The word 'match' can mean many things, like a matchbox, or a matching pair of socks. For Cole and Jonah, it refers to their soccer matches. However, match can also mean finding the right one. Will that be the case for these two? Illustration copyright © sugarfumescentral. © sugarfumescentral Disclaimer: This work is entirely fiction. Unless it's indicated, names of characters, team names and incidents in this novel are either created by the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblances of actual people, living or dead, along with actual events is purely coincidental.

Watson Young has always been a bright kid, no one could deny that, but even the most intelligent people can make the dumbest mistakes. Keep the dumbest secrets hidden. Watson was rather good at that, considering that no one knows about the stuff he deals with at home. Elijah Andrews, one of the wealthiest kids in the school, but doesn't necessarily describe Elijah, no, that describes his financial state. Elijah's not stupid, he knows his friends are pretty fake, seen the drooling stare with money in their eyes, blinding them from seeing Elijah as something more than walking money. Elijah had a busy schedule, which was probably why he never noticed Watson, the small cello player in the school's orchestra. He never saw the guy who sat in the back of his classes, never speaking a word to everyone. But neither did anyone else, if they had, maybe they would have noticed the bruises covering Watson's arms from a mixture of bullies and his drunken father. What happens when the school's wealthiest attendee notices the quiet cello playing boy with too many unexplainable bruises?

Dylan Brooks was basically the Golden Boy™ of Greenhill High School. He was co-captain of the soccer team, kept his grades up, and planned to become a marine biologist after college. What happens when the town's known player transfers to Greenhill and becomes Dylan's tutee? Will they bud heads or keep a professional relationship. Or maybe, just maybe, they become something more? [contains strong language]

*C O M P L E T E D* "This isn't like that stupid book, Oliver." "What do you mean by that?" "I mean this isn't a love story." - - - - Oliver Green is smart. With a dream of becoming a successful doctor, Oliver is always studying in hopes of attending Harvard medical school one day. A regular volunteer at the local animal shelter and a busy tutoring schedule keeps him busy. Benjamin Jones is an athlete. As captain and quarterback of the Eastside High School football team, he is well known as the 'it' boy of the school. Ben didn't think much of school, football was his entire life and all he could see himself doing in the future was playing at a D1 school before being drafted into the NFL. When Ben is in danger of being kicked off of the football team due to his slipping biology grade, Oliver is asked to tutor him. The unlikely pair get off to a rocky start, but as the two get to know one another, they find themselves never wanting tutoring to end. - - - - Top Rankings! #1 - lgbtfiction #1 - boyxboy #1 - nerdxjock #1 - nerd #1 - lgbtrights #2 - friendstolovers #2 - football ☆ #4 - lgbt ☆ #5 - tutoring #8 - teenfiction #10 - love #11 - gay #13 - tutor #13 - bxb

Every once and a while the universe throws a curve ball your way- testing your ability to take on anything. Sometimes that curveball is a person who comes into your life and just changes everything. How you look at the world. How music sounds to you. How you see people can even change. In the swampy summer of 2017 Cole Jackson was thrown one of these curve balls by the universe. This curve ball transformed Cole from a spoiled jock to a deeply caring person. And it all started at football practice.

[boyxboy] [#143 in teen fiction] [completed] *TW: Trauma, death, drugs, bullying, attempted suicide* His parents are drug addicts and alcoholics. His brother is in a gang. His sister doesn't talk much. He plays baseball and knows how to stand up for himself. What's one more thing added to the list going to do? A lot. Orion is gay, and that one little uncontrollable identity pushes him over the edge, when it should set him free. Cover thanks to @-normality Completed 12/16/2016 @ 4:49 PM EST

"I didn't know you had friends like Isaac," Willa said in greeting. "I don't," muttered Jared. Isaac rolled his eyes. "Yeah, you don't. You have //one// friend like Isaac." His voice turned into this stupid mock whisper and he leaned towards Jared conspiratorially. "It's me, by the way."

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)

COMPLETED [boyxboy] Carson Hughes is a bright light. Vinny Taylor is an enigma. ** After spending his summer away as a camp counselor, Carson Hughes comes back to his home town for his senior year. Things seem to be just as he left them until he finds out his best friend's brother came out of the closet and cut everybody out of his life. Kind and caring Carson can't help but want to understand this new Vinny. Vinny Taylor is falling, constantly going down and feeling like there's no end. His summer leaves him changed forever. After coming out and alienating himself, he spends most days locked away in his room until Carson comes back to town. Vinny's a mystery yet to be figured out. And Carson is up to the task. WARNING: Some of the content in this book may be triggering for some readers. Chapters with triggering content will have trigger warnings at the top with what the triggering content is. There will not be any graphic or detailed scenes of traumatic or triggering experiences. ~180k words

"There's a thin line between love and hate" - Reid Thompson had been struggling for years to find something to motivate him. That's till he moved to Lincoln where he joined the soccer team with a cute but moody, star player. Ansel Beck was just trying to make his parents proud and be the best at everything. Unfortunately, the adorable new boy threatened his spot as captain. But that was just the beginning. Some how everything just got even messier and Reid endured a bad accident that made coping so much harder. Started: July 6, 2019 Finished: