Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

Pharaoh-Akhil White is a Bronx, New York native college dropout. Realizing school wasn't his path he turned to drug dealing but soon made something out of hisself and created Designed By White, his new clothing line. Zariah Daniels is in college for dance. She takes the train to Times Square every morning and afternoon at the same time as Pharaoh takes the same train to his store, Designed By White. Pharaoh purposely sits across from her so he can grab her attention each morning and afternoon. Never once have they spoken to each other yet alone know each other's name. When it comes to Zariah around him, Pharaoh can't form words.

Twenty year old college student who's life is ahead of her, in the dark is a Bronx drug dealer who's past has a deep story behind it. Sky and Devin bumps head with each other and their story contiues.

When Helena finds a phone on the night train, she decides to text the first number in the list of contacts in order to figure out who it belongs to. ***** Helena Santos hasn't had the easiest life. At twenty-one, she's the legal guardian of her teenage sister, in the final year of her nursing degree, and working night shifts at her small-town's local bar. And things get a lot more complicated when she finds a phone on the train home and decides to text the first number in the list of contacts, in hopes of tracking down its owner. That contact? Adam Bauer; the charismatic, sweet, and refreshingly honest older brother of the person who lost their phone. As the two continue talking, they can't ignore the chemistry and growing feelings between them, but life is never that simple. To make things work, Helena and Adam need to juggle a troubled sister, a meddlesome ex-boyfriend, and one fat lawsuit - all intent on keeping them apart. [[word count: 40,000-50,000 words]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story contains swearing, mature themes, and sexual content.