[LGBT+, Short Story, Teen Fiction, Romance] [Completed] "If I was a flame, he was the whole damn fire" A story of friendship, young love and tragedy. The story of Noah and Casimir Part 1 published - 1st January 2018 Completed - 15th February 2018

I saw it happen out of the corner of my eye. A dark-clothed, hooded person jumped in front of an oncoming car. I reacted on instinct, saving him from impact. Once safe on the pavement, I learned that he was someone from my past. Someone I had once inflicted pain upon, someone I'd failed back in college. Now might be the perfect time to try and make it all up to him-if that is even possible after what I've done and with his own suicidal tendencies.

"What do you want to be when you're older?" "Dead." * Zaki Kealoha has had a difficult life, ever since his father killed his mother before taking his own life. Zaki has never fit in, never had a true friend. He doesn't see a need for a friend, because he simply wants to leave this world. Reese Callaghan is more than mad when his dad moves their family down to Beaufort, North Carolina from upstate New York his senior year of high school. He figures this school is going to be just like his last one, full of people he can't stand. That is until he sees a boy with butterfly tattoos on his neck, and pen marks on his arm. Reese desperately tries to help Zaki, wanting him to realize there is a point in staying in this world.

The past is always out to bite us in the ass. Seth was a previous gang member and did things any gang member would do. He made mistakes. Although, did he deserve to be kidnapped and tortured for them? Revenge, it haunts us...