Kenneth Phelps is the lead priest at the local church and has strict rules for his family. This leads to his son Travis Phelps to hate his whole being. His problems with his father are bad but he gets to escape at school being the one who pushes people around. Until he meets Sal Fisher or "sally face" a boy with a mask who Travis often fantasizes about despite thinking it's a sin. Due to his love hate for Sal he bullies him and his friends. But Travis and sal get to know each other better and Travis might find someone who is worth sinning for. Sal fisher or "sally face" just moved to the Addison apartments over the summer. He met Larry Johnson his now best friend who introduced him to all his friend's. When school started everything was going smoothly until Travis Phelps the local priests son started bully Sal and his friend's calling them homos and an array of awful things. Despite Travis awful attitude towards sal and his friend's sal tries to befriend Travis and get to the core of his problems After they get close sal might just help Travis find someone who is worth sinning for. [contents warning *abuse, homophobia, the F slur, self harm, smut but not until part 18]

The same bully at Nockfell high has been tormenting sally for years. He never knew why. Why did he hate him so much? He never understood why the blonde boy hated him so deeply, maybe 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮 he'll understand Credit for the cover: bublegumun (on instagram) Holy moly 😱 I would also like to mention I do have the right to say any slurs said in the book out of respect I will not be writing any slurs I cannot say so please don't come at me if a slur is said in the book- 💕This story is tons of fluff and angst💕 TWS: This story contains the following, Abuse Physical abuse Drugs Alcohol Emotional abuse Mention of Ed (eating disorders) Scars Violence Bleeding Cussing Slurs Homophobia Sexual abuse Religious trauma (a lot) If any of these are triggering please do not read this for your own safety!

I don't own the fan art in the cover. I don't know who they belong to but if I find out I'll send credits to them. I have been a lil obsessed with this ship soooooooo... yeah.

The last person Sal thought he'd end up falling for was Travis Phelps, but as he'd learned time and time again, the unexpected was to be expected. WORD COUNT: 160,833 STARTED: NOVEMBER 12, 2021 FINISHED: DECEMBER 27, 2022

. . ∴━━━✿━━━∴ 【𝑺𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑲𝑺 𝑿 𝑩𝑼𝑮𝑮𝒀 𝑶𝑵𝑬𝑺𝑯𝑶𝑻】 【𝙊𝙉𝙀 𝙋𝙄𝙀𝘾𝙀】 ~ 𝘖𝘯𝘦-𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 "Flower petals and blood. Two things that shouldn't go together, but somehow did. Hanahaki, they named it. The consequences of love. To love, it required your life on the end.. So what if, our dear Shanks had hanahaki? What would happen to him, and everyone else?" 𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 1 - neutral. "𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘪.." 𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 2 - happy. "𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦" 𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 3 - sad. "𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘴" 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿: I do not own One Piece or any images that'll be used in this fanfiction. ┗━━━━ • ✿ • ━━━━┛