Califronia Stories

(Previously known as The Lost) Betrayal is nothing new to the Łabanowski siblings. Neither is abandonment. So when the eldest two disappear on the triplets' tenth birthday, it really shouldn't take them by surprise. Five years later: the remaining eight are all grown up and trying to move on with their lives when, suddenly, it is announced that the family will be reuniting. No one will be welcoming the brothers home with open arms, that's for sure, but when threats become reality and lives are at stake, they will be forced to put aside their differences once and for all.

"He definitely wants to sleep with you," he taunts. "Excuse me?" I look at him weirdly, "What are you even talking about." "The way he touched your arm. That's what people do when they wanna fuck someone." He looks down at his paper and continues to sketch his patterns. I get an idea and scoot my chair closer to his. I lean forward and bring my lips up to his ear, very gently. "Well, that's what you do." He snaps his head towards me like he knows what I'm going to say next. "Do you wanna fuck me?" I whisper, making sure to look at him in awe. I hope it has an even better effect since our faces are closer. He opens his mouth to say something but hesitates. His eyes are everywhere but mine. When he finally catches my stare, he pushes my chair back to where it was before with his foot. "You are such a smart-ass. Would it hurt to swallow your ego for two seconds? Not everything's about you," he argues. "Maybe. I mean- I've swallowed worse," I shrug with a petty smile. *** Lavender Quinn has always struggled with her mental health but somehow managed to always stay at the top of her class... until her senior year. After competing with her since middle school, Elijah Rivera finally manages to beat her whole grade average by one. They can't stand each other (or so they think). What happens when they keep getting grouped together in projects before their big school Paris trip? Is it a coincidence or is it fate? ~ To everyone who feels like they're not deserving of love. started november 10th, 2022 ended ??? *** RANKINGS: 9/21/24 • #2 IN FRENEMIES 3/27/25 • #3 IN LAVENDER

Daisy Henderson never expected to see Hawkins again. After one too many parties, too many broken promises, and a reputation that followed her across California, her father has finally had enough. Sent back to Hawkins in a last-ditch effort to straighten out her life, Daisy finds herself trapped in the town she spent years trying to escape. But Hawkins isn't the same place she left behind. A fiery redhead named Max Mayfield and her dangerously unpredictable stepbrother, Billy Hargrove, have just rolled into town, turning heads and stirring up trouble wherever they go. As strange events begin unfolding once again, it becomes clear that Hawkins is about to change forever. For Daisy, though, the biggest complication isn't the new arrivals or the secrets lurking beneath the town. It's Steve Harrington. Before California. Before the parties. Before everything fell apart. There was Steve. And despite the years, the distance, and the reasons they swore they'd stay away from each other, some flames never really go out. As old feelings resurface and new dangers emerge, Daisy must decide whether Hawkins is the place that will finally save her-or destroy her. Because in Hawkins, secrets never stay buried for long.

Addison Maeve Swan or Addy as she's known by most who know her has a secret that she's been hiding for months. Her older sister, Bella, has been physically and emotionally mistreating her since shortly after she moved to Forks to live with Addison and their father, Charlie, following her mother's recent remarriage. Addison has been trying to stay strong throughout Bella's cruel treatment towards her but she's reaching her breaking point. It also doesn't help that she recently discovered that Charlie Swan isn't actually her biological father. The only clue to her father's real identity that she is able to get from her mother Renée is the name of a small town: Charming, California. What happens when Addison ends up deciding to run away from Forks and head to Charming? What happens when she finds not only her biological dad but also a new found family that treats her so much better than the family she thought was hers for nearly her entire life? *READ TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS*

Nadine, a travel nurse, takes a two week assignment in Encino, expecting routine care. But when she meets her clients grandson ---Michael---things take an unexpected turn. Romance, mystery, and secrets await in this tale of what happens when you're warned not to get attached #2 in Iconic 11/28/2025 #2 in kingofpop 1/24/2026 #1 in Iconic 2/11/2026 #1 in iconic 2/17/2026 &2/18/2026 #1 in controversy 2/17/2026 & 2/18/2026

When twenty-one-year-old Josie Callahan moves from Boston to California after graduating college, the last thing she expects is to meet someone who makes the unfamiliar feel like home. As she navigates a new life, new opportunities, and an uncertain future, an unexpected friendship begins to grow with the quiet young man living nearby. What starts as a simple friendship slowly becomes something more-but Josie has no idea that the boy she's falling for is one of the biggest stars in the world. A slow-burn friends-to-lovers story set in the summer of 1983.

"it's really not, he's someone I could write about for years" "what are you saying about me, Adler?" in which a gold Ferrari feeds an ambition, which in turn leads to an American popstar meeting a special racing driver for a second time introduction.

Winter quarter of senior year was supposed to be simple for Iwaizumi Hajime. Late night at the libraries, fraternity activities, crushes and exes, friends and midterms. Then Oikawa Toru, his then childhood best friend and now international volleyball star, shows up at the front door steps of his apartment in Irvine, California. Freshly exiled from the volleyball world with a scandal that has flooded the tabloids, Oikawa slowly settles into Iwaizumi's world while navigating years of unresolved and unspoken distances between them. "I hope you slip in the shower." "I hope the toilet water splashes you." Iwaizumi Hajime Fan-Fiction Iwaizumi Hajime x Original Character Crossposted on AO3 [ on-going ]

A slow-burn romance set during the glamorous disco nights of the Off the Wall era, filled with music, friendship, and the magic of first love.

