Love is a Drug.

Skai was the kind of person that did reckless things just to be able to say that she had done them. I was the kind of person who liked to stay at home, and just read about people like Skai. Adventure, recklessness, it was never really my thing. But, Skai was different, and I was intrigued. I never really understood how much I had been missing until I met her. This is a story about my newfound, crazy, reckless, life. And a story about the girl that dragged me through it.

❝Okay, I'm going to gloss over the fact that you didn't deny being Cyrus's boyfriend, because did TJ Kippen just apologise to me?❞ Cyrus Goodman always sees the best in people. Including TJ Kippen, the enemy of his best friend, who is so used to being feared and labelled a jerk that he can't understand the kindness Cyrus shows him. He feels almost unworthy of being Cyrus's friend and takes it upon himself to be better. He wants to impress Cyrus. And after receiving life-altering advice from his mother, TJ discovers why this is. [Completed with 45,500+ words]

"He squeezed his eyes shut for a moment, very convinced that he was just seeing things, but when he opened them again the scene hadn't changed. He was still in his bedroom, looking at his neighbour's house, and 𝘛𝘑 𝘒𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯 was still sitting cross-legged on the driveway, holding chalk in his hand and admiring the pictures he had very 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 just drawn." ~ Or the one where Cyrus discovers that there's more to TJ Kippen than he previously thought. An unlikely friendship forms between them, only for pesky feelings to become involved.

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When Cyrus finds a playlist on TJ's desktop full of old love songs, he realizes that TJ has never been a scary basketball guy but rather a huge sap. TJ just wished Cyrus could realize that all of those songs remind him of a certain boy who likes chocolate chocolate chip muffins without telling him directly. With insecurities and fears almost set in stone, it's hard for TJ to admit that he has a heart aching crush on Cyrus who is trying to avoid just that. Of course, it doesn't seem like both of them are trying to get over each other when they're always together.