Lexi's a surfer and surfing is her passion, but a new boy comes to town bringing a certain type of passion, a certain type of love she's been craving . Her past broke her but little does she know his past broke him too. Both scarred by love but ready to mend the past, but giving your heart to someone to heal the past won't hurt, or will it? ( cover by @samlubooks) *Not edited, most likely will be mistakes* #2 - surfing { 14 / 10 / 20 } #1 - newguy { 29/12/20 } #1 - surfer { 05/08/21}

Olivia Luxor Rossi is the owner of a prestigious clothing brand called Hatchel, this was her dream since she was a little kid. When she was twenty-three years old she got engaged to her high school sweetheart, Rowan Hayes, and everything seemed to go perfectly, especially when the preganancy test she took turned positive. However, maybe things were a little too perfect On a regular august night, just a year after they got engaged and a month before their little girl was born, Rowan went missing under suspicious circumstances, after being missing for three years, he was declared dead. Olivia has shut herself off, she doesn't want to let anyone in. A bold man her age, Marko Anderson, is determined to change that, no matter what it takes.

Callum Davids is East High's golden boy---perfect grades, star hockey captain, and popular reputation. With his arm around the shoulder of the ideal girlfriend, his life seems to be planned out for him: head for the NHL to play professionally and retire rich in the suburbs. All this changes, though, when he gets paired with the new girl who possesses a southern charm. It has been a year since Riley-Jane Stanhope moved from her small town in Georgia to the frigid mountains of Denver, Colorado, and a year since her partnered history project with the most popular boy in school. Her thoughts had never strayed from Callum in that year, and when she bumps into him again, sparks fly between the two, a relationship quickly forming and filling the empty cracks they possess. Can their love last through the trauma and hardships they try so hard to keep hidden? Will they come out of the dark tunnel better than ever, or will someone get left behind in the suffocating pressure it takes to wake up each day? **WARNING** Later on in the story, there will be a graphic scene of finding someone who has committed suicide. Please read with caution.

Reign Miller doesn't believe in love, she thinks all romcoms are cringe and so are high school relationships, even she doesn't know why. Her goal during senior year is to work her ass off so she can make it to a good college, a place where students don't always make out in the hallways or drink from the same milkshake cup. * Football is the only thing Luke Richardson enjoys, he's a rich kid with a pretty face from a rich neighborhood, and everyone thinks his life is going great but that's because he's good at keeping things inside, except for his hate towards Reign, the girl with a smart mouth and only popular for hanging out with popular kids. Himself included.

Silvy Richards has lived the majority of her childhood based on the assumption that she and her surrogate family of friends will always be together forever. But by the time the summer of '88 rolls around, it seems that right when she is drowning in the sea of life, her "family" is drifting further and further from her grasp. Silvy suddenly finds her world spinning out of control and is struggling to figure out how things have managed to go so terribly wrong. Even worse, this spiral seems to be happening at a time when she needs her friends the most. At the tender age of fifteen, Silvy quickly learns that a family united can easily become a family divided. Through a series of epiphanies brought on by drug use, child abuse and sexual assault, she finds herself no longer seeing the world through the eyes of a child, but in the light of a well lived adult. This story follows a group of friends, who think of themselves more as family, through one tragic summer that will alter the course of their lives forever. Some of these kids will make it out of the summer alive, and some of them won't. This is the story of one teenager's struggle for survival, and for the survival of her "security blanket" of friends, sewn together by fate and torn apart the same way. Copyright@2009

