Reth Santiago was your stereotypical leather-jacket-cladded delinquent. Through a strenuous bet to turn a good girl bad, his life collides with Clare Rogers, his best friend he abandoned without any explanation. After two years apart, their opposite lives are turned upside down and before long they are unraveling even the darkest of each other's secrets. Terrible things will come to surface, and the two must find trust in each other despite their pasts. Everything will change; but after the walls come down and the lies are sought out, will the good girl still trust the bad boy? Reth and Clare's thrilling and emotional romance is sure to leave you on the edge of your seat. _______________________ Highest Rank: #187 in Teen Fiction #1 in #SelfExpression I started writing this story when I was very young so please excuse any typos in advance. TRIGGER WARNING: This story involves talk of abuse, rape, sexual assault, and other subjects that could be sensitive to some readers. Please read with caution. Copyright © 2023 All Rights Reserved.

he never intended to fall in love, but love must have managed to find him. [cover credits to @chersonesse]

He smokes. He drinks. He deals with drugs. He uses women as toys. He beats up anyone who gets in his way--male or female. He breaks every rule and law. He is called Arsen Frasier. He is the original bad boy. And I failed to understand that reality; I failed to stay away from him. I failed to lock my heart from my childhood sweetheart.

He takes his other hand putting my hair behind my ear. Why is he doing this? He slowly brings his lips to my ear. I can feel his lips barely touching the top of my ear making me suck in a sharp breath. "I like knowing you're scared of me" He whispers. His breath hits my ear and fans out to my neck. I shiver at his words. He stays that way for a moment before sliding his hand down my forearm and slowly pulling his head away. Our bodies still touching, he looks down at me with a smirk on his lips before he lets me go and walks away without another word. ~~~~ He is not the same person anymore. He has secrets. With him in her life, it is just a bittersweet tragedy.

I was pushed onto the side of the car roughly. I gasped at the impact. "Oh, you hate me?" He asked as we both breathed heavily. He had me pinned between him and the car. His warm breath waved on my neck sending cold chills down my body. "Don't you ever say that again." He growled. I closed my eyes and looked down, afraid of his tone. "I know you Jamie...better than anyone-even Rick. That's funny huh? I know you more than your best friend?" He said breathlessly as I tried to push him off of me. *********************************************************************************** Jamie isn't your average girl, she's into car races, sports, and is constantly finding her way into trouble. She has a bad past that no one knows about except her best friend Rick. When Jamie moves back to her childhood home she is miserable. With her next door neighbor being her biggest bully, and her brother's best friend how will she survive? Bring in all your brother's friends, and high school, and you have a huge problem! Jamie falls hard for the boy she can't have, and is constantly hearing lectures to stay away from him by her brother Eric, and his friends. But, when secrets, and feeling are revealed everything changes.

Benjamin Herveaux is my twin brother's enemy. Cole hated him since the incident in middle school and till now, he hasn't dropped the subject and still despise him. I have no problem with Benjamin to be honest and thinks he's a pretty cool guy, but I have to side with Cole on this one cause he's been my other half since birth. Rumours were going around the school about Benjamin liking me and an accident happen between us at a party... A good one but risky in my opinion if my brother finds out. From that point, I realized I'm starting to like Ben more and more and went behind Cole's back which was bad but I didn't care. I'm willing to risk my relationship with my brother just for his enemy and I know Cole will never forgive me for doing this to him... I'm torn between my brother and Benjamin.

Nell Watson just can't seem to get it right. Her parents treat her coldly no matter what she does and the one member of her family she could count on, her younger sister Paige, has turned her back on Nell. Now, everything's changing and Nell is starting to think that maybe perfect isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when she starts slipping up...and liking it. Gray West is not a guy you want to mess with but Nell can't seem to stop herself from losing her famous cool around him. Maybe a little imperfection is all she needs.

Since she was 10 years old Kendall's mother had abused her and her father had never noticed it. After eight years of abuse, one day her father walked in on her mother violently beating her. He called the cops and had her mother immediately put in jail and Kendall's father moved them away from her hometown. He never wanted Kendall's mother to get out of jail and find them but he knew that one day she would be out. In her new hometown Kendall meets an array of new people and her guard is up. Since the abuse she has never let her guard down but when she meets a particular guy she lets her guard down and she's afraid. What will happen and how will she survive?

"You can call me daddy." "You cannot be fucking serious." __________ "This is a weird part of the internet, I don't like this place." - Michael Clifford, 2020.