DREW ELLIS painfully remembers the parents who suddenly left her in the care of her older brother after a car accident ripped them from her life, and she also remembers the haunting memory of her brother clearly. It had been roughly two years since he had tragically passed away. Truly alone, Drew has no choice but to move in with her alcoholic, abusive boyfriend. BENJI WALKER lives alone in solitude and hardly ever leaves his apartment. Despite graduating from high school a few years earlier, he has yet to immerse himself in preparing for the real world. Depression threatens to ruin his life and he resorts to alcohol as his saving grace. Witnessing Drew's boyfriend's verbal attack on her from the balcony of his apartment, Benji saves the frail girl and promises her a place to stay as long as she doesn't ask him any questions. Will Drew be able to keep her mouth shut and not ask questions? Or will she abandon Benji once she finds out who he really is? WARNING: This story deals with heavy issues, such as depression, abuse, and suicide. Please be careful if these could trigger unwanted emotions from you.

"You give reason to my name." "And you to mine." ----- Iridessa Belle Sinclair always thought of herself as an ordinary girl. She had nothing special that would differentiate her from a group. All she had was a head of what she thought was ordinary dirty blonde hair, along with ordinary lifeless dead blue eyes in which she hid behind a pair of spectacles. There was only one thing worse than being ugly in Crescent Grove High and that was to be ordinary. Her schoolmates stood out easily - no matter for good or for bad - but she was just there, just existing. It wasn't until the transfer of a new student did Iridessa get a new insight into life. Apollo Hunt, the paparazzi's favorite bad boy, rebel, and heartbreaker that had been in jail too many times. After his parents drew the last straw, they shipped him over to California to be in his relatives' care. It was purely accidental did he bump, or literally knockdown, the innocent Iridessa that had been hidden away too well under the radar of anyone even barely beautiful. Curious of the mysterious and quiet, yet sharp-tongued student, Apollo sought out to know more about Iridessa, in which in the end promising to make her pretty. All because he thought she was simply beautiful. ----- Highest Rank Teen Fiction: #28

Soren McKinin; the disappointment of the family, the child his parents wished did not belong to them, the type fathers warned their daughters not to date. Anger issues, a heartless brute that got into fights and saw the world as dark grey, helpless and pointless lump of rock. He was incapable of happiness, of love. So Soren would fall, he'd fall unnoticed and unwanted. He would fall just like snow. [Book 1 of the Flammable Hearts series] - # winner of the "Best Bad Boy" Award "It awakens feelings in you that you never knew you could feel." PUBLISHED FULLY ON WATTPAD