{book 2} ✓ - ❝ I'm tired of pity, of everyone looking at me like "poor Zayn, infatuated with his best mates's girl". I know it's not okay and if it were so easy to forget about her I would've done it already. It's not. But I just need time, not people to pity me and force me to move on. Why can't they understand that? I just need time and someone to understand. ❞

What would you do if you lost everything that ever mattered to you? When Phoebe Miller loses her family in a car crash, her answer is to simply close in on herself. She is too scared to get close to someone new, due to the fear of losing someone else important to her. Plagued by depression, harrowing nightmares and full of guilt, she pushes away the very people who may be able to help her through. Only one handsome and charming teacher is able to break down her wall of defences. But can their love survive, or is their forbidden relationship simply not meant to be?

Do you believe in fate? Kayleigh Brown does. She believes that everything happens for a reason, that our lives are mapped out for us before were even born. She believes in fate so much that when she meets the incredible guy at the bar, she knows it’s not meant to be. This guy can't be meant for her because he's on his stag night. He’s promising himself to another woman, taking himself off the market and committing to someone else. Fate was just messing with her this time; if he was the one she was meant to be with then there would be some signs to show that. He wouldn’t be that easy to cut out of her life. But even when the signs start appearing, Kayleigh chooses to ignore them, going against everything she’s ever believed in her life. Instead, she tells herself that fate is what you make it, fate is about choices, and she chooses not to be with him. But is it really going to be that easy?

Terrorized by the meathead jock Zayn, Jessica, a seasoned muscian and dancer, spent the year wishing it would end faster than it started. She stayed with her close knit crowd of two, Harry and Niall. They all spent their days running from Zayn who is crazy for Jessica. Until new student, Louis came along, a cute, soft-spoken boy who falls a little too hard for strong-willed, wishy-washy Jessica. Zayn finds out that his so called "girl" would rather hang with a complete loser than himself. Soon Harry and Niall are pushed to the bottom of his hitlist and Lou is moved to the top. Also, in the midst of this madness, a school project, that not only makes you have PARTNERS but you also have to DANCE. "You don't have to tell anyone...it could be our little secret."

After the devastating death of her first and only love, Niall Horan, Mitch doesn't know what to do with herself anymore. She records down her day in letter form and mails them to Nialls' flat. It was a car aimed for her that killed him, now, what's going to happen? Will she be able to live with the guilt or cave in?

When Zayn Malik went to go visit Annabelle Gossamer an eighteen year old girl dying with breast cancer, he felt drawn to her in way that made him come back for more. He thought they were just harmless visit and everyone else thought so, too and thought he was being nice to the dying girl. Zayn was thinking the same. I'm just being nice, he tried to convince himself. He expected to like her and care for her somewhat--what he didn't expect was to fall in love with her. Meet Annabelle Gossamer. She was your average girl--sort of. Her mother and her grandmother had both died of breast cancer before her and she spent her whole life waiting in fear that she would get it too. She hoped the cancer gene would skip her, but unfortunately it didn't. She never did get a sweet sixteen because she spent the past two years in the hospital battling this disease. When the Make-a-Wish foundation decides to grant her a wish, she only wants one big thing and one small thing. She wished for her hospital bills to be taken care so her father won't be in debt if she dies and she'd always wanted to meet One Direction. One of the members takes keen interest in her visits more than he has to. Annabelle doesn't mind--she'd always liked Zayn Malik and thought he was the cutest in the band. But that's all it was--like. She didn't expect to fall in love.

Rhiannon Crookes. A quiet country girl from a small town in England who spends her life hiding behind a fake smile. Her life has been a rollercoaster; full of surprises, and not the good kind. Abandoned by her family at a young age, and the physical and emotional abuse from her boyfriend Chris taking a turn for the worse, she feels trapped, with no way out. Zayn Malik. A fifth of the world famous phenomenon One Direction, the teen heart throb spends his life in the public eye, his every move watched. He has the perfect life; one that many would only dream for. But when both lives collide, and two completely different people fall in love, will things change for the better or for the worse? "If I was to say one thing to someone, it would be not to take life with the one you love for granted, because another day with them is never promised; unfortunately for me, I had to figure it out the hardest way of all."