Some people are your first kiss. Your first heartbreak. Your first home. Some people are all three. Rowan has known Amara for as long as she can remember. They grew up together, survived adolescence together, and became each other's firsts, first kiss, first platonic love, first mistakes, first time discovering what it meant to want someone. Somewhere along the way, they stopped being just best friends and became something neither of them ever bothered to name. Now, at twenty, they've left home for college and moved into an apartment together near campus. But college means new people, new possibilities, and a world much bigger than the one they built together. As they begin growing into women instead of the girls who grew up side by side, the lines between friendship and something deeper begin to blur.

2026 Watty Awards Shortlist Finalist! Helena Pierce has it all. A company built from nothing, wealth, a best friend who knows her better than she knows herself, and a brother who would move mountains for her. On paper, her life is flawless. But perfection doesn't fill the emptiness. Helena is lonely and love has never come easily, and when it did, her need for control always pushed it away. She rules every part of her life with iron precision, and that same power keeps her from letting anyone in. Helena doesn't know how to surrender - and maybe, deep down, she fears what would happen if she did. ❁ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ ˋˏ༻❁༺ˎˊ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ ❁ June Holloway refuses to back down. Words are power, and behind a screen, she wields them all. Declared deaf at six, though she had struggled to hear long before, she controls her world from home, safe from the noise and chaos she can't fully navigate... but safety has a price. She has her work, a best friend who never leaves her side, and a brother who would give his life for her. Yet love has always been complicated. Speaking, hearing, connecting - it should be simple, but for June, it's a battle she fights again and again, never easily won. Even so, she keeps trying. Even so, she refuses to be silenced. ❁ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ ˋˏ༻❁༺ˎˊ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ ❁ Since June starts working for Helena, things begin to unfold and feelings grow quietly, almost unnoticed. Both hide behind screens, careful and measured, yet there is a pull between them they can't ignore. Every word, every message lingers a little longer, makes them think a little more. Neither is ready to admit how much they want it to go further. Helena doesn't know June is deaf, and could that secret change everything between them? #1 under #lesbian 1/9/26 #1 under #wlw 1/11/26 #1 under #sapphic 1/12/26 #1 under #girls 3/15/26

Sabrina Carpenter is your all American 17 year old popular blonde cheerleader in Orange County, California. She's a cheerleader, popular and has more money and friends than one teenager needs. She can have anything in this world. Y/N Y/L/N is the opposite. She isn't poor by any means but doesn't drop in wealth or excellence that Sabrina does. Her idea of a good time is staying home studying or spending time with her family. What happens when two worlds collide?

"You don't know how much it hurts me seeing you with him. I tell you about it, you apologize then go on with your life like nothing even happened" She frowned her eyebrows as I spoke "baby you know I care about how you feel but I can't just break up with him-" i cut her off "why not?" "I know you and I are completely different people and your dad obviously doesn't like me but we both know you don't care about what your dad says so what is it? Why won't you break up with him and be with me?" She stayed quiet and looked down, not saying anything "talk to me when you figure shit out" --- This story will include: (warnings) -detailed sexual content -mental/physical abuse -sexual assault/harassment -abuse -violence -alcohol, drugs, weed etc. -family issues

"She became everything the world ever wanted and I became someone who had to learn how to live without her." ────────────────────────────────────── This story is WLW || Intersex ────────────────────────────────────── TW | This story includes: •Abuse •PTSD •Slurs •Alcohol, Smoking, Drugs •Language •Detailed Sexual Content

Leah Kipping-known to the world simply as LK-walked away from music at the height of her career. For four years, she disappeared. No albums. No interviews. No explanations. Then one chance meeting changes everything. Kim Kardashian never expected the quiet singer to become one of the most important people in her life. What begins as an unlikely friendship slowly turns into something neither of them sees coming. Kim Kardashian x Fem OC All work is my own please do not steal.

" keh-" " sometimes i feel like i chose the wrong person" she said cutting me off. " keh what are you talking about" i chuckled. " you understand me a lot more than he does y/n and do things to me easily that he can't do... sometimes i hate that you ain't ain't your best friend" what happens when you start falling for ur best friends girl and she starts falling back. #1 in kehlani 5/27/24

She's the kind of person women fantasize about and regret in equal measure. Y/n Saint Y/ln knows exactly what she is: controlled, careful, and dangerously good at giving people what they want. In front of a camera, behind the scenes, in the quiet spaces where desire turns sharp, she's built a life on rules. No promises. No pretending. No love story waiting on the other side of the bed. Then there's Inde. Beautiful in a way that feels like a threat, she doesn't fall at Y/n's feet or flinch from her darkness. She watches her too closely, pushes too hard, and makes Y/n want things she's spent years refusing to name. What starts as tension becomes temptation, and temptation turns into something far more reckless when she looks Y/n in the eye and asks for exactly what she's been trying not to give. But wanting each other is the easy part. The hard part is what comes after, when lust starts to feel a little too much like trust, and the one bad habit neither of them can quit might just be each other. G!P Y/n x Inde Navarette

Twenty-Six-year-old Serenity James is the governor's daughter. Her whole life she's always thought her father's job in politics was fairly uninteresting and monotonous, until one day, that all changed. The mundane life she's always known is ripped right out of her hands when the only home she's ever known is blown up, killing the only parent she has left. Suddenly, Serenity is thrown into this crazy action-packed life she never signed up for. But whether she signed up for it or not, she doesn't exactly have a choice anymore- because it's either kill or be killed. ********** Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. I do not own any media content in this book. Started on: March 30, 2024

"Would you say that no one compares?" She asked, comedy laced in between her words as she found this hilarious. Rolling my eyes, I sighed, "I don't know..." Which was my given answer, because I didn't know. I haven't... been out, much to directly tell. But even then, "It's sick," because, "it's like it could only ever be her." - Areli finds herself doing her best to navigate life as she let everything go, leaving it all in the past for the greater good. But one night changes it all, because Savannah's eyes were always hard to not fall deep into. - BOOK TWO