Tadgh lynch and Bethany Gibson promised to be best friends forever. Until trauma hit the both of them and drifted apart.

Four years ago, the fire took everything. At fourteen, Tadhg Lynch is a weapon on the hurling pitch and a terror in the hallways of Tommen College. He wears a cocky grin like armor and wields lethal sarcasm like a shield. With his younger brothers safely tucked away in the luxury of the Kavanagh mansion, Tadhg should be at peace. Instead, he is drowning in a silent, suffocating depression, quietly slipping down the exact same dangerous path of addiction that nearly destroyed his older brother, Joey. He is a boy running on fumes, waiting for the match that will finally set him ablaze. Then came Aisling. Fierce, hotheaded, and burdened by a devastating past, Aisling transfers to Tommen carrying the heavy ghosts of her parents' tragic deaths. Living in a cramped apartment with her older brother and his girlfriend, she protects her fragile, grieving heart behind walls of pure defiance and an explosive temper. She doesn't do friends, she doesn't do pity, and she definitely doesn't do Tadhg Lynch. But when their chaotic worlds collide at the start of Third Year, the masking stops. Aisling sees straight through Tadhg's untouchable swagger, and Tadhg recognizes the hollow, dark ache hidden behind her fiery outbursts. They are mirrors of the same shattered glass, bound by a trauma that threatens to swallow them both whole. In a world determined to break them, can two damaged souls find a way to mend, or will they burn each other to the ground?

Tadhg Lynch was broken. Perhaps too broken for a boy of his age. After living a life of torment, abuse, and emotional and physical turmoil, his world had tilted on its axis when his father, Teddy Lynch, set their home on Elks Terrace ablaze, murdering both himself and Tadhg's mother, Marie Lynch. After a heroic rescue of him and his little brothers by Johnny Kavanagh, Irish rugby superstar and his sister's boyfriend, he was finally provided with a loving home, parents, and the stability he, and his five siblings, should've recieved from the start. From then on, you could've said that Tadhg had finally begun living a semi-normal life. That's until he met her. Bethany Gibson. The little sister of Gerard "Gibsie" Gibson that would have his ego on a leash, and his heart in her hands. Bethany shouldn't have made it after falling off the edge of a yacht with her father and brother, Joe and Gibsie, following soon after in 1995. At least, that's what the adults had said when they thought she wasn't listening. Her father, who didn't make it out like her, haunted her dreams and thoughts wherever she went. Her father, the man who died trying to save her. The events of the haunting day of her brother's Holy Communion were nothing more than a blur. She was only a baby when everything had went down. But the guilt? The trauma from an event she could barely visualise? It weighed her down and submerged her in a sea that was more formidable than the one she'd almost died in ever could be. However, the monster created when she was a baby was not the only one weighing her down. A monster that was more near, more evil, more invasive, and the one that changed her from the bubbly, loveable girl she once was. The one that's long list of child victims did not stop at her.

••• Her story is untold, hidden by the strong facade she puts on every day. At first, he wanted to tear it down along with her, to ruin her. But maybe things don't go the way we want them to go. Olympia Holland is no one other, than the sister of Shane Holland. The drug dealer everyone dislikes and most fear. However, if you saw Olympia, you'd never guess those two are related. As she begins her new year at Tommen, she quickly learns about how fast rumours spread and how big of a mess they can make. For all she wants, she could be the biggest saint in the world, but in their eyes, they'd see her as the step sister of the guy that ruins lives and families. ••• Tadhg Lynch is no different than others. After hearing about the new girl, he decided to ruin her life, the way Shane almost ruined his brother's. Enemies to lovers. TW - might include body negativity, sh and sexual harassment

Tadhg Lynch is the third youngest Lynch sibling, and is trying to make it through his years of Tommen without being recognized as Joey Lynch, Shannon Lynch, and Johnny Kavanagh's little brother. He wants to make a name for himself, but that's difficult when you're constantly living under the shadow of the legacies before you. Now in his fourth year and with a reputation as the school troublemaker, Tadhg is learning that life can be lived even when you are dubbed as the "little brother," and that some things and people can know him for him. Leah Daly just moved to Cork, Ireland from America, and it's safe to say that she isn't too happy about uprooting her life in the middle of high school. Angry about her parents' sudden divorce, and being picked up with her dad to live in the middle of nowhere, Leah is dropped off to start her sophomore year, or fourth year as Ireland calls it, at Tommen College. Full of pretentious rugby stars and trust fund kids, Leah runs into Tadhg, who automatically intrigues her. What happens when the troublemaking screw up, and the angry teenage girl cross paths and find their worlds forever altered?

𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇,, 𝐅𝐢𝐚𝐝𝐡 𝐅𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧 doesn't want much- she's learnt not to expect it. Her dad's moved out and was replaced by her mam's new boyfriend. The youngest daughter sticks to herself at home, not muttering more than a 'hello' unless visitors are over. Then, they have to play happy families. It's an endless cycle of smiles and long sleeves. Everybody in her life has failed her. 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐡𝐝 𝐋𝐲𝐧𝐜𝐡 is free. He's safe. With a warm bed, home-cooked meals and a nosy family checking if he's okay. Yet, part of him was still stuck in that house. Where the fire of arguments and fists always lingered. Insomnia had taken over his nights, leaving him to run on spite and energy drinks. Snappy and unapologetically himself, and the fights in school to prove it. 𝐎𝐑,, 𝐀 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐲 brought them together. Fiadh was on edge her whole first day at Tommen. She was used to being terrorised in school, so all she could do was wait for it to arrive. But, it didn't. All that appeared was the boy who sat next to her in Maths. He pulled her out the toilet queue and introduced her to his friends. Noticed the chocolate bar she was rustling in her pocket and asked if they could share it. From that day on, he picked up a hammer and broke down her walls. Revealing the bubbly, scared girl underneath. Will Tadhg be able to face his trauma in order to save her, or fall victim to her rehearsed lies?

Éabha Gibson, the girl who always longed for her brother to choose her just once over his childhood best friend. After loosing her twin sister and dad due to a traumatic drowning incident, Éabha never figured out what life she wanted and how on earth she was meant to get by. After finding out her brother was the reason two members of her family fell into the water, she wanted to nothing to do with him. Now starting at Tommen, Éabha slowly realizes she should cherish what family she has left. Tadgh Lynch, the Lynch who hasn't quite found his person yet. Sean and Ollie had each other. Shannon had Johnny. Joey had Aoife. His parents were six feet under. Now living this fancy new life, Tadgh isn't sure how to deal with it. He's hot-headed and acts without thinking. He acts on his aggression. Now it's their first day of first year in Tommen College. They both just want to be someone's first choice.

For all of Gigi's life she's forced away all the bad and radiated nothing but goodness. That is until one fateful night when she just can't take it anymore. A bottle of vodka in one hand and the other gripping a ledge, she promises herself that finishing what should have happened all those years ago will release her and those she loves from so much pain. Joey Lynch does not need any more stress in his life. Both he and his siblings were finally free from the hellscape that was their lives and are now prospering in their new foster home with the Kavanaughs. He's sober, going to a good school, and finally starting to feel like a person again or is he? After seeing his ex at a party he finds himself needing something to quiet his mind, quiet that specific voice. What he didn't need was to find a girl clutching a bottle of vodka as she sat on the very bridge he once had. He knows her. How could he forget a girl like her? A promise for a promise. Secret for a secret. He just wants her to come down and she wants him to go away. Two 6s find one another after many years of pain and find a form of peace in each other's darkness. The question is: Who will break their promise first?

Everyone remembers the Lynch fire. Everyone remembers the bodies carried out. But no one remembers the boy left standing in the middle of it all. Tadhg Lynch isn't the golden Lynch boy. He isn't the baby who got shielded from the worst, or the oldest who carved a new life with a family of his own. He's the one in between. The one who saw everything, took the blows meant for his younger brothers, and carried scars no one wanted to look too closely at. Brave. Bold. Mouthy. A joker when he can manage it. And broken enough that nothing ever really sticks. Bethany Gibson is the girl who shouldn't have lived. She was three when the water took her under, when her father gave his life to save hers. She grew up in the shadow of grief, wrapped in the protection of a brother who bled for her in ways she only half understands. Sweet, funny, too kind for her own good-Bethany knows what it is to survive, but not yet what it means to live. When Bethany collides with Tadhg at Tommen, it's fire meeting oxygen-sharp words, sharp looks, a pull neither of them can shake. He's crude, cruel with his jokes, too much for anyone to handle. She's soft where he's jagged, sunshine where he's ash. He calls her Barbie. She calls him an arsehole. And somewhere between the laughs and the fights, they start to see the cracks in each other. But fixing what's shattered isn't simple. Not when trauma festers. Not when grief never loosens its grip. Not when love means putting your hands into the fire all over again. Funny. Raw. Heartbreaking. Fixing 9 is a story about the girl who wouldn't stop caring, the boy who didn't know how to be cared for, and the brutal, beautiful mess of trying to save each other when the world already tried to burn or drown you alive.