Luke Hemmings is having a quarter-life crisis during his senior year at high school. He's fallen out of touch with family and friends, slowly building a wall around him that everyone can tell is there but no one will acknowledge. When Anna, an exchange university boarder from Australia, comes to live at his family's house he finds himself connecting with her more than those he's known his whole life. This is a coming of age story of first loves, mistakes and revelations, of finding a place in a world so big and overwhelming, it sometimes makes you feel like a stranger.

fool's par·a·dise (noun) : a state of happiness based on a person's not knowing about or denying the existence of potential trouble. Excerpt~ He flicks his tongue along his swollen lips, "This wasn't supposed to happen, you know? I never intended for it to be this hard.." The space between his words was engulfed with a deadly silence before he finally spoke again, "But isn't that what always happens? We set all these expectations that cover up all thats bad...and it feels so good... But when the mask fades, and the scars come up, that feeling is so numb that its like it never existed in the first place...And we are left wondering; How many days will this last? How many days will we last? ~ Ashton Irwin and Luke Hemmings FanFiction (not Lashton)

"Truth makes us transparent..." In sixteen-year old Sage Stronghold's world, civilization has been divided into five factions; abnegation, amity, candor, dauntless, and erudite. With each faction devoted to the development of specific virtues such as; selflessness, peace, honesty, bravery, and intelligence. At the age of sixteen, the communities' youths must choose the faction to which they will dedicate the entirety of their lives. The cause of it all? Simple, an attempt to form the ideal world. After receiving life threatening results on his Aptitude Test, Sage Stronghold discovers that the world he once saw as black and white, has more areas of grey than he ever realized. On his Choosing Day, Sage is then faced with the life altering decision of whether to stay with his family and the life he knows, or try and create a new existence in a different faction. He makes a choice. But is it the right one? Sage has a secret, dark and threatening to destroy him; one that he must fight to bury and conceal from everyone, because if anyone finds out, it would mean certain death. His candor-roots scream for the truth to be heard, while his sensibilities tell him to keep quiet. The truth sets you free. Or so they say...© Completed. Prequel: Set before Divergent/ Insurgent/ Allegiant events. "Featured in the official Wattpad @Fanfic Divergent reading list"

Where a naive girl with lots of baggage and a rockstar that can't seem to think of anyone but himself fall in love over the span of 24 hours

Join Chase and Carli in their quirky journey towards discovering themselves and each other.