"Some looks say more than words ever could."

ᴛɪʀᴇᴅ ᴏꜰ ꜰᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ ʟɪᴋᴇ ɪ'ᴍ ᴛʀᴀᴘᴘᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴍʏ ᴅᴀᴍɴ ᴍɪɴᴅ, ᴛɪʀᴇᴅ ᴏꜰ ꜰᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ ʟɪᴋᴇ ɪ'ᴍ ᴡʀᴀᴘᴘᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴀ ᴅᴀᴍɴ ʟɪᴇ, ᴛɪʀᴇᴅ ᴏꜰ ꜰᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴍʏ ʟɪꜰᴇ ɪꜱ ᴀ ᴅᴀᴍɴ ɢᴀᴍᴇ, ɴɪɢɢᴀ ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ ᴡᴀɴɴᴀ ᴅɪᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ᴛɪᴍᴇ......

Aaliyah never planned on catching the eye of Leo Ramirez. A quiet, brooding basketball player who looks at her like she's trouble & like he'd burn the whole world for her.

Arabella never meant to get close to someone like him. Warren is reckless, unreadable, and surrounded by rumors that make people run. But the more she's warned to stay away, the more she wants to know why he hides behind those walls...and why he can't seem to stay away from her either. ────୨ৎ──── Warren Reid is a name everyone in town knows, and not for good reasons. He left a student unconscious before disappearing into juvie, and now that he's back, the rumors are worse than ever. With a past that whispers warnings and a reputation that silences rooms, Warren is used to being feared, not understood. He trusts no one, lets no one in, and only keeps two people close. Emotions are weaknesses in his world, and vulnerability has never been an option. Until her. Arabella Winters is the picture of perfection and the last girl anyone would expect to cross paths with someone like Warren. Smart, sweet, and sheltered, she follows every rule her parents set, never once stepping out of line. She's the kind of girl who still believes in good graces, bedtime curfews, and fairy tale endings. But one knock on Warren's door throws her into his world, and nothing is the same after that. Everyone says he's trouble, but Arabella doesn't see the monster they all fear. She sees someone broken, someone hiding wounds no one else bothers to look for. What starts as innocent curiosity soon becomes an intense pull neither of them can resist. She's drawn to the shadows he hides in, and he can't stay away from the light she doesn't even know she carries. Now Arabella has to ask herself: is she helping Warren escape the darkness...or is she just letting it swallow her too?

"I don't know, he's just different."

"𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘪, 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥. 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦."

Kairo is scared his autism will stop him from finding love.

" 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞..."

❞𝙖𝙞𝙣'𝙩 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚... 𝙞 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚.❞

"𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭" - SZA, Low -- Genesis Owens will make sure you know he's not gay. The people at his school would bully him if he was, which he clearly isn't. He would lose all of his friends, be kicked off the basketball team, and people would never let him live it down. But he's obviously not gay. He doesn't mind gay people, he just isn't like them. Not even the new boy at school, Indigo Adams, could make him question his sexuality. I mean...could he? (Oh my god this book so ass🙏)