"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!

They never tell you what to do when five girls from your school go missing. They never tell you what to do when you witness them getting murdered in the middle of the woods. Tragedy seems to follow me around. It constantly lurks behind me, waiting for the exact moment to snap its fingers and mess up everything. And that night, everything changed. Because, after that night, I wasn't the same person anymore. I'm not known for being reckless. It's not me. But now, after I saw death with my own eyes, I can't seem to care anymore about the consequences. I got involved too deeply, and now it's too late to turn around. There is only one rule. Lie. •••••• Genevieve Farrow is a sweetheart. A girl with a heart of gold who struggles on her own. No one sees the scars that she hides so well, or the battles she has to face every day. Despite the mask that she tries to put up, existing is just exhausting for Genevieve. Dealing with her own problems is more than enough for her. That's until she finds herself tangled in a crime scene that she can't run away from, and everything in her life seems to turn upside down. Pike Charleston is the type of boy people warn you to stay away from. Hot-headed, stubborn, and aggressive, he's known for his dangerous reputation. But he has secrets that no one knows of. A past that he desperately tries to forget. A boy that was forced to grow up sooner than he should have. Pike thinks he will never find peace, but when he gets a glimpse of her, it seems like happiness is in the cards for him. Two tattered souls finding each other. Both broken and lost. So wrong and yet so right for each other. But will love be enough to hold them together? Will it be enough to earn them a happily ever after? There's only one way to find out. •••••• Started: December 27, 2023 Finished: