Book Two of the Growing Pains series. If you haven't read the first book and intend to, click away. There are major spoilers from the first chapter! Newly turned adult Will Simmons leaves his fragmented family life behind and moves to Dublin. With a sports scholarship to college, a position on the National Irish Volleyball team, a relationship with his former teacher Gabriel, and two firm friends to accompany him, Will is ready to get on with his life. But the perfect life he's been craving doesn't feel like he thought it would, and Will stubbornly buries his feelings of unease beneath obsessive exercise and even more obsessive calorie management. But his bottled feelings accumulate, pressurize--and he starts to crack.

"That's why you can't rely on prince charming, because your demons might even scare him away..." Giovanna Algarotti loves fairytales. David Sparrow hates them. Giovanna just wants to live her life. David just wants to end his. She can't seem to take control of her anxiety attacks. He's only in control when he's with her. Will the imperfect beauty fall for the perfectly messed up beast? Or will her prince charming steal her away before the beast can steal her heart? What will happen when Giovanna gets her fairytale, but it's nothing like she expected? Amazing cover done by crookedaydreamer ***Trigger warning-Some chapters contain suicidal thoughts and/or actions*** Fantasy #22 9/20/15

Playing a tune that I knew since I was a child. I expertly pressed the key correctly, not a single mistake. The beautiful sound coming from the grand piano echos in the room, it feels like it was taking me to another world where I can only imagine. Closing my eyes because that's the only thing that I can do. "I love you," I heard the man said and I stopped playing. "I can't love you," I replied not facing his direction. "I love you," his husky voice that I love, repeated. He was waiting for an answer but I don't have the intention. "I think it was love at first sight," he said. "That's funny," I said still not facing him, "Considering that I'm blind." A man who is a Mafia boss fell in love with a woman who is blind. A woman who is blind sees the true nature of the Mafia man. How can he protect the woman? How can she love the man? The woman who only see the dark and the man who is in the dark. A story that will take you on a roller coaster ride. .Copyright. You are not allowed to copy my story. Since I'm the author of the story I have all the legal rights. I don't own the picture of the story's cover so credits to the owner. Please respect the copyright rule. Thank you.

Have you ever met a rich family? The kind from the movies. You know with the enormous house and expensive cars and the extended driveway that has a fancy fountain? What about a rich boy? The kind from the big screen with the perfect hair who happens to be the owner and driver of a luxurious sports car, and a smile that makes your heart melt. Have you ever wondered if they actually have any flaws? Are they really that perfect? The life of a rich teenage boy is something most people envy, but perhaps it's not what it seems. Maybe the boy from the novels isn't perfect. Maybe the boy from the movies only shows what he's supposed to. Maybe his life is just a facade. The boy from the movies could be Will Lockwood, living the life most people dream of, surrounded by the type of people everyone just simply adores. However, the boy from the big screen may find himself living a not so perfect life when something, or someone, changes everything. Or Where rich boy Will Lockwood is the youngest of three brothers and happens to find himself in a tricky situation when he meets his oldest brother's best friend, Parker Hayes. COMPLETED #1 Gayfiction 04/02/21 #2 Boyxboy 12/10/21 #1 Gay 10/06/21

COMPLETED [boyxboy] After his religious mother kicks him out for being gay, Elijah Ellis moves in with his father, where his step-mother, step-brother, and half-sister also welcome him. Elijah aspires to continue doing what he loves and play hockey for his new school, but his past hookup with the closeted hockey captain, Fox Ridley, complicates things. While Elijah just wants to get through the season unscathed, Fox is hellbent on hating him. Elijah is unsure whether he will ever overcome Fox's hatred, or if he will remain on thin ice. ~171k words

Elijah Rosen, an introverted seventeen year old with a love for football, sneaks out almost every night to get away from the problems he faces during the day. He feels like his anxiety is taking over his life, and the only place he can go to escape it is the pitch black night right outside his window where he can be alone and let his thoughts run wild. But after he finds Adam Chang sitting at the bottom of an empty pool in the early hours of the morning with puffy red eyes and bruised hands, he begins to find comfort in something other than the dark. Only, Adam has a few problems of his own. And with pressure coming from his family, his friends, his school, and his own mind, Elijah isn't sure how he'll make it through the year. ------- "I think if you weren't here, I wouldn't be okay. I'd..." I trailed off, not wanting to say the words that we both knew were true. "Hey," he said softly, "I'm just glad I'm here, then." He started to let go of me, but I wrapped my arms around his neck and hugged him like I never had anybody else before. "I'm glad you are too." (featured by FreeTheLGBT: 1/13/2022)

Jonah Moshe knew working over Christmas break would be awful, especially at Happy's 24/7 Pharmacy, where he'd get to start his day in a dimly lit convenience store that smelled like cat food and cigarettes, listening to his co worker blab on for six hours straight. But then Nicky Haddad comes in. And he comes again. And again. And again. And suddenly, working the morning shift doesn't seem all that bad. (Double POV story)

After over a year of trying to get pregnant, Milo Katz is told that he is infertile and that the fertility treatments are not working. That fateful day sends the rest of his life spiraling, starting with his husband leaving and the consequences that follow. Being forced to give up his dreams of being a parent and no longer having a husband to turn to, Milo embraces his best friend, Ollie Bellamy. After all, they have been through everything together, going against what society told them was right in order to become who they are today. One thing leads to another, and before they can stop themselves, they are spiraling into something deeper than they ever intended.

Kaylen Lutyens. 19 years old. A stoic, reserved, architecture student with a shattered family. He thinks love is but a waste of emotions. Emerald Blake. 25 years old. A soft-hearted, loving, single, college professor with a six-year-old son. He desires that special someone who would stick by him forever. These two completely different people living in two completely different worlds, collide with each other in a closet and decide to make a deal that satisfies both of their physical needs. But how will that turn out to be- Sweet or Sour? // #1 in ManXMan (5March2019) #7 in gayfiction (23Jan2026) A stand-alone and a sequel to Bed Buddies. RECOMMENDATION: For people who've JUST read Bed Buddies, please read this around a week afterwards. // Completed on 25 January 2020

Alone at 28, Phillip Cameron has routines. He has a simple existence, a passion for gardening, and the same job he's held for years. His life is quiet and uneventful, and he's not really living at all. Gareth Lewis has responsibilities. Lots of them. As a newly graduated teacher, a drunken encounter changed his life forever. Now as a father of three and supporting a household, he's just struggling to keep it together. When change is thrust upon them, their lives will be altered forever. This story is complete including some bonus MPREG chapters following the Epilogue -- the story itself is not an MPREG, it was just done as fun at the urging of some friends.