY WATTPAD lgbtq] [TEENFIC AMBASSADORS "COMING-OF-AGE" FEATURE] [#2 IN ASIAN] [#9 IN DARK HUMOR] [#13 IN SLOWBURN] [#22 IN GAY]

A love letter that aches. A goodbye note that holds all the memories And two souls hanging on by a thread. Astra is no stranger to grief. She lost her little sister, Harley, and the silence left behind has followed her ever since. But when she meets Orson-a quiet boy with haunted eyes and too many secrets-something in her begins to stir again. Something like hope. Orson is planning to die. He's counted the days, written the note, and picked the place. But then comes Astra-light-filled, stubborn, and terrifyingly kind-and suddenly, letting go doesn't feel so simple. As the days draw closer to Orson's planned goodbye, Astra finds herself falling for the boy made of silence and sorrow. And Orson, against every part of him that has given up, starts to wonder: what if he stayed?

"A sweet tooth for you"

"I just wanna feel something"

After being disowned by her parents, fifteen year old Serena Verlice finds herself in a toxic relationship with a much older man. She undergoes four years of emotional and physical abuse until one day she goes to the doctor and receives a devastating diagnosis. Deciding that she wasn't going to spend however long she has left with her cruel fiancé, she takes off in the night, spending months on the run. She bounces around Italy from hostel to hostel, working any job she can get as her health slowly deteriorates. Desperate for money, she agrees to do a small drug run for a local cartel and somehow becomes targeted by the notorious Italian mafia. After finishing their education abroad in England, Emilio and Lucian Cruz return home to Italy to help their parents run their mafia. Their parents; overwhelmed by threats coming from their enemies, reluctantly put their sons in charge of eliminating rival cartels. But what happens when on a mission Emilio comes across a girl who catches his eye.

When a teen boy moves to a new schools, with deep trauma and bad anxiety, he meets a girl, who somehow, lights up his life.