Dan is different. He's learned to accept that. Well, as best he can anyway, considering he's never really had much of a choice. It's been this way for as long as he can remember, the constant runaround process of trying to feel normal. His life is built around it, trying to trick both himself and everyone he interacts with into seeing him as your average person. The isolation as he desperately tries to keep others from finding out, the bitterness that wells up inside of him each and every time he's reminded that he'll never be like everyone else, the fear that nothing will ever change. He's fated to be this way forever; a misfit from society. Isolation can only go so far though, so when he's struggling to make ends meet and he's faced with the option of looking into a serious job or taking on a roommate, he opts for what seems like the easier option at the time. It doesn't seem so easy ten failed roommates into the process, or when he sits down at a table to meet with prospect number eleven and ends up with a coffee spilled all over his lap. Potential roommate number eleven, Phil, turns out to be an insufferable optimistic ball of sunshine that Dan wants nothing to do with. His options are running out though, as are the savings he's been using to pay his rent, so he finds himself begrudgingly agreeing to let the other man move in. Neither of them have any way of knowing just what they've gotten themselves into as they shake on the matter, but time will tell.

It started with name calling. Fag, emo, gross, ugly, anorexic, boney. Then, he laid hands on me. On December 19th of 2011, Austin Carlile gave me a black eye. ~TRIGGERING~

Austlan Cashby had always existed. Both Alan and Austin knew it. Everyone knew it. And being cramped on a bus all summer for Warped Tour can cause frustration throughout the band, and maybe a few bottled up feelings too.

We were enemies by birth. We were in love by choice. [trigger warning for like three chapters]

Nothing can break apart a couple who are destined together... Right?

Austin and Alan were complete opposites... Alan was happy and sarcastic, and Austin was a bully and had a bad past. What both had in common; they loved music. When they were paired to do a project that required them to write a song together, they both were in for a huge surprise. Alan didn't ask to fall in love with Austin, and Austin didn't suspect to fall in love with him, either. Will they fit like puzzle pieces, or apart like a broken melody? |Book ONE|

Austin Carlile is a young doctor at a very exclusive hospital (for souls) LOL!. He works his ass off so people can live again. When he meets his newest patient, Alan Ashby, he is slightly taken aback at this young man's past and history. Can Austin save this boy from the pits of self destruction? Or will he just be another disappointment? I suck at summaries. LOL!

So this is just an Austlan Cashby (Austin Carlile and Alan Ashby, members from Of Mice And Men) fan-fic that I have started to write. C: I hope you like it ^^

Mute. That's what they would call him. Alan Ashby has been mute for 1 years not speaking to nobody because he had no one simply to speak to. After his parents nearly shunned him as soon as he came out of the closet. He didn't have anyone no family nor friends to talk with. He has absolutely nothing. That was until Austin Carlile came along. He was the star baseball player at the school who happened to be openly gay and no one minded really, sure there was the few people at the school who would call him a 'fag' but he didn't care because he was happy with who he was as a person. Then everything almost shifted. He ran into some boy who caught his attention. The 'mute' kid that no one talked to. He quickly gained interest in the little ginger and wanted to befriend him or maybe something more but first he needed to find out exactly why the ginger was mute in the first place.

I'll try and update this as much as I can. Wattpad's deciding to be a douche, so I may have to move to Mibba -.- BUT, we'll see! Enjoy :3