Sixteen-year-old Eleanor "Ellie" Biggs is done. Done with London, with the bullies who broke her, with the whispers that she's defective like her mam, destined to burn out or fade away. Back in Cork- for good, she's promised herself one thing: no one gets close. Not friends, not boys, not anyone. But then there's Cillian Ryan. On the surface he's Tommen's golden boy - the rugby star captain with the grin everyone falls for. Underneath, he's crumbling under the fists of his father, the silence of his mother, and the weight of protecting a little brother who's running out of smiles. Neither of them are looking for each other. But when Ellie's walls crack and Cillian refuses to walk away, something shifts. She's the girl who swore she'd never trust again. He's the boy who swore he'd carry it all alone. Together, they might just be brave enough to face the storms no one else sees. Messy, magnetic, and unflinchingly real - this is a story about first love, family scars, and finding light in the dark.

Bridget Lordan-Dempsey has spent years building walls. Sharp tongue, party-girl reputation, late nights and empty smiles - it's easier to play the screw-up than let anyone see the truth: the scars, the hunger, the constant fear she's already too much and never enough. AJ Lynch has never stopped loving her. Not when she shut him out, not when two years of silence stretched between them, not even when one messy, furious kiss cracked everything wide open again. He hides his feelings under rugby matches, cocky smirks, and bad choices, but Bridget has always been his first weakness. His only weakness. What starts as a reckless deal - rules, secrecy, no feelings - spirals into something neither of them can control. Heated hookups in hidden places turn into movie nights and old treehouse confessions, and every time Bridget swears she's out, AJ pulls her right back in. But loving each other has never been the problem. Trusting each other? Surviving the weight of family, reputation, and the ghosts of their own mistakes? That's what might break them. Because if Bridget lets AJ all the way back in, she knows one truth she can't run from: She won't survive losing him a second time.

Everyone remembers the Lynch fire. Everyone remembers the bodies carried out. But no one remembers the boy left standing in the middle of it all. Tadhg Lynch isn't the golden Lynch boy. He isn't the baby who got shielded from the worst, or the oldest who carved a new life with a family of his own. He's the one in between. The one who saw everything, took the blows meant for his younger brothers, and carried scars no one wanted to look too closely at. Brave. Bold. Mouthy. A joker when he can manage it. And broken enough that nothing ever really sticks. Bethany Gibson is the girl who shouldn't have lived. She was three when the water took her under, when her father gave his life to save hers. She grew up in the shadow of grief, wrapped in the protection of a brother who bled for her in ways she only half understands. Sweet, funny, too kind for her own good-Bethany knows what it is to survive, but not yet what it means to live. When Bethany collides with Tadhg at Tommen, it's fire meeting oxygen-sharp words, sharp looks, a pull neither of them can shake. He's crude, cruel with his jokes, too much for anyone to handle. She's soft where he's jagged, sunshine where he's ash. He calls her Barbie. She calls him an arsehole. And somewhere between the laughs and the fights, they start to see the cracks in each other. But fixing what's shattered isn't simple. Not when trauma festers. Not when grief never loosens its grip. Not when love means putting your hands into the fire all over again. Funny. Raw. Heartbreaking. Fixing 9 is a story about the girl who wouldn't stop caring, the boy who didn't know how to be cared for, and the brutal, beautiful mess of trying to save each other when the world already tried to burn or drown you alive.

