Quinn Winters never expected to see the boy who made her life miserable sitting across from her. She's barely holding herself together, and the last person she wants anywhere near her is Xavier Cole-the school's golden-boy hockey captain and the same person who spent years making her dread every school day. The rules are simple: show up, talk, and don't walk away. Neither of them plans to follow the last one. As the sessions continue, the walls between them begin to crack. Behind Xavier's reputation is a boy carrying secrets of his own, and behind Quinn's silence is a grief too heavy to face alone. What starts as forced conversations becomes an unexpected friendship. And somewhere between shared confessions, quiet apologies, and learning how to breathe again, they discover that healing is easier when someone chooses to stay. Sometimes the people who hurt us the most become the ones who help us heal. Sometimes fixing someone else starts with letting them fix you, too.

~~~~ " What would happen if people got to know our thoughts? Would it make any difference to the world? Would we be strangers to the people we know? Would it change anything? "

Some things are buried for a reason... But when forgotten data resurfaces, curiosity becomes the first mistake. And once it's opened, there's no going back.

Copyright © 2026 by Darkrai_X In Room 309, people learn how to survive each other's pain. Elise Valencia is dying, and everyone around her seems to speak softer because of it. Everyone except Matteo Reyes, the chaotic night shift cleaner who steals hospital sunflowers, breaks rules constantly, and refuses to treat her like she's already gone. What begins as irritation slowly becomes something deeper inside the oncology ward, where laughter feels rebellious, love becomes complicated, and strangers leave permanent marks on one another's lives.

You realize one day you don't belong to yourself. How does it feel? Thomas MacMillan, your average straight-A good boy, is serving a sentence for being his parents' perfect son. That is, until a bizarre supernatural college scoops him up. And then? Man-eating monsters. Cosmic glitches. Shady institutional secrets. Hideous heart issues. One time-travelling psycho. The term has just started, boy. ... Puppeteered by his controlling parents, all Thomas MacMillan thought he wanted to do was get into an elite university. But when a strange email shows up one morning, he never thought that would punch a hole through his reality. Or that all the colleges would cut him off at once. They call it MacMillan College. And Tom belongs to them. As a freshman in MacMillan College, Tom thinks he's found freedom. Life. But he soon realizes that this place is married to chaos. Hey. Wait. His roommate's heart is withering away. Hey. Wait. One of their classmates is a man-eating monster. Hey. Wait. His childhood bestie Mary Herrmann is back and it comes with a flurry of unwanted feelings. But torn between volatile abilities and shady professors, dirty secrets and life-threatening scenarios, those feelings might just be the only thing still holding him together. Welcome to MacMillan College, home to the surreal and the supernatural. Hope you all have a delightful semester. ... CONTENT WARNING: Rated R (18+) for graphic violence, strong language and heavy themes.