"Love makes you do stupid things." - Its 1978 and a serial killer and child abductor people seemed to have named "The Grabber" learks through the streets of a Denver suburb. But the constant bickering between Marilyn Kate and Vance Hopper seem to keep some of the towns mind off of it. That is, until Marilyn suddenly goes missing on her way home from school? -

She was always the "funny fat friend" until one summer she stopped chasing people's approval and started focusing on herself. Now the local rapper everybody wants can't stay out her face, and the attention starts drama she never expected

-Gyomei isn't blind here. Y/n was a lovefool. She fell in love too easily-with boys she'd just met, with smiles and fleeting kindness. But every time, rejection followed, and her heart would shut down for five months, mourning in silence. Until one day, it fluttered again-this time, for her kind and gentle history teacher, Gyomei Himejima. He was everything warm, everything good. Until she saw him with another woman. And then came the truth: not just a girlfriend-but a wife. Her heart broke again. Then news spread-Gyomei resigned. Relief. Sadness. Emptiness. Years passed. New city. New apartment. Fresh start. But fate, ever cruel and curious, brought her face-to-face with the past- Gyomei Himejima, her former teacher, now her next-door neighbor. And with him, a small baby. A single father. And her heart began to stir again.

Love was just a four-letter word Misused to entrust the heart of followers But it never meant a damn thing to me Until you came so unexpectedly

1932. Melody Blair has lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi all of her life, stuck in a small cottage on the edge of town. Her father left when she was younger and with her mother recently contracting tuberculosis, Melody is now the sole bread winner for her family. When the tax man knocks on her door asking for more money than she has, Melody realizes she needs another job. While looking for one, she runs into two white men down the road. Businessmen type, and all too interested in a black girl walking down the road late at night by herself. When they give chase, running Melody into the forest near town, she doesn't expect to run into the charming, silver tongued stranger hiding out in the dark woods. And doesn't expect the kind of help he offers, or his interest in her after the deed is done.

She's calm. He's chaos. She stutters when she's nervous. He makes her nervous on purpose. She swore she'd never fall for someone like him. But with every glance, every teasing comment, every time he says her name just to hear her stumble, she starts to wonder if maybe love was never meant to sound perfect. Just honest.

√ 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐤𝐨𝐥 𝐦𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐥𝐝- 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫. 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥- 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭. [𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐲!𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐟𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐜 𝐱 𝐤𝐨𝐥 𝐦𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧]

She's a quiet BBW college girl who mind her business and stay out the way. They was never supposed to cross paths but once they do, danger, and love mixed with the streets. And when you fall for a man like him... there ain't no such thing as safe.

𝘼 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙖 𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮. 𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬 "𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝".

Boba Fett invites his Mandalorian friend Din Djarin to his palace to keep an eye on his slave, Marikka, while he's away. Marikka has other ideas... (This is the first story in the "not just any" series!)