Love lingers like ink pressed deep into skin, a mark you can't wash away, an echo that hums beneath every breath. When rain brings Milo into Sakani's shop one night, two worlds collide: the stillness of someone who's learned to guard his heart, and the restless fire of someone desperate to be truly seen. ENJOY!!

Kyla was a young girl who grew up on the wrong side of Georgia. She was born and raised in ATL. She met her friends all in elementary school. There lives become rockier and funnier as it went on. Would they still be friends in the end? Read to find out!

"What's it gonna take for you to know you're the only one that I want around? What's it gonna take for you to know you're the only one to hold me down? Girl, you don't know, that I know you should know Cause you don't know, you don't know, you don't know" A Bestfriend love storyy

𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑯𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒅. 𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅. Gia thought she had it all-love, loyalty, and a future with the man she trusted most. But when betrayal slices deeper than any blade, and the truth about Zayden unravels piece by bloody piece, Gia doesn't break. She plots. With a baby on her hip and vengeance in her heart, Gia steps into a dangerous game of lies, lust, and power. Secrets burn. Loyalties shift. And when old flames reignite with deadly intentions, everyone's playing for keeps. 𝑯𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒅. 𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒑𝒂𝒚. A story of love turned lethal, obsession gone wild, and a woman who refuses to die quiet. 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦. 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺-𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭.

"She never asked to be chosen second. He never asked to love soft." Ka'Lani Simone Harris spent her whole life watching boys pick her brownskin twin, Imani, first. Every text, every glance, every "you cute but..." - it all ended the same. But when Juelz Amir Thompson steps into her world - quiet, tattooed, hood-smart, and realer than any man she's known - he flips her entire mindset. Only... Ka'Lani ain't sure if he really sees her, or just another shadow of her sister. Juelz got demons. A past that moves quiet but dangerous. And love? That shit was never part of the plan. But Ka'Lani pulls something out of him nobody's ever touched - not his exes, not his block, not even his blood. Now the city watching. Girls throwing shade. Secrets resurfacing. And his enemies? They don't like seeing him soft. But love like this? Ain't soft. It's bold. It's bruised. And it refuses to be background. This ain't no fairytale. This is hood love

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"Woah, slow down. What?" I heard him say and I furrowed my eyebrows, looking up. "Ma.." He trailed off and I already knew it was his mother. "That has nothing to do with you." He said and I sat up because I could hear him getting angry. "What's wrong?" I asked him and he put his phone on speaker. "I can't believe you got that little.." She trailed off, too angry to even get her words out. "..whore pregnant, Sage." "And then the little slut gets an abortion, I hope she knows that she will rot in hell." She said and my heart dropped. He hung up the phone on her before she could say anything else. "Baby." He looked at me as I bit my lip, standing to my feet. "Olive." He stood to his feet as well. I quickly walked to the bathroom and closed the door behind me before Sage could catch me. I broke down crying as he stood on the other side of the door. "Babygirl, I love you." "I love you too." I told him, breathing heavily. "Don't cry, love. Nothing she says matters, she's just mad because I love you so much and there's nothing she can say to change that." "Open the door for me please?" I wiped my face before I slowly opened the door for him. "I'm done with her." He said, shaking his head. He pulled me to him, wrapping his arms around my waist as he shoved his head into my neck. "Until she can learn to respect you as my lady, she's out of our life."

GrowToEvolve | 01 ______________________________________ - How will the Wests' second chapter go? Previously known as "Undercover Wests".