Darby Kale is not the nicest person. He never has been. Why? Well, it all comes down to his height. Being a five foot nothing guy is hard. Especially when everyone refuses to let him have peace about it, ever. During the summer of his seventeenth, Darby just so happens to meet a very handsome, and very tall guy under strange circumstances. Will charm and good looks be enough to break through Darby's shell? Or will he still be cold and surly by summer's end? Read to find out!

Meet Azel, a crazy, random, clumsy 17 year old with a completely oblivious personality. Meet Alistair, a simply perfect, beautiful, loving 17 year old with a completely confusing personality. Add in some best friends, bullies, heartache and love, and you'll have both of their lives.

Reign, a high school heart-breaker has never felt any affection towards anyone he dated. He thought there was something wrong with him until his best friends Drew and Floyd suggested that he could be gay. He's scared to accept that though, after all his dad's a major homophobe. Being raised from a rich household and parents that are hardly there make it difficult for Reign to have a normal family. They just had a child so they had someone to give their wealth to when they died and Reign knows it. He knows that he can't continue to become a famous runner like he hoped for. His dad already has everything planned out for him right up to his death bed. Not to mention the completely white straight fantasy wedding. What makes it worse is that he falls head over heels for no one other than his teacher. It couldn't be the boy down the street, or the nerd? No, it had to be his maths teacher. The one that's strictly off limits. Like Reign ever let something like that stop him though. Will Reign rule this whole experience out of a crush or will he learn to live, fight, love and accept who he really is?

“There are three types of people,” he murmurs while gazing at her. “Those who come face to face with death unintentionally, ones who don’t have any control over it, and ones that greet it with open arms blatantly, which is you, darling. And it’s a pity,” He crouches down in front of her and his filthy hands rest on her knees. “I’ll give you two options to choose from,” he says before faintly smiling. “You can either be the one to die or you can be the one to kill.”