Thanks to this awesome girly @fralachi_lover for the story idea and designing the title cover for me which looks awesome Josh Colley has one rule for his best friend: Don't touch my sister. Malachi Barton has spent years pretending that rule doesn't destroy him. Because Freya Skye has always been the one person he could never stop wanting - no matter how hard he tried. Freya knows falling for her brother's best friend is a bad idea. She knows sneaking around could ruin everything. But it's hard to stay away from someone who looks at her like she's the only person in the room. Especially when the almost touches start becoming real ones. Especially when late-night conversations turn into secrets. Especially when one mistake changes everything. Now Josh is starting to notice the tension between them. The stolen glances. The unfinished sentences. The way Malachi would do anything for her. And if the truth comes out, they could lose more than just their friendship. Because the closer Freya and Malachi get to each other... the closer they get to destroying the one person standing between them.

❝ 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆... 𝑾𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒔𝒐 𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒆. ❞ ˚₊۶ৎ˙⋆ 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝔂𝓪 𝓢𝓴𝔂𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓜𝓪𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓸𝓷 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓪𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓰. 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓼𝓱, 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓮𝓽𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝔂 𝓸𝓷 𝓸𝓹𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓼𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓻𝓸𝓸𝓶. 𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻, 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓯𝓽 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰. 𝓔𝓷𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝔂 𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 - 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓽𝓻𝔂. ˚₊۶ৎ˙⋆

Credits to @fralachi_lover for the awesome title page which I love so much thanks girly love you 💞 Everyone thinks Malachi has the perfect life. He's popular, charming, talented - the golden boy everyone wants to be around. He smiles at the right moments, says the right things, and hides the shaking in his hands before anyone can notice. Because at home, nothing is perfect. Behind closed doors are screaming matches, slammed doors, and nights that leave Malachi counting breaths just to make it through. The panic attacks, the fear, the exhaustion - he hides all of it from everyone. Everyone except Freya Skye. Freya is known as the quiet girl. The one who keeps her head down, avoids crowded hallways, and never lets anyone get too close. Nobody knows that after losing her parents, she's been living alone with grief too heavy to talk about. She understands silence. She understands fear. And somehow, she understands Malachi before he even says a word. What starts as shared glances and late-night conversations slowly turns into something deeper - something neither of them expected. But as their connection grows stronger, so do the secrets between them. Because loving someone means letting them see the broken parts. And neither of them knows if they're ready for that.

Freya never expected the *Descendants: Worlds Collide Tour to change her life the way it did. For six months, she travels the world with a close group of castmates-Malachi, MK, Kylie, and Malia-living in a fast-paced blur of rehearsals, performances, and backstage chaos. From the outside, it looks like a perfect, inseparable group. From Freya's perspective, everything feels simple at the time. She doesn't notice the quiet shifts happening beneath the surface or the changes in relationships she was never made aware of. Over the course of the tour, she develops feelings for Malachi-unspoken, undefined, and never confessed. Fans begin shipping Fralachi, turning their on-stage chemistry into edits and theories, but Freya never confirms anything and assumes it is just fandom imagination. After DZWCT ends, everything breaks apart in silence. Malachi suddenly cuts off communication with Freya without explanation, leaving her hurt and confused. Around the same time, hidden relationship shifts happen within that same circle-Kylie and Malachi briefly date during the tour, and later Malachi and Malia begin something after the tour ends, while Kylie steps away from both. Freya, left without closure, channels everything into music. Her song Stardust becomes the first public glimpse of her emotional world. Malachi reposts it without comment, but Freya chooses not to repost his support, marking the beginning of her emotional distance from him. That leads into her Stars Align Tour, where her music becomes deeply personal and reflective of unresolved hurt, anger, and confusion tied to Malachi's silence and disappearance from her life. Now, Freya is heading to New Zealand for Zombies 5. The returning cast includes MK, Sway, Julian, and Malachi, alongside a new cast entering the franchise for the first time.

After DZWCT, Freya and Malachi went their own seperate ways. Freya was off making her music and Malachi busy with his new girlfriend Malia.. But destiny has accepted its fate when both are told to come back for Z5, What do you think will happen? Will they get together? We're they ever together? Authors note: Guys in this story im making Frey 18 and Malachi 19 so it doesn't feel weird or not legal, btw im only writing this cause i miss my fralachi so much and im denial abt the Malia and Malachi situation :(

Two syndicates. One obsession. Freya Skye is the girl who has everything-power, money, and a body count to match. Malachi Barton is the man who takes everything he sees. When Malachi decides that Freya is his next prize, the underworld begins to burn. He wants her heart, her empire, and her total obedience. He's the Boss, but to her, he's so much more.

"freya skye knows who malachi barton is. everyone does. they've crossed paths, shared rooms, lived in the same world- but they've never really known each other. so when a stranger starts texting her, it's easy to talk. easy to open up. easy to trust someone who doesn't expect anything from her. he listens. he understands. he sees the parts of her no one else notices. and somewhere between late-night conversations and secrets she's never said out loud- she falls. there's just one problem. the boy she's been telling everything to is the same boy she thought she only knew from a distance. and some lies don't just break trust- they break everything."

Freya Skye has her life under control. Good grades. Loyal friends. No unnecessary drama. And definitely no more complicated relationships. Malachi Barton is the exact opposite. He's sarcastic, reckless, and somehow always at the center of trouble. Most people assume he doesn't care about anything-especially not school, rules, or what anyone thinks of him. So when Freya and Malachi start getting thrown together more and more, it should be simple. Ignore each other. Avoid the tension. Pretend the spark between them isn't there. Except pretending gets harder when teasing turns into flirting... arguments turn into late-night conversations... and the line between enemies and something else starts disappearing faster than either of them expected. Their friends see it coming from a mile away. Freya refuses to admit it. Malachi pretends it doesn't matter. But when two people crash into each other this hard, walking away isn't exactly an option. And some feelings? They happen way too fast to stop.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐚 𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬. 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭. 𝐑𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧. 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐚 𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝. 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥, 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝. 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬? 𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫, 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐝. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐚 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