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Sometimes people sneak on you and suddenly you fail to remember how you ever lived without them. Causing the only road to heaven to be a consistent of moving on but not necessarily forgetting them. While overthinking sucks, everyone is familiar with its cruelty. Pessimism is always just the cherry on top of it all. With Octavia Marshall, she indeed had that cherry on top, aside with a saying she believed in...all promises are meant to be broken. Black Rodriguez, a not so ordinary guy with a troubled past, a generally bad relationship with life. Intertwining himself with the wrong business, his old mistakes lead him to a secret agreement that turns into more than that, a strange pull between two love incapable souls. Heartbreak, regret, misery, and pain interfere. Will she be able to handle the secrets behind those grey orbs? Will that saying she goes by in fact turn out real or not? 𝘛𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 ~ 𝘐 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶. ---------------------- [UNDERGOING MAJOR GRAMMATICAL/PLOT EDITING] Cover made by the talented @majesticzayn Started- 14 october 2020 Ended- 9 may 2021 word count- 104,093

**FAIR WARNING: YOU WILL HAVE TO BE PATIENT WITH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, BUT IT IS THERE, AND WORTH THE READ. IF YOU ARE OVERLY SENSITIVE, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK* Logan Pierce and Noah Locke are sworn enemies. Both at the top of their class, holding themselves to the highest standards; both captains of their volleyball teams, Logan as the girls captain, Noah as the boys; and both constantly playing seemingly harmless pranks to get back at one another. Or, at least, they're usually harmless... If one thing is true, Noah Locke and Logan Pierce are not friends. But does that mean they could never be friends? Or transcend their title as enemies? Logan might take things too far sometimes, but there's a reason behind the angry front she puts on, and in order to get behind it, someone needs to show her that there's more to life than being the best at everything. Cue Noah Locke. When the two volleyball teams are sent away to a team bonding camp for a week over Fall break, Logan and Noah must learn to get along for the sake of their teams. Partnered up and made to do activities together and bond, the goal is for Noah and Logan to stop this ongoing feud. And when something happens at the bonding camp that brings Logan's vulnerable side up to bat, Noah is the one who has to bring her back. While Logan and Noah explore something other than hatred for one another, there are secrets and people who could be working in toll to bring them apart. But will they be able to transcend those factors and stop fighting for once? Or were they destined to be enemies forever? "Better Than You" challenges the idea that enemies have to stay enemies forever, and proves that if you don't run away from love, you may just find where you were meant to be.

Carter Rome Stone is the golden boy of Louisiana State University, as well as the captain of the college football team. He has only one goal: to secure his name in the NFL draft. He has everything one could wish for, both on and off the field: sharp 4.0 GPA, a future held in the football league, the moneys and the girls. He has trouble committing himself to one girl, no strings attached, no relationships that could get in the way to get drafted after graduation. Fiercely independent, feisty and curious, Laura Elen Vittorini is an Italian girl who has earned the scholarship to study and complete her final university year in the US. She busted her ass off to get where she is at, to make herself and her family proud. Trying to stay afloat in between studying and her new life with her roommates, her days seem to be already pretty busy. But what happens when life kicks in and adds more fun and rumor to it? Even if it means to prove the complete opposite, Elle is committed to stay under the radar, which also means not messing with the heartthrob quarterback. Needless to say, things are complicated and timing seems to mess with the two and continues to pull them together, closer and closer. When the notorious golden boy of the college meets two foreign blue eyes, there will be sparks or flames? And when the lines are crossed and the rules are broken, will she be able to keep the college womanizer in his place without stepping on it? When you give your heart away will it return in pieces or full? Because everyone deserves to be with someone who shouts their love for you. This is a dual point of view story.

𝓞𝓷𝓮 𝓵𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰. Rose Jacobs has been unlucky in love and in life. Wracked with grief and loneliness after a tragic accident, Rose has spent the last three years of her life attempting to regain some form of normalcy. Her normalcy? Running a used bookstore owned by her parents, full of classic literature. Romance? What's that? The only romance in her life at the moment includes rereading the fictional romance filled between the pages of her favorite books in the store. Oh, and her beloved golden retriever, Ginger. With the way her life has turned out, she couldn't have predicted the turn of events that would unfold after a box of classic books is brought into her store by a stranger looking to make a quick buck. Finding hidden love letters throughout each book brought in, Rose delves into the world and love life of Jo Rutherford--the books' original owner, who happened to write love letters to her future husband in the 1940s. Feeling lonely, but inspired by the letters, Rose begins her journey of creating her own letters to someone she doesn't believe exists. Nothing could prepare her for the excitement her boring love life was about to get when River Ellison, a handsome, arrogant and persistent man comes into her bookstore only mere hours after writing her first letter. In a journey of self-discovery and growth, Rose maneuvers through the hardships of romance and love while still attempting to piece herself back together after her life was turned upside down three years ago. Highest Ranking: #93 Chicklit (out of 32.5k stories!)

