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❝You are a girl.❞ He said after an agonizingly long silence while I stood helplessly in front of him, shaking. This situation was too overwhelming for me. ❝Uh... Does that bother you?❞ I stuttered and looked at him with genuine curiosity. ❝Yes. Maybe a little too much.❞ Olivia Thompson is living her extremely dull and boring life when she comes across an opportunity that changes everything. Her school's Inconsiderate coaches cut off the girls' soccer team. The only option left for her to pursue her dreams and to prove to everyone that girls can play as efficiently as boys is by secretly taking her identical twin brother's scholarship. Going undercover as her identical twin brother in an all-boys school has turned her life upside down. A simple decision changes her life into a tremendous mess of unsolved mysteries revolving around her irresistible but infuriating roommate. #160 in teen fiction

Kayla is a free spirited and sarcastic young girl who is unaware of the looming danger following her. She is about to go to college to live her dreams. Being a lawyer is all she and her father wants. She will study hard and ace the test. She will become the best lawyer and then a Judge just like her father. Easy plan. Jacob a is a hardworking young man, working under his father's security firm. Working as an undercover pre-law student is the last thing he wants. For him this bodyguard assignment is just a glorified babysitting job. But still, he will ace it and claim his position as his father's right hand man. Easy plan. **** "Now will you please leave me alone so that I can wash that man's hand off me. And stop touching me, I am dirty-" At that exact moment Jacob cut my ramblings short by smashing his lips on mine. My body froze as soon as I felt his warm and soft lips on mine. He used my shocked state and with a swift motion pulled me against him. "You can never be dirty." ***** What will happen when their not so easy plans will clash with each other?? Will Jacob be able to protect Kayla from the looming danger?? Read to find out.!!

When a down-on-her-luck music producer teams up with the lead singer of the hottest pop punk band in the world, the music (& chemistry) begins to writes itself... *** Twenty-one year old Fallon Reese-Lee has one more summer to make her struggling career as a music producer work. But being holed up in the tiny island of Coral Cove doesn't exactly help matters; instead of making connections and sucking up to industry people in LA where she's supposed to be, she's stuck helping her college-dropout brother hide from the wrath of her parents in their beach house. Enter The Destructors, the most popular pop punk band in the world. Having just freshly moved into the Airbnb next door to Fallon's beach house, their only plan for the summer is meeting their label's harsh deadline for their next album. Two months to finish ten songs. Seems easy for industry professionals like them. But being burnt out from a tour hasn't been great for their mental health, and their lead singer, Asher Reed, is desperate for someone to reignite their spirits again. When Fallon and Asher cross paths, she knows helping The Destructors get back on their feet is her one chance to catch her big break. But it's hard to keep things strictly professional when she finds her heart beating not only for the music, but for the man that brought her into the band. Their chemistry is simply off the charts and bleeds onto the pages of the sheet music itself... When ambitions and external forces thwart the idea of romance, will Fallon and Asher bite the bullet and do what's right for the heart? Or will they destroy the one thing that's actually good for them? One thing's for sure, both of them are about to find out how vicious the music industry can be...

Remiya Siu is just trying to get through her senior year in one piece. Between writing articles for the school's newspaper, her part-time job at a local diner, and the piles of assignments she has to plow through for her AP classes, she barely has time to breathe. The pressure will be worth it, though. Because ultimately, it's going to help her get into Harvard--the college of her dreams. Except it doesn't. She's deferred, and she's crushed. By a stroke of pure luck, an opportunity arises when the annual Grand Achievement award is up for grabs for the first time ever, and she's one of two eligible students. This is what she needs to win so she can (finally) get off Harvard's waitlist once and for all. There's only one problem: competition comes in the form of Blaise Yang, her childhood nemesis, and he refuses to back down.

A novice cupid needs to help a girl and a ghost fulfil their romantic destiny after he mistakenly ties one end of the red string to the wrong boy. ***** What happens when your soulmate dies before you've even met him? The bookish Gemma Yang gets her shot at finding true love when novice faerie Jun is assigned to her case by the God of Marriage. All Jun has to do is one simple thing - tie the invisible red string of fate to the wrist of Gemma and her designated soulmate, the popular Hayden Chung, and let destiny work its magic. However, in a case of mistaken identity, he bungles things up by tying the string to the geeky Takahashi Ryu instead. To make matters worse, Ryu ends up being knocked down by a reckless driver outside the university campus minutes later - and dies. With this massive hot potato in his hands, Jun embarks on a mission to cover up for his mistake and return things to the way they should be - but things rarely go as planned, or do they? Content warning: This story contains mild violence (fight scenes) Cover designed by Ilafi Nastiti

Leighanna Chua has always struggled to fit in. Left feeling disconnected between her suburban community and her own identity, she's determined to prove that she belongs. But when Hunter D'Medici, a boy who embodies the very essence of privilege, offers her a proposal of a lifetime, Leighanna puts aside her morals and accepts. *** 4 years ago, Hunter's sister, Kassie, disappeared without a trace. Left determined and without closure, Hunter enlists Leighanna, a girl as smart as she is insecure, to help him find his sister--dead or alive. cover by @mjwritesx

Noor, a dancer in the Royal Court of the Al-Yauzhan Empire wants nothing more than to pay off her debts and lead a nice, simple life-but a chance encounter with the crown prince and his brother brings her into the dangerous world of court politics. As Noor and the princes investigate their uncle and cousin's possible treason, she grows closer to the crown prince, but in order to save the kingdom and the person she loves, Noor will have to risk everything... A romantic adventure set in an imagined Arabic kingdom, THE DANCING GIRL is a story of court intrigues, romantic entanglements, and secret meetings as Noor and her best friend Amir try to help the princes they're falling for expose corrupt court officials with plans to seize the throne. Noor and Amir are close to having everything they've ever dreamed of...now all they need to do is survive.

When an influencer meets (and falls for) a social media skeptic, she has to decide whether to keep her masks on ― or finally show the world her real self. ⋆☆⋆ Krista Ming has perfected the art of duality. She's a bookish introvert by day and a nebulous mix of Instagram influencer and model and club promoter by night. Juggling Pre-Medical school, two jobs, and her family's high expectations with her cool grace, sharp humour and compassion, everyone loves Krista. Except Quentin Cheng. He hates social media influencers. Krista plots and plans to change his mind, but how much can she do before she loses sight of herself? ⋆☆⋆ [ @WattpadExplorer's Editor's Pick List October 2021 ] [ @Wattpad's College Romances List September 2022 ] [ @Wattpad's Campus Life, Campus Love List August 2023 ] [ Halston University #3. Stand-alone. Completed. Word Count: 90K - 100K ]

{Original Story} Vidya Khan is an anomaly. Her powers manifest when she's seventeen -- that's unnaturally late. Things get even weirder when Celestro, the enigmatic company responsible for all things super, offers her a spot on their elite hero team. Saving the world is complicated, and Vidya is struggling to keep up. The Marvels are not the same smiling, golden heroes they are in the media, and getting along with them is actually harder than fighting the villains. And as if that isn't bad enough, supers are turning up dead, and no one knows who to suspect... Because if Vidya has learned anything, it's that anyone can be the bad guy.