❝ 𝖢𝖺𝗎𝗌𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗌𝗂𝗀𝗇 𝗈𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗁𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗍 𝗌𝖺𝗂𝖽 𝗂𝗍'𝗌 𝗌𝗍𝗂𝗅𝗅 𝗋𝖾𝗌𝖾𝗋𝗏𝖾𝖽 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗆𝖾, 𝖧𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗌𝗍𝗅𝗒, 𝗐𝗁𝗈 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝗐𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝖿𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖺𝗅𝖼𝗁𝖾𝗆𝗒 ? ❞ 𝓘𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 ; 𝓒𝙄𝘼𝙍𝘼 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙎𝙊𝙉 has fled from a place that once shamed her--slut, whore, hoe--she heard it all before. After an incident that caused a major ruin in her career as a winning pageant beauty--it opened a sliver of hope for her--to flee from a place--a career that she was forced into. Her mother's never been nice, hopping onto one man to the next--she was the one well deserved of the title "whore" That's why--Ciara has sworn to herself she'll never be like her ma, no matter how identical people claimed they were--or no matter how much Ciara prayed and waited she'd change. Now starting fresh, Ciara plans to not make the same mistakes twice. And especially--not involve herself with unnecessary drama, specifically--with a boy. OR . . . 𝓡𝙊𝙍𝙔 𝙆𝘼𝙑𝘼𝙉𝘼𝙂𝙃 was born with a golden rugby ball in his hands. Expected by everyone to be like his da--talent was expected to be haywired into his function. And it was. The only problem is--with all the talent he has, he can't seem to handle the pressure. The crowds, the reporters, the news articles--he curses them to hell. Unlike most, Rory was very observant of his surroundings. Too observant that his hearing would constantly be blasted to the highest volume--triggering an immediate dislike of crowds. Though being a carbon copy of his father, Rory was downright the personality clone of his mother. Feeling everything and wanting to save the wrong people--Rory was a perfect brew of his parents. [BASED ON THE BOYS OF TOMMEN SERIES BY CHLOE WALSH]

Fiadh Kavanagh is the youngest daughter of John and Edel, with her older brother Johnny being a superstar rugby player she's always been in his shadow. Edel and John have taken the lynch children into their home,helping Joey(the eldest lynch) with his addiction to drugs. But while doing that,they fail to realise just how bad their own daughter's addiction has gotten. tags #1-boysoftommen #1-gibsie #1-gerard #1-shannon #1-lizzie #1-hughie #2-cork #1-johnny #8-boys #10-addiction

Niamh Lynch is used to surviving. She's the girl with fire in her blood, fists always clenched, and walls built so high no one dares to look over them - not even her twin brother, Joey. Between school fights, late shifts, and raising her younger siblings in a house ruled by silence and bruises, Niamh doesn't have time for softness. Or love. Or hope. She's burning herself out to keep everyone else warm. Then there's Gerard Gibson. Loud, ridiculous, golden-hearted Gibsie - the boy who makes people laugh without trying, who hides his own cracks behind chaos. He shouldn't see her. But he does. And worse, he stays. Even when Niamh gives him every reason not to. This is a story about broken kids from broken homes, about anger and tenderness, violence and healing. It's about finding light in the wreckage - not because you believe you deserve it, but because someone refuses to stop giving it to you. Niamh doesn't believe in love. But Gibsie never needed her to. ------------------------------- Gerard Gibson x fem!oc

౨ৎ in which tadgh lynch meets a girl with a similar past of his own before being adopted by the kavanaghs, may kennedy. she was a wallflower, drowning herself in deep sorrow and little lynch reached to save her.

"𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐢𝐧, 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝..." ༇❧𐮙𐮙𐮙𐮙 When 𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀 𝐌𝐂𝐂𝐀𝐁𝐄 returns to Cork County after years away, she's no longer the shy, scrappy girl Patrick Feely once knew. Now attending Tommen College, Nessa is bold, confident, and ready to start fresh. 𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐘, Tommen's quiet rugby star, is content to keep his life simple and drama-free-until Nessa crashes back into his world, challenging everything he thought he knew about friendship, loyalty, and love. As old memories resurface and sparks fly, the two childhood friends must navigate the pressures of high school life, their complicated past, and the possibility of a future together. But will Patrick's guarded nature and Nessa's fierce independence bring them closer, or drive them apart?

Blair O'Connor was the life of every party-popular, fearless, and always the center of attention. But behind the perfect image was an abusive boyfriend who slowly stripped away the girl she used to be. After finally breaking free, Blair transfers schools, desperate for a fresh start. That's where she meets Patrick Feely-the quiet boy she only ever noticed in fleeting glances at parties. When circumstances throw them together, they strike an unlikely deal: fake date. For Blair, it's to keep her ex away. For Patrick, it's to turn someone else's head. But as the lines between real and fake start to blur, they both realize that sometimes the best things come from the most unexpected arrangements. _________ patrick feely x fem!oc ©liawrit3ss

LOST AND INSECURE YOU FOUND ME Johnny Kavanagh had his life planned already Quinn Lynch comes in and wrecks them