[2022 WATTYS SHORTLISTED!] [WATTPAD EDITORS' CHOICE] Riley Axford has it all figured out: Temptr, the new app which claims to tell you the identity of your soulmate, is bullshit and its creator, Decker Lord, is single-handedly destroying society as we know it. Riley has first-hand knowledge -- his parents are divorcing because his dad used the app, and his girlfriend, Chloe, is the loudest anti-Temptr activist on the internet. Riley proudly produces her podcast, and feels like they're doing a good thing for the world. But when Decker Lord's son, Noah, enrolls at his school and Riley falls in love with him at first sight, his black and white world becomes full of shades of gray. Soulmates are real, and Riley has found his. Getting in between Decker Lord and his son sets Riley on the path to discovering a deadly secret in the Lord family's past and the sinister truth about Decker Lord's tech empire. ***Top Rank: #1 in bxb***

Dmitri West has always been good at staying afloat. Nothing bothers him, nothing makes him lose his cool - one of the things he's had to learn in order to keep his job as a high school History teacher. When things slowly start to crumble around him, Dmitri tries to remain unbothered, he really does, but things start to spiral out of control, too fast for him to keep up. The tipping point, however? Seeing Tariq Riaz. His ex-boyfriend of two years. - started: october 23rd, 2020. completed: december 31st, 2020.

A matchbox clutched in my fist, I stand and watch my house disappear under billows of black smoke. Flames tear up the walls, licking and slurping like rabid dogs, and smoke pummels into the air like a beacon for the whole town to see. Debris falls like snow as all me and my parents' stuff goes up in flames, crumbs of white ash and black leaves drifting to the ground. Wait. No. I didn't set fire to any leaves. I see it then: that flicker to the left, beyond the melting corrugated iron of my bedroom walls. The bush is on fire. I've caught the bush on fire. ~*~**~*~*~~*~**~~**~*~ After burning down his family home and accidentally starting a bushfire, Pavo flees to the desert. His past looms like a churning black cloud of smoke, figuratively and literally, and the last thing he expects is to form a life-changing friendship with another traveler. He's convinced his life is over, but this traveler shows him another side of life - a tender side - and Pavo realises that maybe he has a life to fight for after all. But will he be able to outrun everything he's done?

When the name Asif Nazari is said, people listen. People turn their heads to see the college drop-out who got lucky with a modelling career, the person who's been living and building his whole life in New York, and hopefully, the new face of Diadem Agency. All everyone wants him to do is go to San Diego and do his job well. All he wants to do is live and be alive. But with the agency working him harder than ever, the constant pressure to be the best he can be, and the slowly unravelling pieces of his brain, it's a whirlwind of chaos. And there's almost no time to fulfill his goal. That is, until he meets Storm Renaldi, who turns his entire world upside down with a smile and two words. - started: january 28th, 2021. completed: june 28th, 2021.

Two childhood best friends. One accidental kiss. A summer that changes everything. *** Felipe Rivera has a problem. Several problems, really; as if his anxiety disorder and his strained relationship with his father weren't enough, he's also been in love with his best friend for as long as he can remember. Now that it's their last summer together before they go to separate colleges and leave the suburb they grew up in behind, he's determined to keep his feelings for Aaron bottled up. However, things quickly move beyond his control, and what was supposed to be a summer like every other turns out to be something that might just put their friendship to the ultimate test. Content warnings for themes of anxiety/mental health issues and recreational drug use

✖ 4th Place in the Monthly Elimination Awards; August 2017 ✖ Highest rank: #38 in Teen Fiction ✖ Highest rank: #1 in coming-out For Pelham Nixon, self-discovery isn't only about coming to terms with his sexual orientation. Driven by fear of facing reality, he has developed issues at acknowledging his feelings, as he is far too deep in his own realm. Reality just has to come and greet him once he decides to step out of his comfort-yet-confining zone, tired of self-condemnation. The universe is simply too vast as it is large, too many secrets behind too many stories. What does he know about his parents, his geek of a best friend, his charismatic girlfriend, or an attractive Hispanic boy whose presence he has just taken notice of? What he knows is that there are still far too many things for him to discover; himself, as well as the people around him. Though, that doesn't mean he has to discover them all by himself ... Copyright © A. Zah 2016

Haphephobia: the fear of being touched. Blake, a second-year Psychology student, hadn't ever heard of such a phobia, until the day he was hired as a guide for Dean, the heir of a rich family. Even though Dean had the appearance and behaviour of a gentleman, he harboured an extremely dark and painful past that left him traumatized. After a rainy night on an empty road, a string of coincidences brings the two together. Blake makes it his goal to help Dean free himself from his past and bring back the happiness he deserves while Dean can't help but be won over by the charismatic guy, who is the only one not to see him as damaged or pitiful. However, when memories are revealed, and the feeling of friendship starts turning into something else, things complicate. Is it possible to let go of your past, to fight for an unlikely future?

Kaspian Velasquez has lived his entire life keeping secrets. Family was never a topic of conversation, and if ever brought up, Kaspian was always as vague as he could be, his only source of unadulterated solace being the library. But when Kaspian runs into Rowan Aldrich - an enigmatic classmate studying in the same high school Kaspian goes to - at the same library, he slowly begins to wonder if life was truly meant to be lived in secrecy, or if he could finally accept his own past. - started: june 1st, 2020. completed: august 8th, 2020.

I have stopped writing this story due to out growing it and just ought right laziness. But I haven't out grown writing. I have made a new account Whopsydoodle And I'll be making new and better quality stories that evolve the Lgbtqia+ community aswell as diverse charaters and plot to make it interesting. Nothing from this book was good and I want to start fresh with a new storie. For something I made when I was 13 it went quite far! I'm surprised. Thank you for the support and I hope the next story is something I'll finish. ⚠WORNING:there will be lemons,strong language,and boyXboy ⚠this is a story when a shy highschooler meets a populer guyHonestly

ONODERA IS A HIGH SCHOOL BOY WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS BEST FRIEND. ONODERA IS AFRAID TO CONFESS TO HIM CAUSE HE THOUGTH THAT TAKANO WILL NEVER TALK TO HIM EVER AGAIN. HI EVERY ONE NICE TO MEET YOU!!! I KNOW THAT I JUST COPY THE NAMES OF THE CHARACTERS IN A YAOI ANIME.CAUSE I CAN'T THINK OF ANY NAME FOR MY CHARACTERS. GOMEN. BUT DON'T MIND THAT AND ENJOY THE STORY..