-'𝜗𝜚'- 𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 ⎯ ex lovers, matt sturniolo and hope dalton, who couldn't quite make it work the first time round due to the tragic seperation they endured alongside the tearing of their hearts whenever mere goodbye's were exchanged, suddenly find themselves back in one another's lives, slowly drifting back to each other when they believed they never would. they begin finding the love they never quite escaped once more until it's filling every last sense before they can even grasp the concept. -'𝜗𝜚'- 𝗢𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 ⎯ matt and hope months later begin to learn that first love never really vanishes. they begin to realise the complex emotion is simply pushed to the back of the mind and preserved for later, no matter how much an individual desires it not to be and to forget its original presence. the nervous feeling when they are around one another is still ever so present paired with the contentment they can't help but allow to blossom through the other's company and the beautiful exchange of moments and memories alike. 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 ⎯ matt sturniolo ✘ fem!oc 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 ⎯ real life 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 ⎯ 01/01/23 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗱 ⎯ 01/03/23 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧, ©XIXZAYN.

❛ it's exhausting, pretending to hate you. . . ❜ 𓂃 ⊹ ࣪ ˖ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍰 ‧₊˚ . . . 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚 remembers the day, the very moment her friendship with 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 morphed into cruel, unrelenting hatred. even still, nobody knows exactly what went down that caused this sudden switch. though when a girlfriend is added to the mix, things turn from bad to worse, thus forcing the pair to finally acknowledge feelings both of them have kept hidden for years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ chris sturniolo x fem!oc © aelinslegend 𝜗ৎ 2022.

When Franny learns why former popular boy Tyler fell from grace, she gets thrown head-first into his dangerous world but also closer to his timid heart. ***** Eighteen-year-old Tyler Madden used to have everything. He was captain of the football team, popular, high achiever, and was set to have a successful career. But when a secret too hard to handle comes to light, he turns to underground fighting to deal with the pain. Now, he's in too deep. And when Francesca Howard befriends him at school in the hopes of figuring out what went wrong, she unknowingly gets pulled into the criminal world he's now stuck in. As the two find comfort in each other, they find themselves faced with their impending future and trying to get Tyler out alive. Content/Trigger Warning: this story contains scenes pertaining to drug use, substance abuse, and violence. [#1 in teen fiction, romance and action]