Love is easy in the beginning. It's later-after the routines settle, after the silence lingers too long, after words start to hurt more than they should-that things begin to crack. You and Clay have been together long enough to feel the shift. The distance. The conversations that don't quite land. The argument that finally forces everything into the open and leaves you wondering whether love is enough to fix what's breaking. This isn't about falling in love. It's about holding on when it starts to hurt-and deciding whether you fight for each other, or let go. Details Contains mature themes Dream x Reader (Y/N) Angst • emotional conflict • NSFW elements Second Book in the "He Is" Duology. It is highly recommended to read the first book before continuing to this one.

You go live like any other night-same stream, same chat, same expectations. Then a raid changes everything. What starts as a moment on stream doesn't end when you log off. A DM follows. Then another. Conversations stretch longer, feelings show up sooner than planned, and suddenly something real is taking shape faster than either of you anticipated. This isn't a story about waiting or wondering what if. It's about connection, timing, and letting things happen when they feel right. Details Contains mature themes Dream x Reader (Y/N) Fast-paced / not a slow burn

I have found an ideal life. I have a loving husband, no work and no danger. This is exactly what I wanted when I ran away and changed my identity. But I just didn't think that I would have a thirst to be in danger. Next to him. Especially next to him. And sometimes our desires come back into our lives with a nasty cry, "I'm back from your past." I am crazy because I knew that he will find me and I love it.

❝ matilda styles, will you be my valentine? (please reject me so i can move on) ❞ ──── IN WHICH christopher sturniolo falls for nepo baby or... IN WHICH matilda styles is his so-called celebrity crush ──── © sillygoosesuz, 2024

"I am standing in the ashes of whom I used to be." cover by: chishiyas_wifeyss

come on, baby, don't you hurt me anymore, i'm not the same way that i was before. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇. . . 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲 has spent as long as she can remember hopelessly pining over 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬, one of her older brothers dearest friends. her crush is nothing but a stupid, life-consuming pointless one, seeing as chris is one of their towns biggest players. he has a new girl on his arm every week, it seems, blissfully unaware of how it breaks destiny's heart more and more every time. just as she decides that it's time to finally get her life together and move on, he has an epiphany. he, of course, begins the realization that it's been her all along the longer that he has to watch her pursue someone else. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❝ you've ruined me, des. your lips won't leave my head. ❞ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💌 DISCONTINUED CHRIS STURN X FEM!OC © louis-core published 2023! mature themes + strong language

summer's in the air, and baby, 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧's in your eyes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇. . . 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐞 has spent all of her life hating the noisy boy who lives across from her, the biggest pain in her ass to ever exist: 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭. unfortunately, for her, she made the biggest mistake of her life at the very start of summer. she managed to end up in his bed, and didn't expect the consequences to come so soon when her best friend suddenly reveals that she's dating his brother and her entire world is flipped. the man in focus at the center of this mess? matt. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❝ what are you gonna do? write a song about me? ❞ ❝ don't push it, mason. ❞ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💌 DISCONTINUED MATT STURN X FEM!OC © louis-core published 2023! mature themes + strong language

you gave me all your love, and all i gave you was 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇. . . 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 was once sure of everything: his life, his dreams, his relationship with his family, youtube, and most importantly, the love of his life. it was when the leaves began to fall off the trees that doubt first filled his mind, and by december, he had lost sight of what truly meant the most to him. months after committing his greatest regret ever, he is forced to watch the girl he unfortunately let fall from his grip so easily seek comfort in none other than his very own sworn nemesis since freshman year. after putting up with far too many snarky remarks and smug smirks sent his way, chris decides that it's time to steal back what he's lost. he will do whatever it takes to get his first love 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 back into his arms, even if it means trying 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧, and 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❝ we're never going to be fully done, clementine. ❞ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💌 DISCONTINUED CHRIS STURN X FEM!OC © louis-core republished 2024! mature themes + strong language

DISCONTINUED AS OF NOW ❝ why are you laughing? we're literally fucked. ❞ ❝ it's just funny how you thought we wouldn't get caught. ❞ a three-time grammy winner and a rising football star. their paths were never supposed to intertwine. especially considering the fact that the last time they were in the same place at the same time, they didn't even make eye contact. chris had always had a crush on america's sweetheart. who didn't? lucky for chris though, his social media post from months prior came to haunt him in the best way possible. an interview where he shamelessly talks about his crush goes viral and odessa sees it. alessia, totally over her ex, decides to finally go for someone more her type, and slides into chris' dms. as their online banter turns into something more, they have to figure out how to handle each other, fame, and their own dreams. unfortunately, their reputations just complicate things a whole lot more. ❝ big reputation, big reputation ooh, you and me, we'd be a big conversation ❞ STARTED 10 / 31 / 2023. CHRIS STURN X FEMOC

❝ what is this? every time we fight are we just gonna kiss and make up? ❞ ❝ you know i can't focus on anything besides your lips, z. ❞ zara and matt have been on-again/off-again ever since freshman year year of college. most of their time is spent in between sheets, but that's only because ucla hockey star matt refuses to let zara get emotionally attached. he doesn't commit and zara knows that. because of this, when zara, tired of the draining repetitive cycle, decides to call things off with matt for good, matt thinks she's bluffing. they always come back to each other. they were friends first anyway. however, he is in for a real treat when he discovers that zara has moved on and is now in a relationship with someone else. matt doesn't think zara has real feelings for the guy. not after that 'i love you' he heard her whisper in his ear one drunken night. matt is thinking she should end it. you know, just so she doesn't hurt the poor guy. ❝ did you agree we should let it be? and did you agree it's a must? let's call the whole thing off we just have had enough of us ❞ STARTED 12 / 26 / 2023. MATT STURN X FEMOC