"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.

When the savage life meets modern day mindlessness........

**CHAPTERS 1-19 ARE PRIVATE. GO TO http://trillparadoxstory.tumblr.com/ to retrieve the links to each chapter.** Can you love thy enemy? Can people really wear genuine masks? Chelle "Jah" Merinne is the daughter to Colonel David Merinne II and Elena Grey, the ultimate Army couple. Jah takes on the true role of being an Army brat; put emphasis on 'brat'. Having a tough past, she's rude and takes it out on everyone. Fed up with her apathetic and sociopathic ways, she's sent to an alternative private school called Mercy Hall by her ill father. Bring her attitude with her, she bumps heads with the one and only, Chresanto August. What happens when the tables turn and she questions her feelings about Chresanto? Chresanto the ladies man of the eleventh grade. Any and every girl wants him, but he plays hard to get. He likes to be around everyone; everyone except Jah. He hates her, and decides to plot to play with her heart. However, tables turn. When his old frenemy and wingman, Jacob Perez, comes to Mercy Hall with the intent to stir things up and get revenge, Chresanto is stuck questioning how he feels about Jah. Can he bring out the real her? Can the web of deceit Jacob creates bring these two into real love?

"Being a sex therapist ain't all it's cracked up to be. Business is business." - Dr. August.

Tiffani Wilson is not your average girl. At her school she is the girl who hair is weird. But she is MUTED. She can't speak after she saw a a horrible thing in her family. Then the new boy Ray Ray comes to school; he is the jokester at school and he meets Tiffani. He can't figure her out because she doesn't speak, then he starts to fall for her and he tries to get to talk again. BUT, A stalker is is obsessed with Tiffani and puts her in danger. Will Ray Ray be able to save her? Or will somone take Tiffani's voice... Forever.