She built her walls to survive - but he saw the girl still hiding behind. ***** Hope Graham doesn't remember what it feels like to be whole. Her reflection is a stranger, her silence a shield - and the pain she hides runs deeper than anyone knows. Then came Gavin Beckham. Mysterious. Guarded. The kind of boy she promised herself she'd stay away from. But he sees her - the cracks, the quiet, the storm she carries. And no matter how far she runs, he's always the one who finds her. ***** He smiled too. "Alright. My turn. Truth or dare?" "Truth." "Tell me something no one knows about you." "No one?" "Not even your grandma." I thought for a second. "Okay. You're not gonna believe this, but I'm the biggest nerd ever." He raised an eyebrow. "No way." "I'm serious. I read everything - books, articles, cereal boxes. Anything with words." "But you're always sleeping in class." "I don't like school books. I like storybooks and poetry." "What kind of books?" "Anything except romance." "Why not romance?" "I don't believe in love or happy endings. I'm not a fan of fairytales." "Ah, so you're a love skeptic." "Pretty much." "Why?" "Because I don't think there's an emotion more powerful than pain." "So... you've never been in love?" I shook my head. "No." "Do you want to fall in love?" "Why would I want something that doesn't exist? I'm better off alone." "What if I proved to you that love does exist?" "You'd be wasting your time." I smirked. ***** The Girl She Never Knew She Was is a hauntingly tender story about love, healing, and finding yourself in the person you least expect.

"I love you" she says and kisses my jaw tenderly. "I love you too baby" I reply stroking her still damp hair. We were sat in a dirty McDonald's car park. We could be sat in a fucking pile of trash and I wouldn't care. Because I would be with her. As long as I'm with her, nothing else matters. -------------------------------------------------------- After all he had known was anger and hatred she was like a breath of fresh air to him. With just one look into her mesmerizing chocolate eyes and one listen to her angelic voice he knew he was ruined. He despised this feeling. He felt helpless. No matter how much he tried to stay away he was drawn to her and he knew he was playing a very dangerous game. Leaving the pain of her past behind her she starts a fresh in a new town with her older brother. Meeting the towns bad boy was not on her agenda but every time she saw him she was intrigued. He was rude and had a terrible attitude, but his eyes didn't show anything but pain which is something she knew all too well. They are complete opposites but have one thing in common. They are both broken, maybe just maybe they could be the cure to each others pain. ⚠️ this story contains mentions of abuse and alcohol so if you are not comfortable with this please do not read my story.

From the outside Juliet Kingston seems to have the perfect life. She has popularity, beauty and a famous dad who seemingly spoils her rotten. But nobody is aware of what happens behind closed doors. After spending years at the mercy of her abusive father Juliet sees her chance to escape by attending her dream university across the country but after being told that she doesn't qualify for student aid she faces a problem. Her dad refuses to pay her tuition and in an attempt to control Juliet and to keep her always at arms reach, he makes her a deal. He'll pay her tuition for a smaller, local university as long as she agrees to continue living at home and miss out on the full uni experience. She agrees and starts her first semester soon after but she becomes more and more depressed living with a father who constantly tells her how worthless she is. Her days start to become repetitive and she no longer finds joy in anything, becoming an empty shell of who she used to be . Seeing no point in living, she gives herself a deadline. If something in her life doesn't change by her nineteenth birthday approaching in two months she plans to end her life. But what happens when the quiet drug dealer is the only one to notice her downward spiralling.

Follow Max Edwards. A seemingly normal man thrusted into chaos and bonds that he can't escape from as he journeys through the turmoil of being dead.

Elowyn "Winnie" Smith met Ben when she was 4 years old. They've been best friends since they were 6. After her dad died when she was 13, he was the only person she wanted to talk to. He should know everything about her, shouldn't he? But he doesn't, and Elowyn is slowly drowning in the weight of her secrets. He doesn't know about the creepy guy who won't leave her alone or how bad her home life and her mother have gotten. And he definitely doesn't know that she's slowly falling in love with him. But he would never want her, he's captain of the soccer team and could have any girl he wants. She's the girl he sees as a sister, he's even known her since before she went to speech therapy for her stutter. So why can't she shake this feeling, even though she knows it's so wrong? ✦ ─ ˗ˋ ୨୧ ˊ˗ ─ ✦ He draws me back in, our lips connecting again and I feel like I'm melting. Like I can't think at all. Like there's no such thing as any of my problems. There's no depressed mom, there's no jealousy, there's no secrets. There's only his calloused hand rubbing my cheek and his hair beneath my fingers. I'm hot and I'm cold and I'm melting. I'm gone, disappearing into the sand beneath us. ✦ ─ ˗ˋ ୨୧ ˊ˗ ─ ✦ Tropes: friends to lovers, childhood friends, golden boy, shy girl x popular boy, only one bed, secret crush Triggers: mental illness, depression, sa