Ten different lives. Two boys. One night that'll bring them all together. Sixteen year old Nosa is okay with being a loner. He doesn't have social anxiety-- he's Catholic and his mum promised you can't love Jesus and have a disorder. He's just weird and he's not good at talking to people but that doesn't mean there's something wrong with him. It does mean that he and Irekan could never be friends. Irekan's parents moved them back to Nigeria to straighten him up-- literally. Being Nigerian and queer has never been easy but now he has to at least try to 'ungay' himself to keep his family together. And that means no falling in love with Nosa's stupid face. Two boys fall in love over novels, anime and rock music that's definitely going to get one of them killed. ❀Winner: 2022 Pride Awards Teen Fiction Category❀ ❀2nd Place Winner: 2022 Pride Awards❀ ❀Featured on the AmbassadorsNG reading list❀ ❀Featured on Stories Undiscovered August 2022 reading list❀ ❀Featured on AmbassadorsAF reading list❀ __Highest Rankings__ #1 wattpadnigeria (3/08/2022) #1 Africanbook (8/05/2022) #1 Africanlgbt (8/05/2022) #5 Blackboys (12/05/2022) #2 Nigerianbook (15/07/2022) #13 Young Adult Fiction (23/06/2024) **This is a bl and it features multiple queer characters. If that's not your speed, please do not read. ***Although this book is written in English, it contains many pidgin English and Nigerian sentences, phrases and slangs. Feel free to comment if you don't really understand the meaning of something.

"𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙤 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙪𝙨." -/- Josiah Mere was mentally ill. He knew and understood that and he wanted to fix it. He wanted to be better and he also wanted a change so that was one of the reasons why he agreed to go on a two week trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco with sixteen other kids he never met, a trip planned by his therapist. He just didn't expect to find love in the midst of that. Elijah Tripley was depressed. It was obvious and apparent but regardless, he didn't want to stay like that so that's why he decided to do something out of his comfort zone and intended to go on a trip filled with people he didn't know and wouldn't necessarily want to know. But Josiah came into his life and uprooted that plan instantly, even if they did get on the wrong foot in the beginning. - this is ILL LOVERS and I hope you all enjoy <3 - (𝑴𝑰𝑳𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑵𝑬𝑺) #10 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 #197 𝒊𝒏 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 #84 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒚