When Cory's father suddenly dies his entire perfect world is torn apart. Gone is the loving mother, doting sister, lovely house, and the huge allowance. In stead Cory needs to deal with the bank auctioning off the home he gave his first steps in, a illness that befalls his little sister, and the depression that's eating his mother alive. Just as it can't get any worse, Patrick with the golden-brown eyes, the infectious laugh, and the rich life finally shows interest in Cory. The thing that Cory believed would have made his once almost-perfect world completely perfect now becomes his biggest fear as he tries to keep his new life a secret. With juggling his depression, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm; Cory just doesn't know if the boy with the infectious laugh has a place in his life anymore. "Out in the Wind" is not just the story of a teen who is forced to grow up sooner than any kid should. It is also a real story that happens to lots of people around the world on the daily. This is a story full of tears, sadness, hope, loss, faith, and love. Note: This story contains affection between two male characters. If that in any way offends you, please refrain from reading. This story may also have triggers for depression, self-harm, and suicide.

[COMPLETED] For seven years, Monty has lived across the street from Grayson Rogers. In all those years, they've only talked a handful of times. There's a lot of things Monty knows about Grayson Rogers, and even more he doesn't know. Until one party on a Friday night, Monty is dared to kiss Grayson. cover by: @meha-k

COMPLETED [boyxboy] Carson Hughes is a bright light. Vinny Taylor is an enigma. ** After spending his summer away as a camp counselor, Carson Hughes comes back to his home town for his senior year. Things seem to be just as he left them until he finds out his best friend's brother came out of the closet and cut everybody out of his life. Kind and caring Carson can't help but want to understand this new Vinny. Vinny Taylor is falling, constantly going down and feeling like there's no end. His summer leaves him changed forever. After coming out and alienating himself, he spends most days locked away in his room until Carson comes back to town. Vinny's a mystery yet to be figured out. And Carson is up to the task. WARNING: Some of the content in this book may be triggering for some readers. Chapters with triggering content will have trigger warnings at the top with what the triggering content is. There will not be any graphic or detailed scenes of traumatic or triggering experiences. ~180k words

Forced to share his bed with an attractive stranger, Ash Jamieson suddenly finds himself confronted with feelings he thought he'd repressed. ***** Riddled with adolescent angst, lavished with profanity, and adorned with more cheese than your favourite take-out pizza, Top and Tail chronicles the life of Ash Jamieson as he haphazardly navigates his way through malicious schoolmates, whackjob teachers, disillusioned parents, imbecilic athletes, audacious girls, and of course, his most pressing problem: the subdued pretty-boy that has suddenly invaded every aspect of his life. Being a teenager is hard, ok? ***** Top and Tail is posted exclusively on Wattpad! If you're reading this elsewhere, you're reading an unedited, stolen version where illegal sites profit off my work :( The official version is FREE to read at it's home on Wattpad! [Featured in Teen Fiction 2016] [Completed 2011]

Andrew is a spoiled only child who attends Whitewater Preparatory School with his girlfriend Keanu. His parents focus all their attention on their one an only son trying their best to make him perfect. Leo is a rebellious misfit who attends a local high school despite having enough money to attend Whitewater with his sister Keanu. Keanu forces her brother Leo and boyfriend Andrew to spend more time together as their families become closer in hopes that it'll straighten Leo out. However, the opposite seems to happen. - Started: January 30, 2019 Finished: August 28, 2019

Elijah Rosen, an introverted seventeen year old with a love for football, sneaks out almost every night to get away from the problems he faces during the day. He feels like his anxiety is taking over his life, and the only place he can go to escape it is the pitch black night right outside his window where he can be alone and let his thoughts run wild. But after he finds Adam Chang sitting at the bottom of an empty pool in the early hours of the morning with puffy red eyes and bruised hands, he begins to find comfort in something other than the dark. Only, Adam has a few problems of his own. And with pressure coming from his family, his friends, his school, and his own mind, Elijah isn't sure how he'll make it through the year. ------- "I think if you weren't here, I wouldn't be okay. I'd..." I trailed off, not wanting to say the words that we both knew were true. "Hey," he said softly, "I'm just glad I'm here, then." He started to let go of me, but I wrapped my arms around his neck and hugged him like I never had anybody else before. "I'm glad you are too." (featured by FreeTheLGBT: 1/13/2022)

Gage Cilleti has just begun his junior year of high school, and is becoming more and more involved in his school's activities, considering he'd been playing baseball since he was just seven-years-old. Elijah McCay has just dropped out of school, due to just having lost his mother. While becoming endorsed into an internalized depression, he sees the sweet and athletic sixteen-year-old, Gage Cilleti, who catches his sad eyes in an almost instant. 2020 - All Rights Reserved @LunaThinks

Lafayette was the school's only out kid. Then Eden came along. Fay was all confidence, known for his flawless acting and effeminate clothing. He didn't bow down to anyone, and he was incredibly skilled at becoming friends with anyone he wanted to. Eden was all pretend confidence. On the inside, he was a calloused heart decorated by life-threateningly deep scars. But he never says a word. Not until Fay becomes a large part in his life, trying to teach him what it means to heal. •O•O• Trigger Warning: abuse, disordered eating, mental illnesses, rape, and self-harm. Rated mature for the above. Started: 5 . 3 . 20 Finished: 8 . 4 . 20

Everything in Jules Hatcher's life is going well: he has a girlfriend, a job and pretty decent grades. That is until he (literally) stumbles into Hunter Adams, the bad boy and player that everyone knows. Soon Hunter has managed to turn Jules' entire world upside down- and make him discover a side of himself, that Jules never knew of. And it all started with that damn hoodie. Trigger warning: this story includes depictions of homophobia and mentions of suicide.

When Lalo moves to Spain to escape the blurry faced ghosts of his past life in America, he finds solitude in an empty mansion, abandoned for the past twenty five years. With a six month contract as a gardener, he adapts to a life of lavender lemonade, vibrant flowers, and homemade raspberry jam. It's not long before he's joined by the buyers' son, Rory, desperately running away from a future in London. Together, they forge a bond amongst the seclusion of the countryside. But their new paradise is threatened, not only by the supposed spirits that walk the halls of the haunted manor, but by a face from Lalo's past, determined to track him down.