Sometimes we're not even fully aware of how similar hate and love really are. How closely they sit together, how thin the line is between them. One wrong word, one wrong choice, one moment of fear or anger, and you cross it without even realizing you've done so. That's how it had alwags been with Casey Miller and Olivia Lordan. They didn't hate each other for no reason. There were reasons, plenty of them, actually. Old wounds that never healed right, memories that calcified instead of fading, words spoken too young and carried for too long. But were those reasons valid enough? That was the question no one ever asked out loud. Because validity is subjective. Pain doesn't measure itself against intent. Trauma doesn't care how old you were, or what you meant to do. It just exists, heavy and unrelenting, shaping you whether you want it to or not. Everyone has flaws. Everyone has demons they fight in private. Some people turn inward and rot quietly. Some people explode. Some people run. Some people stay and harden. None of it is clean, and none of it is fair. And maybe that was the cruelest part for them. Not the hate. Not the anger. Not even the silence. But the fact that, once upon a time, it had been love, or something dangerously close to it, and that was what made everything else hurt so much more.

Forest Hills is a seemingly ordinary town. Tired of her father's alcoholism and with a desire to meet her older sister she didn't know she had, seventeen-year-old Mac decides to move back to her hometown. She even applied to the same restaurant where her sister works. On a night out, she meets Noelle Laurent, who intrigues her. Little does Mac know, the restaurant's staff, including her sister and Noelle, are important members in Forest Hills' biggest mafia. Will Mac uncover the truth about her heritage, or will she become a pawn in a game she never wanted to play?

Sage Castro lives her life by four things, sex, drugs, money, and theft. When a lucrative offer of $200,000 is offered to complete a mysterious job, she finishes the task with ease. But what she didn't realize was the true value as well as problems that came with this job. Especially after unknowingly stealing from a mafia.

Jennifer Jareau x Iris Heart -smut -strong language -eating disorder -self harm 😏-smut ⚠️-any other trigger warning

Claire Shaw wants to disappear. Her entire life she's been judged and ridiculed for the fact that she was born intersex, meaning she's a chick with a dick. And people don't like that. Especially the boys at her school. And while she's used to looks, the comments and even the physical violence, she's not used to the tornado that is Riley Green, the sister of her biggest bully. Riley Green is everything Claire isn't. Loud, popular, out and proud. She makes herself heard, stands up to the bullies and loves her friends with a passion and she goes after what she wants. And what she wants is Claire. When the girls are paired up to do a summer art project, Riley uses it as the perfect excuse to be near the girl everyone hates. And while Claire doesn't trust the sister of her bully, she can't help but to find herself looking forward to seeing her everyday. As the summer drags on, can the girl who is hated by everyone find love with the one person she shouldn't?

Alethea Montgomery, a 17 year old girl starting her senior year of high school. Through her life, she's experienced many hardships, through family trials and drama. Alethea has been through more loss than many lifetimes. She comes from a rough past. She was living everyday in her body but her mind was always somewhere else. When time seemed to stop, it resumed when she seen her. Evelyn Carmine. TW | This story includes: •Abuse •PTSD •Panic Attacks •Mental Disorders •Alchohol •Smoking •Drugs •Language •Death •Self Harm •Mature Content

As senior year was approaching Addie was sent to a new boarding school her family may say its her last chance to redeem herself? Can she really though? She hides a very deep secret that has put a target in her back. Her family isn't aware and she hopes they never know The Altantics? Hell everyone knows them. Especially their bassist Liz she's known as the women they all want but can't have. Their rumored to making it into a label however thats until the news breaks out. Can they keep it a secret is it truly possible to have something they want but both can't have? With so much on the line can they have one thing they truly want? ranks #335 glg #22 glg #216 highschool sweethearts #279 bands #232 band #57 boarding school #48 boarding school #20 glg #188 highschool sweethearts #185 bands

Valeria didn't rush. She never did. Inez was pinned beneath her, wrist locked overhead, the hold precise and impersonal. Not pain. Control. Inez scoffed anyway. "That's it?" she sneered. "I've had tutors scarier than you." Valeria said nothing. The silence pressed in. "You don't scare me," Inez added, louder. Brattier. "You just-" "Enough." One word. Flat. Final. Valeria lifted Inez's chin with two fingers, detached as a correction. "Look at me," she said coolly. "If you're going to embarrass yourself, do it properly." Inez laughed, brittle. "You think this makes you powerful?" "I don't think," Valeria replied. "I decide." Her gaze never wavered. "You provoke because it's the last control you have." "I don't belong to you," Inez snapped. Valeria leaned in, voice razor-thin. "You are my wife. You belong to consequences." She released her grip. "Say it." "No." Valeria waited. The quiet broke Inez, she hated being ignored. "...I'll behave, I'll be a good girl" Inez muttered. "Specify." Inez swallowed hard. "...I'll be your good girl" Valeria stepped back, already distant. "Good," she said. "Remember why." #1 older women-13th February (FAST PACE BOOK)

[There is spelling errors and it's confusing sometimes but I'll try my best to look for them before publishing a chapter] Going to my friend sleepover definitely wasn't something I thought I wasn't going to regret...

Ava Torres, captain of Stanford's women's soccer team, has one goal in mind for her senior year: win the championship and go out on top. She's focused, disciplined, and completely uninterested in distractions. Riley Bennett, captain of the women's basketball team, seems determined to be one. Teasing Ava has become her favorite pastime - harmless, playful... until it isn't. Because somewhere between the banter, the late-night talks, and the almost-kisses, Riley starts to realize the truth she's been trying to laugh off for years - she doesn't just like getting under Ava's skin. She wants her. And when lines start to blur between rivalry and something undeniably real, both girls have to decide whether to keep pretending... or risk everything for what's been building between them all along.