WARNING: CONTAINS DRUG USE AND MILD SEXUAL SCENES ___ Matt Sanders lives with two of his best friends, Zacky Baker and Jimmy Sullivan. After discovering the mess that his sister had gotten herself into, he offered her a place to stay, with him. Ashley Sanders was once an A grade student, with a perfect life. Best friends with Jimmy Sullivan, and close with her parents and her older brother, she was the last person you would expect to sucumb to the horrors of drug addiction. Her parents and her old friends soon give up on her, not wanting to watch her self destruct. Matt is the only one who truely really cares for her. Until she promises her ex-best friend and current enemy, Jimmy, that she'll come clean. Prior to this, she accidently sleeps with her brothers best friend, also known as Synyster Gates. The guitarist for her brothers band - Avenged Sevenfold. They agree to become friends with benefits. Ashley has one simple rule, don't fall in love with each other. But with her whole life turning around again, can she play by her own rules?

Sophie Miller walks around like a ghost. She is badly bullied by Nicole and her friends. They make her life a misery along with her abusive mother, they force her into a life of depression. She then meets her new English teacher, Mr Haner. He is charming and seems to be the only person who cares about her. He tries to help her through the struggles of her life and the deeper he gets the more he realises he is falling for her. The feelings are mutual even if it is forbidden. However, Brian has a dark and dangerous past that he has fought for years to try and overcome but it soon catching up to him. Will Brian outrun his past and can they ever be truly be together? Or will their world come crashing down as they struggle having a forbidden romance?