a story about falling in and out of love. Bear with me, this is my first book! Book 1: Published 02/2020, Completed 04/2022 Book 1 Shut Up & Listen (complete) __/ When the one secret that kept childhood best friends Cole and Cobe at a distance is finally revealed, they become closer than ever in both the best and worst ways. Book 2 Shut Up & Listen: A Little Late (complete) __/ New relationships shed light on old forgotten ones, bringing up heartbreak and trauma. When familial strings long frayed are tied back together, will it the knot hold or will the effort be a little too late? Book 3 Shut Up & Listen: The Nullification of Black (complete) __/Feeling wind-like, Lonnie aka Black fends for himself in this long awaited growth spurt. History is revealed. Reputations are put to a halt! Friendships become love! Wounds are healed! But, something has to die for a new thing to thrive, right? Right?! no1 in #blacklit [12.16.2020-present] no2 in #detroit [12.31.2020] no1 in #celebrateblackstories [04.01.2021] no1 in #lukejames [09.04.2021] no4 in #socialissues[05.13.2022] no2 in #blackbxb[05.15.22] no1 in #urbanbxb [10.22.2022] no12 in #youngromance [11.23.2023]

"You're a tempest.... A violent windstorm. You ruin everything you touch, and you don't give a single damn about it. You're the reason why storms are named after people". Chresanto August had always managed to fall into the bad boy stereotype, you know, the mysterious past, and toned body with maybe a piercing or two and a couple tattoos. Of course, he's got a temper and walks the neighborhood streets and high school hallways like he owns the place. Chresanto's only ever met one person who could handle his personality, one person who could actually make him happy, and his name was Axel. Everything was perfect for Chresanto, until Axel died. Chresanto was never the one to mope and cry, he was the one to move on and forget, but he can't do that when one night, he runs into a boy who looks exactly like his dead boyfriend. He's never seen him before, well technically he has, because the boy who looks like Axel is a spitting image of him, he just goes by the name of Jacob Perez. Chresanto has never met Axel's twin brother, and it's apparent that Axel never talked about Chresanto to Jacob because Jacob Perez has no idea who Chresanto August is. So the question is; what happens now? Copyright: ForeverMindless247 2k16