"Smoking is bad, you know." The placid voice speaks up from the distant dark corner, nothing to see but a tall silhouette and an orange glow of a cigarette cherry. "It's the least of my problems," I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris valley my throat when I suck delicately. He exhales a chuckle of cynical amusement, his footsteps getting every step clearer to my eardrums until I eventually sense body heat burning my back. "And why is that?" He whispers over my shoulder, hands inviting themselves to grip the railing in front of me so I become a prisoner between his inked arms. I swallow. "Because you'll be the one to kill me first." // Aven Brooks is hired to take pictures for the world-renown punk rock band known today as Duplicity; hoping the experience gets her into her most elite-dreamed university. However, when her lenses accidentally capture more than just cheeky sound checks and performances, she comes to a horrifying discovery that Duplicity is anything but a band. Appalled and frightened, she's trapped. *HIGHEST RANKINGS* #1 IN HARRYSTYLES #1 IN ONEDIRECTION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO @happydays1d NOT ALLOWING TRANSLATIONS! CONTAINS VULGAR LANGUAGE / DRUG ABUSE / SEXUAL CONTENT / DESCRIPTIVE VIOLENCE / MENTAL HEALTH READ AT OWN RISK!

[ enemies to lovers trope ] How am I ever capable of loving the person I hate the most? #1 in rini on april 20th, 2021- july 7th 2021

"𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫!" "𝐧𝐨 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐲! 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭!" a secret relationship is never the ideal thing, especially not when you're famous...

- a tale in which a certain boy, ricky bowen, could hold everyone's pain but his own.

"When I die, I yearn to be reborn as one of them." She gestures with her chin toward the few graceful swans gliding effortlessly across the crystal-clear water. "A swan?" She nods. "A swan." // Pearl, an apathetic but misunderstood young woman lands in New York, determined to take down Rafael Ricci-the ruthless owner of a human trafficking ring. However, a twisted discovery forces her to reunite with Harry Styles-an intolerable and reckless cafe owner. ...who she has known since childhood. Harry finds himself fixating on Pearl's transformation-and while she is determined to take down the man who ruined her life, he's determined to discover the truth. THIS BOOK CONTAINS MATURE/EXPLICIT CONTENT. READ WARNINGS BEFORE PROCEEDING!*+

sequel to cruel summer. [rini au] after a summer full of change for nini salazar-roberts and ricky bowen, the two new best friends return back to salt lake city. they realize home is a lot harder than they thought it would be and struggle to find a state of euphoria together. was it just a summer fling or could it be a little bit more?

ricky bowen and nini salazar-roberts have been at each other's throats since freshmen year. their plans for this summer: to get as far away from each other as possible. but what happens when fate has something else in mind?

Ricky Bowen moved away to Chicago due to his parents divorce. Every night since then, he's had the same recurring dream of a specific girl, who he didn't know, sitting with him in a specific diner, one he has not been to. That is, until he moved back to Salt Lake City for his senior year of high school. - Started: July 5th, 2020 Ended: September 12th, 2020

an au where the two richest and most popular people hate each other so much that they fall in love