Aurora Kensington has spent years trying to silence the voice in her head-the one that sounds too much like Briar Holloway. The girl who was once her best friend. The girl who came out to her. The girl she pushed away. Now eighteen, Aurora is desperate to prove she's everything she's supposed to be: a good daughter, a devoted Catholic, normal. But no matter how hard she prays, no matter how many rules she follows, she can't shake the feeling that something inside her is broken. And when she sees the lights on in the Holloway house for the first time in years, something deep in her chest stirs. She doesn't know Briar is back. Not until she turns around at a party and finds her standing there. Briar never planned to return to Chapelwood, but with her family drowning in debt and her grandmother's health failing, she had no choice. She tells herself she doesn't care about Aurora anymore-that she only came to this party because she thought it'd be funny. But the second their eyes meet, the past slams into her like a tremor. Old wounds. Old feelings. Ones that never truly faded. Because "love" (if you can call it that) like theirs doesn't disappear. It fractures. It festers. It trembles under the weight of everything unsaid. And if they're not careful, it might just swallow them whole. But none of it truly matters anyway. Not unless Aurora is willing to face the truth about herself. A story about love, sin, and the thin line between devotion and obsession.

FORGIVING 6 │❝ She Is The Gold. His Gold. ❞ joey lynch ﾒ oc fmc. written by juilet. On the windswept edge of Ballylaggin, Fiadh Delaney lives in the suffocating silence of a home fractured by her father's war. To the town, she is the "Golden Girl" in floral dresses and scuffed boots-a vision of purity. But Fiadh is a runner, outpacing shadows and bleeding her truth onto paper. For ten years, she has sent her soul to the town's most dangerous wreckage: Joey Lynch. She signs every secret with three lethal words: P.S. I Love You. Joey is a storm of bruised knuckles and defensive fires, a boy the world gave up on. He lives for her ink, consuming her "gold" in a way that feels sickeningly wrong yet keeps his heart beating. He is the dirt; she is the heaven he isn't allowed to enter. He knows he is poison, and he's prepared to be the monster she fears just to keep her light from dimming. But when Fiadh intervenes to protect a new girl at school, they finally collide. It isn't a meeting; it's a brutal, bone-deep wreck. Joey tries to push her away, terrified his darkness will stain her, but Fiadh isn't afraid of the shadows she's lived in them too. The walls Joey spent a lifetime building finally shatter when he sees her in a rain-drenched street, holding his shamed mother with a tenderness Ballylaggin doesn't possess. In that moment, he realizes the terrifying truth: Fiadh Delaney isn't just a girl from a mailbox. She is an angel who walked out of heaven to find him in the dirt-the only war he is finally willing to lose. © clairebiggs 𓋰 2026 ›

𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐁𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄, 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 what happens when healing looks like chaos and love shows up wearing a football jersey? pretty girls. ruined reputations. the kind of boy who turns apologies into art. she's the secret with glitter in her veins. a quinn by name. a cautionary tale by design. he's the golden boy with too much want and nowhere to put it. ✦ 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣. 𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮. ✦ 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 - vox u's golden boy. chaos in cleats. a smile that ruins everything. raised on frat games & forgiveness. crowned king of a kingdom that never made room for silence. until her. 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐧 - doesn't need saving. she's done being palatable. wears mary janes with her fairy skirts. knows how to disappear in a crowd. everyone talks about what was taken from her. no one asks what's left. but milo sees her. not as a warning sign. not as a broken thing. as a girl who already knows how to burn. 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧: she came here to vanish. he won't let her. ⸻ 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙩 𝙖 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚. 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙩 𝙖 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜. ⸻

𝕴𝗚𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 13 │❝ Marissa Was Tied To My Soul. ❞ johnny kavanagh ﾒ oc fmc. written by nai. ⋆˙⟡ plot by clairebiggs. cover by clairebiggs.