Luna Don't date a hockey player. Simple enough, right? Or at least, that's what I thought when I promised my father I would never date anyone from his team. Then I was assigned to tutor Vaughn Banks, LSU's broody and mysterious right winger. Vaughn is ultra-hot, ultra-tattooed-and ultra-forbidden. Problem is, he's also insanely funny, a secret softy, and the first guy who's been patient enough to break down the ten-foot walls around my heart. We tell everyone we're just friends, but we both know it's a lie. Between our stolen glances and secret sleepovers, it's only a matter of time before everyone else finds out, too. Vaughn When I learn that the gorgeous brunette I keep seeing around campus is Coach Ward's daughter, I make a point to stay away. Her father knows a few too many of my past sins, and the last thing he'd want is a guy with an arrest record dating his only daughter. My strategy works... until I start flunking calc, and Luna is assigned as my tutor. I sit across from her in the library three days per week, pretending I'm not falling for her like I've never fallen before. But when one moment of weakness changes everything, there's no more pretending-and there's no going back. Landing in the penalty box is the least of my worries. I have everything on the line, and this is a shot I can't afford to miss.

❝why enter a relationship that you know will eventually end? but what if it doesn't, what's if it lasts forever?❞ Charlotte moved to NYC once she was accepted into her dream school, Tisch, and her dream of becoming a dancer is getting closer with every step she gives, with her bubbly personality she radiates light in every room she enters and doesn't have problems connecting with people and bringing out the best of them. Until him. Kalen, he might not seem like it but he is closed off, heartbreak after heartbreak, he doesn't believe in love anymore, that's until on his sophomore year at NYU, he gets partnered with a green eyed girl that might make his views of live and life give a full 180.

Quarterback to the Columbia Lions football team, Grayson Hart, is unable to play until he raises his grade in economics. He's in desperate need of help. Brielle Kingsley steps in and decides to tutor him. World's collide and new developed feelings happen, something they both have never felt before. -Texting story- *Some chapters will be written and none of the pictures in the story are mine*

Demi Reyes has spent the better part of the last three years studying under the palm trees in sunny California at UCLA. Moving miles away from home was far from what she expected, but it's what worked at that moment in time. Finally embarking on her final year of college she finds herself back home in Columbus, Ohio. Tyson Miller is the Ohio State, Star-Studded Quarterback. A ladies man with a ridiculously attractive charm. Leaves the them always wanting to come back for more. With the impending start to the most crucial season of his college career, he knows this is his last chance to impress coaches and GM's before the draft and combine. • E X T E N D E D D E S C R I P T I O N •

The heart wants what it wants. McKenna can't seem to escape the renown that follows her last name wherever she goes, especially at Eastwood University her brother's alma mater. Only ever focused on one goal during the past three years: To get into Harvard law. Now as a junior at Eastwood University everything is about to change because the one person she's been avoiding-hating for the past three years has just become avoidable no more. Asher is a winner, and no one can deny it, he's the captain of the championship-winning football team, a born leader, and the predicted 1st draft pick for the NFL. People always ask what his secret to winning is and he always says the expected, hard work. But Asher's secret to winning is something more complicated. Hatred. And it so happens that McKenna Peterson is at the center of it. After a one-night-stand that shatters the invisible wall between the two rivals, McKenna and Asher grasp that hating each other is useless when they're undeniably attracted to each other, after all, there's always a thin line between love and hate. Determined to get rid of each other's presence once and for all, a deal is struck and an agreement is made. It doesn't take long for McKenna and Asher to realize that hatred and attraction, passion and anger, are more similar than they ever thought, can the past ever be just the past and the future lead to something more? McKenna & Asher Book 1 in The College Series: Eastwood I *This Book Contains Mature Content*