Alex had enough. Enough of everything. So he decided to run away from his broken past in Britain, and on his way to a different country, he accidentaly met his light in the dark. "And...what's even your name?" the boy asked. "Uh-I'm-I'm Alex. Alex Gaskarth." he quietly stuttered and shifted a bit, then carefully looked up at the boy with glossy eyes. "Well I'm Jack, Jack Barakat. And I'm sticking with you whether you like it or not."

{Can be triggering} Alex isn't happy with his life, one day he decides he'd had enough and attempts suicide, in a panic his parents take him the hospital and manage to save his life. When he wakes up he's told his parents have signed him into a mental ward, as he's walking around he meets a strange boy named Jack. After getting to know him he wonders why he's here, little does he know he's even worse off than he is.

"It's okay, Jack" he whispered quickly, trying to offer some comfort. He'll never know how much I appreciate that from him. He'll never know. I can't ever let him know, and I can't let him get any closer to me. I have to let him go, and that thought alone makes me want to tear myself apart. *** Jack Barakat lived a simple life, with a simple schedule to go along with it, until he met a particularly destructive boy. Head over heels, he is desperate to be enough, resulting in a painfully escalating eating disorder that has him sent to the Teen Psychiatric ward of Valley Springs hospital, where he will meet Alex Gaskarth a year later. Alex, a self proclaimed walking disaster, puts it on himself to help Jack better himself so he can be released. Will his attempt to help make or break Jack? Is the eating disorder Jacks only problem? And is their relationship bound to become more? (Trigger warnings listed on intro chapter)

- In which a lonely kid named Alex who is only slightly obsessed with how colorful the whole planet is meets a lonely kid named Jack who has stopped obsessing over anything and spends his days desperately seeking someone to fill an empty space in his life. "Just keep your eyes open." [Named after the album "Eyes Open" by Snow Patrol]

"damn it's such a shame that we built a wreck out of me" - boy in the hospital for a heart condition meets girl in the hospital for being beat up after concert -

"I want to tell you something." She said. "Yes?" "I've heard that you're a huge child..." "I am." "Well you're not alone anymore. I'm just like you. And that's not the only way." I knew exactly what she meant too. It meant she cuts just like me. She talks down about herself just like me. She suffers from depression just like me. She suffers from severe panic attacks just like me. She wants to be loves and wanted just like me. And right then and there I knew that I needed her in my life. "What's your name?" I asked. "Trinity. Trinity Rose Meddles."

Ash Collins and Alex and his friends are complete opposites. After joining an exchange program of her school in Germany, she is sent to Dulaney High School. Her host family is the one and only Gaskarth family. How will Ash, a girl who's never done anything daring or against the rules, deal with the one and only Alex Gaskarth, Jack Barakat, Rian Dawson, and Zack Merrick? Will she change her norms and be as ruthless as them, or will she make them become more sensible? All Ash knows is that she is slowly being driven crazy. Trigger Warnings where necessary.

Alice Barakat, Jack Barakat's "little" sister by an hour, moves back in with Jack and her mom when she finds out that her dad is remarrying her mom. Jack and Alice have never met before, only when they were first born. Alice finds out how good of a brother Jack is, and how amazing his band All Time Low is. She also starts having some major feelings for his best friend, Alex Gaskarth, the singer of the band. *I don't own All Time Low, sadly... Ps, I suck at summaries, sorry. Just read it, it's a good story.

⚠ MENTIONS OF DARK SUBJECTS, BLOOD, DEPRESSING THOUGHTS, DEATH ⚠ Don't judge I'm an edgy teen 💀 A young woman, Christine Winters, is a very outstanding girl in her school. Or so do the 4 specific guys think. She has to run every morning to get away from their grip. Until someone different hops in. Will he be any help? He may be, but whose side is he on? Will he just end up as another of The Girl's enemies, or will he pull her out of her never ending nightmares? We'll see...