Stormi. She is her name. Her mother never thought she'd grow up being the complete opposite of her. Her father always made sure no one could play with her. Her uncle and cousin protect her. Her brother rides for her. Her best friend makes her soft. She had everything, but she felt like something was missing. Something or someone to calm her and bring the best of her out.

xolani and two have been each other's person since they were kids running around third ward and trading inside jokes nobody else got. over a decade of history between them: sleepovers, middle of the night phone calls, the kind of comfort within each other that made everything else feel like silly noise. they know each other in that deep, embarrassing way: each other's nervous habits, the laughs that don't come out right, the silences that don't need filling. it was never supposed to be more than that. but somewhere between growing up and growing into themselves, the lines started blurring. xo starts noticing things she has no business noticing; the way he looks at her when she's not paying attention, the way his hand always finds her without thinking, but she buries it. they've got something too good to gamble with, and she knows it. what she doesn't know is that two's been fighting the same feelings too. longer than she has, way quieter than she'd ever expect from him. he's been loving her in the margins for years. carefully, willfully, without ever letting it show. until one night it just... slips out. i've loved you in quiet ways for so long... i'on know how to be anything else when you around, xo. and now it's out there. sitting between them, too big to ignore and too damn real to take back. they've survived everything together: loss, distance, the messy in between years of figuring out who they were as they grew up. but this? this is the one thing that could actually change everything. the question isn't whether they love each other-they're both well aware of the answer to that. whether they're brave enough to stop pretending they don't, though, is up to nobody but them.

Imani and SaMeer were once childhood best friends, inseparable before life split them apart. Years later, college brings them back together, but the past they never fixed is still sitting between them. STARTED 04/23/26

Kason "Khotic" Brewster never planned on living long. At seventeen, he buried both of his parents in the same week. His mother died instantly in a car crash. His father held on just long enough to make Kason promise one thing before he passed. Take care of your brother and sister. So that's exactly what he did. Twelve years later Khotic is the man the streets call when things get ugly. Feared. Respected. Untouchable. Everything he does is for the two people depending on him to make it out of the life he's stuck in. He's content with that. Until Beauty Cardwell crashes into his world. Bee is nothing like the women Khotic usually deals with. She's a twenty-five-year-old brain surgeon, a child prodigy who finished school before most people finished learning who they were. She's blunt, literal, and socially awkward in ways people don't always understand. Diagnosed with high-functioning autism, Bee doesn't believe in pretending to be something she's not. She says exactly what she means. And for some reason... Khotic likes that. What starts as a chance meeting turns into something neither of them expected. Bee sees the man behind Khotic's reputation. The older brother trying to keep his promise. The boy who never got the chance to grieve. And Khotic sees something in Bee that the world keeps missing. But loving a man like Khotic means stepping into a life Bee was never meant to be part of. Enemies. Loyalty. Violence. The kind of danger that doesn't care how smart you are. And Khotic knows one thing for sure. Good girls like Beauty Cardwell aren't supposed to fall for men like him.

Six kids in one house, and somehow he still felt invisible. Taye was always working, always stressed, always trying to hold everything together but never really seeing him. The others were the same. Busy. Distant. Like surviving mattered more than anything else. And maybe it did. But that didn't stop it from messing him up. So he learned quick don't ask for anything, don't expect nothing, and don't let nobody get close enough to leave. That's just how he became Kairo. Rude. Distant. Unbothered. Or at least...that's what everybody thought. Now suddenly, things were different. Taye checking on him. Asking questions. Looking at him like he actually mattered. It didn't sit right. "Where was all that before?" Kairo muttered one night, staring up at the ceiling, phone in his hand but not really looking at it. Because care-real care-was something he didn't know how to trust. And that wasn't even the worst part. The worst part...was him. Kairos best friend. The one person who always stayed. Always showed up. Always saw him even when Kairo tried his hardest to push him away. That was the problem. Because Kairo wasn't supposed to feel like this. Not about him.

If you don't like toxic shit don't read previously hood love story changed it to chaotic bc this shit is chaotic asf Short story with squeal coming soon not edited don't mind mistakes #1-Freaks (11/10/24)

"Siah do you even still wanna be my best friend" "Shawty im forever yo friend "

short lil something. Saint and Loyal have ruled their city together for years as best friends and powerful kingpins. But as their bond deepens, hidden feelings begin to surface. Loyal's protective nature and Saint's growing awareness create a tension neither can ignore. In a world where power is everything, love might be their biggest risk.

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Perfect girl. Not so perfect boy. Chanel Johnson is one of the most popular girls in the school, she's smart, and a cheerleader, her family is also pretty much rich. But underneath that perfect image, she longs for something that can fill a missing void in her life. Rowan Black is the school's designated "loser bad boy " he sells drugs to save up and move out of his step dads house. He's from a bad neighborhood and only goes to that school for his best friend Kyree. Who happens to be Chanel's best friend's twin brother. Chanel can't stand him and Rowan can't stand to be away from her. But of course he would never say that out loud. Instead he acts like a dick towards her and tries his best to get over this unrequited love, But what happens when they start spending more and more time together?