¨you promise to stay?¨ ¨Always.¨

he saved me and i saved him📚 Read to find out!!

Kamirie gets bullied for being chubby. one day he runs into the popular boy. then the unexpected happens.

Malik Taylor, a 25 year old man in the hood who grew up without parents, the only adult figure he had in his life was his grandmother. Lorenzo Russo, a 27 year old man who also grew up in the hood. He grew up with both parents who gave him everything he could ever imagine. Malik is a stubborn hothead who doesn't listen to anyone and likes to work alone, while Lorenzo is a calm trigger happy person who doesn't take shit from anyone. What happens when both Malik and Lorenzo get paired up to handle some business for their boss? Will Malik learn to live with it or will he torment Lorenzo, until Lorenzo has had enough?

Shannon Cole has always survived by noticing what others miss. Numbers stick. Faces linger. Conversations don't fade. In the hood, that kind of mind doesn't stay unnoticed-it gets used. Shannon has become a quiet resource, passed between crews whenever something needs remembering, calculating, or confirming. He tells himself it's temporary. Just helping. Just staying afloat. Until everyone wants him. As gangs begin circling closer, access to Shannon turns into competition-and then into risk. Because when too many people want what you know, someone eventually decides you're too valuable to share. Tiger Laurent doesn't compete. He decides. Tiger runs things with calm precision, and when he claims Shannon, it isn't curiosity-it's control. Pulled out of circulation and placed under Tiger's watch, Shannon finds himself safer than he's ever been-and more trapped than he imagined possible. Protection blurs into possession. Use starts to feel permanent. And the more indispensable Shannon becomes, the harder it is to tell whether he's being kept alive... or quietly erased.

Nazir and Ammo are gang rivals bound by history, pride, and a deep dislike that follows them through the streets and the halls of school. Every encounter feels hostile, charged, and one step away from violence. When Nazir's best friend Bando brings him an opportunity involving one of Ammo's operations, it quickly turns into a dangerous mistake. What should have been simple goes wrong, chaos erupts, and the consequences leave scars that can't be ignored. Not long after, a fight between Nazir and Ammo at school lands them in in-school suspension. What starts as tension turns into something neither of them expected, and anger gives way to a kiss that changes everything. Determined to forget what happened, Nazir tries to move on. But the truth is unavoidable. The hate they thought defined them was never just hate. It was the beginning of something far deeper and far more dangerous.

Ziare Emmelle. Street nigga turned club promotor. Sincere Kazzi. King Pin turned strip club owner. When these two worlds collide, it's a story of betrayal, unexpected love and violence.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝘿𝙞𝙤𝙧 𝙎𝙝𝙞𝙩

where keem finds cam at the darkest place in his life and vows that he won't leave him there.