childhood best friends. one argument. two kids. one left by another and they didn't talk again for 7 years. what happens when years later they meet again in their home town in the grand city of New York? was it fate or bad luck?

🧰🌫️🍃༊*·˚ ━━━━━━━━━━ ' time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me i know i could've loved you, but you would not let me ' ━━━━━━━━━━ ⋆˚ 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ erin brady was always ambitious. she was the first girl in primary school to get her pen license, and now she was completely determined to be the next political leader in the republic of ireland ⋆˚ 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ joey lynch was used to being full of anger and resentment. he'd been dodging hits from his dad as long as he could remember and what better way to cope than with intoxication and messing around with the wrong people ⋆˚ 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ the two most unlikely people to ever meet end up forming the most intimate bond anyone can ask for, but when it all comes down, they have to ask themselves the question ... is it really worth it ? JOEY LYNCH X FEM!OC headdinthewall 2025

❝ I SEE HER PAIN IN MINE AND IT HURTS SO MUCH. ❞ • ୨💌୧ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 . . . Ophelia Murphy has perfected the art of being invisible. The quiet girl at Tommen, she's learned to survive her mother's sharp words, her father's absence, and the constant sting of classmates who see her as an easy target. Books and silence are her only refuge, though even those can't quiet the storm she carries in her chest. Tadgh Lynch has a new surname on his school jacket and a new bed in the Kavanagh household, but nothing inside him feels new. At seventeen, he's still carrying the weight of the house he grew up in, a house that left him fractured, haunted, and stuck in a world where he never got the chance to grow up. Everyone around him seems to have moved forward. Tadgh can't. One reckless night changes everything. Dragged to a party she doesn't want to be at, Ophelia crosses paths with Tadgh-two people who shouldn't have noticed each other, but do. He sees past her silence. She sees the boy behind the walls he never lets anyone near. What begins as an unexpected encounter turns into something neither of them were looking for: a fragile connection strong enough to pull them out of the shadows. But with their pasts pressing hard against them, love might not be the easy part-surviving it might.

Cages aren't made of iron or steel; they're made up of the lies and half-truths we build our realities upon. Sixteen-year-old Caterina Donati's life appears ridiculously perfect on the outside. She's rich, beautiful, and top of her class and continues to maintain this facade until an old classmate's return to Ashton Wellesley Academy turns her world upside down. With ink, piercings, and attitude to match, Zachary Mazur is no longer the boy everyone used to bully in seventh grade. They become rivals from day one. Chaos ensues as egos clash and sparks fly. Cate soon discovers there's much more to Zac than meets the eye, and the two of them embark on a quest for truth and justice. The dark and wrenching journey brings Cate and Zac closer than ever even while it unravels everything the young lovers know about themselves and the smiling sharks around them. "Gilded Cage" is the first book in my "Gilded" series. Be sure to check out the sequel, "Gilded Hearts," after reading this one.

"𝐇𝐮𝐠𝐡, 𝐢 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬!" McKinley Lynch had it rough. an abusive household, mainly her father, a mother who never cared. no one truly cared about her. that's how she felt, until a certain blonde haired boy came along hugh biggs had it all, a loving family, a beautiful face, people who cared about him, the rugby team, so many friends, and no bullies. he had at it all, and even more when he met her. when two best friends have a one night stand and end in a accidental pregnancy.

Anna Lynch was fucking petrified of men. Not just uncomfortable- terrified.She'd flinch if one of us so much as walked too close. She was always keeping herself pressed to walls, eyes darting for exits like she was planning an escape. And it wasn't just the loud ones or the gobshites. Even Johnny Kavanagh-her sisters boyfriend -made her recoil. That's when it really hit me. This wasn't nerves. This was trauma, stitched into every muscle in her body. The only lads she wasn't afraid of were her brothers-Joey and Darren. She stuck to them like her life depended on it, like they were the only two people in the world who'd never let her down. The rest of us? We were threats until proven otherwise #1-hughbiggs #1-chilhoodtrauma #1-mentalhealth #1-mutism

"Losing him was blue, like I'd never known Missing him was dark gray, all alone Forgetting him was like trying to know Somebody you never met But loving him was red Oh, red Burning red,"

"𝓘'𝓭 𝓫𝓾𝓻𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓮 𝓽𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓭𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝔂𝓸𝓾." "𝓘 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀. 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽'𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓼 𝓶𝓮."

𝙊𝙋𝙃𝙀𝙇𝙄𝘼 𝙇𝙔𝙉𝘾𝙃'S fury was a storm that broke loose the second she saw her sister go down. Without a second thought, she mistook 𝙅𝙊𝙃𝙉𝙉𝙔 𝙆𝘼𝙑𝘼𝙉𝘼𝙂𝙃 for the culprit and decided he deserved a dose of his own medicine. Grabbing the rugby ball, she launched it back at him with a force that was all raw, righteous anger. Johnny saw her, and in that moment, the entire world outside of her seemed to fade away. He was a boy who lived and breathed the game, but her sheer intensity pulled his attention off the pitch. It wasn't her body he noticed first, but her eyes-the color of whiskey, sharp and defiant, framed by dark lashes that contrasted with the soft, rebellious pink in her hair. He noticed the way she swallowed hard, as if choking down words she couldn't dare to speak, and the way her jaw tightened before she unleashed a snarky remark at his best friend, Gibsie. He was captivated. But he knew, with a certainty that was both thrilling and terrifying, that girls like her came with a warning label. They were the ones who broke you and then laughed as you bled. Still, a dangerous instinct told him that to let her walk away would be a regret he'd carry forever. ♱ ᴏᴘʜᴇʟɪᴀ ʙʀɪᴅɢᴇᴛ ᴍᴜʀᴘʜʏ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʜɪʟᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ʟᴏᴠᴇʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴀꜰꜰᴀɪʀ. ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ʜᴀꜱ ʙᴇᴇɴ ʙᴇᴀᴛᴇɴ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴀɴᴅ ɢᴜᴛᴛᴇᴅ ʙʏ ʜᴇʀ ᴏᴡɴ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ. ᴛʜᴇ ʏᴏᴜɴɢ ɢɪʀʟ ᴡʜᴏ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴅᴏɢ. ꜱʜᴇ ʙɪᴛᴇꜱ ᴅᴏᴡɴ! ꜱʜᴇ ᴇᴀᴛꜱ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ! ʙᴜᴛ ꜱʜᴇ'ꜱ ꜱᴄᴀʀᴇᴅ, ᴄʀʏɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʀᴀʏɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ᴀ ᴡᴀʏ ᴏᴜᴛ! ♱

༇❧❧✥✥ 𝐀́𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐍 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐇 is known as Tommen College's academic weapon. With her focus solely on her academics and maintaining her 4.0 GPA, Álainn doesn't have the time for anything outside of her studies. Going into her sixth year at Tommen College, Álainn is determined to get into the university of her choice. Nothing and no one can get under her skin-except for one person, and that's one of Tommen College's rugby players, Hughie Biggs. ༇❧❧✥✥ 𝐇𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐈𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐆𝐆𝐒 has been playing rugby alongside his friends Johnny, Patrick, and Gibsie his entire life-it's all he knows, or that's what most people think that's all he knows. What most don't know, is that Hughie is also at the top of most of his classes, except for one, and that's because of the one girl who gets under his skin, Álainn Walsh. She infuriates him and intrigues him at the same time. Two academic rivals. One moment to get close. A school year full of unspoken feelings.