There's so many positive 4 letter words: Love Like Hope Care Life Then there's negative: Hate Evil Dead For once in her life Desdemona wanted to hear negative. The word in itself: Negative. Instead she heard positive. Her whole world came tumbling down when she found out she was positive for HIV/AIDS. She just wants to experience that four letter word, that thing called: L O V E

"14th and Schaefer avenue is listed as the Number #1 dangerous city and most filled gang area in the United States. But what happens when you find out that a majority of your family members are the one's in these gangs? Well, my name is Joshua. Only being the age of 18, I know all about the good, the bad, the ugly, and the UGLIER." -Josh.

Chanelle is a 16 year old girl. Tan skin, 5'2",long dark brown curls that hang down her back, has the whole world in front of her. Has a great home life, gets the good grades in school and has amazing friends. No one would ever think she would end up with a Thug. What happens when, Lexis, Big time thug,16 years old, light skin, short dark hair, 6'3", can get any girl of his dreams and runs the streets of Oakland, crosses her path?

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and for these two, their lives have been planned down to a science. For Wylan Olson, being yourself can be very stressful. Since she was young, her emotions have always been backwards. The embodiment of 'tears of joy,' that laughs to keep from crying, not many people understand her struggle. Mostly because she barely understands it herself, but she's making it...barely. All she wants to do is make something out of herself, and she's willing to work for it. Kwame Okari has been raised to be perfect. His parents' strict expectations at son leave no room for friendships, which they regard as frivolous. Their only concern is for him to be Ivy League, and he cannot afford to disappoint. He is a boy on a mission, with a clear objective: be first. And there's only one person standing in his way-Wylan. As the two develop a better understanding of each other, competing agendas complicate their relationship forcing them to decide which is more important: attraction or ambition, satisfaction or success, friendship or fruition, and lead them to wonder if one has to be mitigated for the other.

After getting into a fight that went viral almost ruining his career, August Alsina's manager D calls on Jazmine to be his publicist. Can Jazmine fix August's image and find love in the process?

The sleek, two door Mustang races through the empty streets of Los Angeles at dusk as Kash tries to get away from the bright red Land Rover that stays on his tail as he cuts corners and swaps paint with parked cars. Kash looked next to him and in the passenger seat was Cammie Frederick. Highland County University's most intelligent student but also the most unnoticed. Not too long ago did he break into her home and take her without her consent. Now he's driving her into her new life with him. A life with Organized Criminals, the gangsters with expensive suits and ties not sagging pants. What is she getting herself into...more like what she is being dragged into.

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