1...2...3... Breathe How would you feel if that was everything keeping your world from falling apart? For Luca Romano, the Italian 16 years old, that breath was all he had. It was the fragile thread holding his life together he hadn't spoken a word in over 10 years. Not one. Not to his parents. Not to his brothers. Not to anyone But why? And why hadn't anyone in his family noticed until it was almost too late? come with and find out more about this mute boy and his family ~A~ Hi, this story contains themes of mental health issues, suicide idealation, and self-harm there will be TW before any parts that I feel would be triggering for some people

Joseph spent six years running from the worst mistake of his life and from the half brother he left behind. Jake Carter is a cop, steady, disciplined, and everything Joseph isn't. After their parents died, Jake became the one constant in Joseph's life until one reckless night shattered their bond and sent Joseph running. Now, six years later, an unexpected reunion in a small California coastal town forces them both to face the pain they've spent years trying to bury. Joseph has built his life on charm, lies, and fast exits, but when trouble finds him again in the world of street racing, Jake is pulled back into the role he never really stopped carrying: the brother trying to save him. The Road Home is a gritty, emotional story about brotherhood, redemption, and the long hard road back to the people who never really stop being family.

Six brothers once belonged to the same home, but life broke them apart. The four elder brothers were abandoned by their parents and left to survive alone. They grew up carrying pain, thinking they had lost everything. The youngest twins, Elio and Lucas, were taken away. But not to a safe place...to a home filled with fear and cruelty. Their parents hurt them both, again and again. Elio, the older twin, always tries to protect Lucas. Even when he is scared, even when he is breaking himself, he stands in front of his brother. But he cannot stop all the pain. Lucas stays quiet and soft, suffering in silence, just holding on to Elio. Two brothers trying to protect each other... in a world that keeps hurting them anyway.

Dawson has had it rough. Not as bad as some, worse than others. He lives in constant secret, heart ache and pain. After his parents died he under went a transformation, rendering him unrecognizable. After three years of pain, cutting, and one suicide attempt, he returns to his hometown. As Dawson hides his identity, it will become harder and harder to seal away the truth when faces from the past start revealing themselves, including his gorgeous ex best friend Alec. Only Dawson isn't the only one with secrets and when a lie reaches Dawson's ears, it will take all he has in him to protect the one thing he has left. Himself. Dealing with depression is hard, and Dawson will have to learn it's not something that can be handled alone. He'll have to open up his heart once more, even if it risks him getting hurt, if he wants to achieve happiness. ---------------------------- This is a trigger warning, to anyone that has problems with self-harm I recommend you don't read this as there are some graphic scenes. Also, this is a boyxboy story, so if you don't like hot steamy action between two boys, this is not the story for you. If you don't like it you shouldn't even be reading this anyway and I will not tolerate hate. You do not choose your sexuality and no one else has the right to make someone feel bad about who they are. Also, if any of you are having problems, or the story has triggered you, please inbox me. I love to hear from my readers.

Hunter Styles is a 17-year-old, 12th grader at a new school after his parents divorce. His dad and him move to a new town to be closer to his dad's family, causing Hunter to attend a new school. On his very first day of school, he meets four very sexy, very mysterious men, all four are best friends, but they have a deadly aura about them. Giovanni Rossi is a 18-year-old, 12th grader, who is the son of at the Italian-American mafia Boss in New York City, New York. Gio, and his three life-long best friends, meet new student Hunter Styles on his first day of their final year of high school.

Seventeen years old Sam Adams doesn't do well with people. He prefers staying home on the weekends and staying away from parties. He has only one friend- and that's his older sister, who is now off to college, leaving Sam to spend his days at home with his mom and his painting. Until one day, his mother decides to transfer him to an all-boy boarding school, thinking that will force her son to socialize. But Sam didn't tell her that at his old school, he was being bullied. The broken arm she thought had occurred from falling was actually caused by bullies. Now in his new school, Sam learns that everyone has a club they belong to. Sam knows that no one will want to befriend the shy, introvert boy who spends his days drawing. But you can't stay alone in this school, which Sam comes to realise when the school's bullies pick him as their new target, and that makes Sam think that this is how he'll spend the rest of his two years in school. Until suddenly, the most secluded club decides to defend Sam and take him under their wings. No one is as surprised as Sam that the group of four scary boys wants to include the quiet boy in their club. But the most shocking thing is that the cold, feared boy named Ren starts showing Sam his soft and kind side no one ever got to see. Maybe this new school won't be as bad as Sam thought. *Currently on pause. Read latest update for more details.*

He learned early that hunger doesn't always mean food. Sometimes, it's the silence of an empty room... the absence of a voice calling your name... the feeling of standing in a crowd and still having no one. By day, he is just another student-quiet, unnoticed, chasing marks and a dream he isn't sure he can afford. By night, he carries a delivery bag heavier than it looks, walking past bright homes that were never meant for him. He doesn't complain. He doesn't expect. Because life has already taught him-nothing stays. Until one door opens... and someone looks at him not with pity, but with warmth. For the first time, he is asked to stay. For the first time, someone waits for him. For the first time, "home" doesn't feel like a distant word. But when you've lived your whole life believing you don't belong anywhere... accepting love can be the hardest thing of all. Maybe some people aren't born into families. Maybe... they find them.

Twenty year old Azaan Khan hates the thought of family. Life has burnt him so many times- he doesn't believe in its tethers. Love was fake. Family was a lie. Life was just meant to walk towards certain death. The world had deemed him insane, then so be it. Insane he was. So when he is found and bound to the family that once lost him- rage fills him, hate pounding in his heart at this lie infront of him. He vows to make them send him back, break the chains they placed around him themselves. Ranveer Rathore goes to find the baby they once lost- he has everything in his palm. Perfect brothers, perfect lineage, perfect company. Just one thing had been missing all these years- his youngest brother lost in a tragedy no one ever recovered. What he finds instead is a boy with a shark like smile, maniacal smile, and a bloody cackle of a laugh Will he be able to love this boy wearing the blood of his brother or is Azaan's insanity, enough to drive them all away? Basically what if a perfectly normal family meets a boy who would leap off a building for fun.

Oliver Green was not okay. He was bullied, unloved, unwanted, and worst of all, disgusting. At home he would suffer the cold, brash attitude of unloving parents. At school he would suffer the loneliness of being an outsider. The fear of being bullied. The shame of being so disgusting. One day Oliver snaps. While getting bullied things get taken a little too far. Oliver's clothes are torn away from him, revealing his ugly self to the world. He blacks out, hears the smashing of a window, screaming, when he comes to, he realizes he's in deep shit. Ending in his parents sending him away to the Institution for Disturbed Young Adults. Follow Oliver's journey of rediscovery and healing. Find out if Oliver gets the happy-ever-after-ending he has always read about.

Bottling up emotions is one of Danny's greatest skills. Since the age of 5, Danny has had to fend for himself in the rough environment of foster care. Each time he'd get a new foster family seemed to create more problems than it solved. He built up his walls. To the untrained eye, Danny was a straight A student, and a polite, kind, quiet teenager. It was the reputation he spent years creating. All he ever wanted was to not be seen as the "troubled foster kid." And it was a success. That is, until his biological father reached out and tore his walls down. Danny was more confused than ever. He had a family, 3 brothers, that he didn't even know existed. He couldn't help but feel jealousy at the thought that they were raised with his father while he struggled with abusive foster parents. He had one prominent question, though; just what exactly happened to his mother?