Cigarettes, lilac skies and poetry at 3am: sixteen-year-old Pietro ''Pit'' Rossi knows the adrenaline of feeling empty and infinite at the same time. With the reputation of a goofy idiot who doesn't care about anything at all, getting held back at school doesn't seem like a problem. But it is. Because Pit cares about everything, and he always cares too much. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

|| a featured story || Aurora never planned on spending her final month alive falling in love. When she meets Gus, a curious boy who is all too eager to waste away the days with her, she finds herself trading in her month of solitude for a month with him instead. Under the summer sun, they promise each other a forever they don't have. All they have is August, and they try to make it enough. [Features a commissioned bonus chapter for the JCPenny #DreamPromposal contest] __________________________ Alex Light © All rights reserved 2018

Trust wasn't something that came easily to Mae and it wasn't something that she had ever planned on changing. Her heart, enveloped inside a wall of thorns like a single rose, was the only thing she was afraid of losing. Though, when the alluring "bad-boy", Danny Riches from across the hall catches her eye, she finds herself dropping her guard. Her hands burned from the touch of past experiences, her eyes stung from the memories of heartbreak, her stomach turned at the idea of falling in love. A battle of mixed emotions swarming in her mind, causing her to play a game of choosing what Mae wants and what Mae deserves. Whatever happened, she was prepared for the boy with heaven in his eyes, to make her life a living hell. - ☞ This story & the characters involved are entirely fictional and all rights belong to me. Please do not copy or recreate this story in any way, thank you. This story is ideal for young adults (14+), but all ages above and beyond are welcome!! - 29.04.2018 ranks: #12 in slowburn | 22.12.19 #12 in enemiestolovers | 16.06.18 #3 in yafiction | 27.12.19 #35 in friendstolovers | 23.11.18 #2 in neighbors | 22.11.18 #51 in ya | 23.11.18 #195 in teenromance | 23.11.18 #200 in trust | 23.11.18 #356 in youngadult | 23.11.18