Love looks different for everyone. For some, love is short or has beauty marks like constellations. For others, love looks mean or talks so fast that their words all tumble together. For Lauren, love looks like a five foot four bartender with a beautiful smile and pants she couldn't wait to get into. Are all love stories supposed to start in a strip club? (( smut warning, 18+ )) HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 in laurmani (07/06/23) #9 in aromantic (11/19/22) #19 in 5H (04/13/23) #2 in intersex (04/08/23) #30 in normani (04/13/23) #1 in normanihamilton (05/06/23) © Copyright, All Rights Reserved by resilientflower, 2022-2025.

This is a story that I originally posted onto quizilla.com and since my friend told me about Wattpad I'm going to post it to Wattpad now. I edited some parts of it and I hope people on here like it. A lot of people on quizilla do. The story is basically about two girls named Roxy and Julie who were brought together by fate. Once is an in the closet lesbian and the other is out and proud. Their personalities are polar opposites but somehow they fall deeply in love each other. But their love is put through test after test when trying to gain acceptance from friends, family and classmates.

Lauren is a washed up rock artist. She's got bills to the ceiling and no inspiration. Her A&R Candece gives her an ultimatum. Revive her career by collaborating with one of r&b's up and coming stars, or watch her carefully constructed musical career slip through her fingers. Here, enters Normani Kordei. She's sexy, southern, sweet, and talented, yet not quite at the top. But she has promise. She knows her breakthrough moment could be coming, but she needs the cherry on top to really solidify her career. That cherry turns out to be the washed up but talented and beautiful Lauren Jauregui. Opposites do attract, but most love stories don't factor in the music industry. Wrought with lies, sex, power, and grit, an incredibly fierce love might just be enough to push these two to the top.

In the end, Dinah knew she'd rather hold Lauren like this for as long as she could than risk it all on something so breakable. Lauren was worth too much to be careless with. As Lauren murmured something unintelligible against her neck, Dinah realized that recklessness was for people with nothing to lose. And Lauren was the opposite of nothing.

When apathy works its way into the heart of someone who was once so loving, they become a shell of who they used to be. In Normani's case, the mirror between her past and future self was broken into shards that felt too difficult to piece back together. But so god help her, was she determined to try. She just wished the people in her life would give her a chance. HIGHEST RANKINGS: #4 in norminah (06/12/23) © Copyright, All Rights Reserved by resilientflower, 2021-2025.

Harry Styles, the brooding and intolerable tattoo parlour owner, meets River. A girl utterly oblivious to his way of the world with a curious heart determined to understand the extent of his nefarious ways. River comes to realize that Harry is hiding something much deeper than ever expected, only once those secrets are ultimately revealed, it's too late to turn back. -- *18+ // Story Contains Mature and Explicit Content*