[boyxboy] [complete*] [unedited] "You poor arrogant boy- keep hoping, you'll get nowhere." Alexei is drowning and he's having a hard time staying afloat by himself. With a disappearing mother, unsympathetic social workers and hungry police not far off his trail he is running out of ways to keep going. He's desperate to find a foothold that will propel him into a secure future. Maybe joining one of the most infamous high school rugby teams in the states was a bad idea but with one foot already in the door and a ragtag rich kid team dragging him with them Alexei finds too late that he can't turn back. **** #69 in #rugby as of 11/17/19 if you know what I mean Completed March 15, 2020 * to my standards, you'll hate the ending so don't come at me when you've finished. this is your warning don't complain later when you chose not to listen

Elliot Brushwood has no friends at school, and no friends at home either, coming in second to his brother Colby despite being older, unable to focus in school, bullied and side-lined, and too emotional to know how to fight back, it seems as though everything is out of his control. Arran King is the opposite, effortlessly in charge with an unfortunate reputation, a layabout, ruthless, and a murderer... There's nothing Arran dislikes more than weakness. Maybe that's why there was no way the two characters would ever meet. But everything changed when Elliot hit the water, breaking the freezing cold surface of the Lake Ransom, his undue baptism seems to change him forever. Empty to his core, Elliot ventures out at night, to recover the lost bits of his soul. And he might just meet a demon on his way.