"Then what do you want me to tell you." King yelled causing me to jump a little. Never had he raised his voice at me or even spoke this way to me. But I guess there was a first for everything. I took a deep breath before closing my eyes. I was close. He was close. I was so close that my chest laid against his and I could feel the thuds of his heartbeat. Neither one of us moved because we knew we what we wanted. We knew it from the first day we met each other. Fighting back the tears that formed in the back of my eyes I spoke. "Tell me how we'll be lovers and friends." There was a long silence before I opened my eyes and let the tears fall. _____________ Melanie and King have been friends since the beginning of their freshman year in college. The two always found it weird how they met but thanked God everyday that they had. But the thing that made them different from friends were their feelings. Never had one of them dared to tell each other the feelings they had deep down for one another. Because at the end of the day they were friends. And only that. That's all they knew to be. But with their feelings growing deeper and being unable to control them. Will they finally become what they want. Or will their fantasy crumble to pieces? Will they ever be lovers and friends?

Kelz was everything to Azure. Her first boyfriend, first lover, you name it. However after four years of young love, Azure wakes up to a text that shatters her world. Kelz was done with her, without so much as an explanation. Azure spends weeks searching for answers, but fate has a funny way of changing her heart's tune when she meets Nico Graham during spring break in Miami. Growing up a shy girl, spending most of her days painting away -Azure knows she is no match for the popular man, who has women falling over him wherever he goes. Nico Graham's world consists of two things: Boxing and Women. At the young age of 21, Nico is the undefeated knockout king in the boxing ring, taking on his career headstrong while battling school and the 'friends' he keeps. He wasn't the relationship type, that he knew. However his theory is challenged when he runs into the Golden Brown painter, Azure in Miami. Her shy demeanor and pretty face drawls him in, and he'll do anything to win her love. In a tale of pure fate, Azure and Nico find themselves falling in love in their crazy worlds. When temptation comes knocking at their house of love, will they stand strong or fall?

𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑; 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑒. 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑛 𝑂ℎ𝑘𝑖𝑦𝑎 𝑆𝑚𝑖𝑡ℎ; 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑦 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑚𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑙𝑦𝑛- 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘'𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑠, 𝑎 𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝑀𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑎ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 17-