Previously known as I Love You, Not. "THIS WAS ALL A JOKE TO YOU???!!!" I screamed. "Just to see if I love you? And if I do how much??" "I didn't know you were gonna overreact so much, calm down I was only making sure?" CALM DOWN??!!! "Making sure??!! You don't know how much I've been through in these two past months, you don't know how much I've cried, you don't know how much pain I've been through. You don't fucking know!" "Stop being so over dramatic. It's over. Even if it's only one sided love, now at least I know you love me." "That's were you're wrong, I LOVED you, I loved you until I found out what a cold, hearted monster you were, until I found out that you made me lived in sadness for your amusement, until I found out you were making a fool of me at laughing at me in front of your friends, and I lived through all this without saying a word, WHY???!!! Cause I loved you, but not anymore. Remember when I said I'll never give up on you? Well, I guess I was wrong, cause I'm done trying to make this work."

Ari Callahan has no idea how to talk to boys -- or how to talk to anyone for that matter. Enter Zac, the cute new guy in town who won't stop texting her. But is his interest real, or does he have a hidden agenda? ***** Found as a young child washed up on the beach, 17-year-old Ari Callahan has never uttered a word out loud to anyone -- not even her adoptive family. Psychologists have diagnosed her with a condition called selective mutism, but Ari can't help identifying with her namesake character, Ariel, the little mermaid in the fairytale whose voice was stolen by a sea witch. Mermaid-obsession aside, Ari's silence makes socializing tough. She's never had a boyfriend or been asked out on a date. Not until Zac, the confident new arrival in town, asks for her number. But Zac has his own reasons for texting with Ari. He's part of a movement to sabotage the artificial music app called SirenSong, threatening to render human singing obsolete. Zac's collaborators have scoured the globe in search of a singing voice perfect enough to break the SirenSong spell, and their search has led them straight to Ari's beachside town. Will her relationship with Zac help Ari find her voice and unlock the secrets of her origins? Or will he use her and leave her high and dry? Title: Ari and Zac (formerly The Mermaid Hypothesis) Content Warning: This story contains references to selective mutism, suicidal thoughts, and early childhood trauma.

**Unedited, messy & with lots of mistakes. But you will still swoon if you give it a chance lol (but you've been warned)** After a bad breakup, Emily moves across the world to find herself. Getting involved in a relationship is the last thing she wants, but that changes when she meets a handsome stranger, who's perfect in every way, except one thing: he's the Prince of England. Prince with Benefits is a contemporary fairy tale filled with the delights and dramas of falling in love with the man of everyone's dreams. Thank you for the cover @moon_greyyy