On their first day of school, best friends and competitive swimmers Mable and Conner must adapt to the newest addition to their swim team, a runaway, who is from a very wet, very different world.

Jennelle Fitzpatrick lives for a great day at the beach especially since she lives in California, Malibu where the ocean is practically right outside her door thanks to living in a beach house with her dad. But when the son of her dad's best friend - Brayden Matherson - needs housing away from the paparazzi due to being a swimsuit model Jennelle is stuck on babysitting duties to make sure the pretty boy that she's stuck living with doesn't accidentally alert the paparazzi to his hiding spot. Will Jennelle and Brayden learn to get along or will this be the worst summer of their lives?

"is that why you like art so much? because you can feel the lives of others?" started 6/18/26

𝐀 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐁 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐎 𝐆𝐈𝐁𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘. © 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐛𝐲 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐀𝐧𝐲 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬. 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥, 𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦. 𝐀𝐧𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲.

When they were twelve, Michael built a tree house-a quiet sanctuary where he could escape the world. Then came Elise. What started with an accidental meeting soon turned the little tree house into their haven place and made a promise that would change everything. Whoever got married first gets the tree house. It was a ridiculous promise. A childish one. Years later, Michael is chasing the biggest dream of his life, building a career that leaves little room for anything permanent, except a long list of women who never seem to stay. Elise, on the other hand, is ready to settle down. She's dating a man who's only one ring away from making the promise come true. What begins as a harmless competition, slowly unravels years of unspoken feelings, almost-confessions, and the terrifying realization that maybe the person they've been searching for has been standing beside them all along. Because sometimes, your one true love isn't about finding someone new. It's about finally seeing the one who's been there since the beginning.

Some secrets are best kept in the dark. This is something that Wendy Case has always personally believed. After all, she herself has her own share of secrets that she's kept for years. One of those secrets being the fact that she has not only a daughter but also an older sister. Wendy had known when she first got involved with Jax Teller that due to the world he lived in that both her daughter and sister could be put in danger at any time which is part of the reason why she kept their existence a secret from nearly everyone involved with SAMCRO. The only person that actually knew about her daughter and sister was Gemma, the queen and beloved matriarch of the mother charter. Now, everything that Wendy has worked so hard to try and protect for so long could come crashing down around her because of a stupid mistake. Will Wendy's worst fears actually come true or will everything end up actually being okay? •READ TO FIND OUT HAPPENS•

She promised she'd only be gone for a year. At twenty, moving across the world felt like the opportunity of a lifetime. New places. New friendships. New dreams. The only thing harder than leaving England was leaving Arthur. What starts as a one-year adventure slowly becomes a life she never expected to build, and with every month she stays away, the distance between them grows harder to ignore. Torn between the future she's creating abroad and the life waiting for her back home, Alice finds herself forced to make an impossible choice. But some choices don't come with clear answers. Told through diary entries, heartbreak, second chances, and the quiet moments that shape a life, Home Was Always You is a story about love, growing up, and discovering that sometimes the thing you're searching for was never a place at all. It was a person.

Seventeen-year-old Oceana Marie is charismatic, confident, and completely unprepared for how much her life is about to change. After moving from Manhattan to California , she expects sunshine and fresh starts-not chaos. At her new school, there's Jesse Castaldi EH EM YOU HEAR THAT NAME! (Vienna and Danny's CHILD) irritating, smug, and always finding a way to get under her skin. They clash constantly, and Oceana quickly decides he's her enemy. Then comes the party. There, she runs into Michael, her obsessive ex-who, to her horror, now works at the same company as her parents and has followed her move to California . Desperate to shut Micheal down and regain control of her life, Oceana makes a bold, impulsive decision: she starts fake dating Jesse. What begins as a plan quickly grows complicated. Suddenly, the lines between fake and real blur, and Oceana is forced to question what she truly wants.

Theo Laurent, the boy who changes your life. Juno has always known exactly what her life would look like-same town, same routines, same safe, carefully built world above the shop she and her mom call home. It's steady. It's predictable. It's everything she's supposed to want. But beneath it all, there's something restless. A quiet pull toward something more-more freedom, more risk, more life than the one she's been living. She just never thought anything-or anyone-would be enough to change it. Until Theo Laurent. He doesn't just walk into her life-he shifts it. Slowly. Unintentionally. Until everything she thought was certain starts to feel fragile, and everything she tried to ignore becomes impossible to outrun. Some stories don't begin with a spark. Some begin with a fracture. And once it starts... there's no going back. (Theo - inspired by Drew Starkey)

Magical girls? A realistic dystopia? Light vs dark but not in the way we're used to? Shameless and repeated mention of burritos?! It's all here!

☆☆-Leon Cashmere has his own mafia, doing what he needs to do.He's also the CEO of the fashion industry, Gaze, owned by his aunt, Anya. Previously, he fell in love with a girl whom he loved, she died trying to protect him. One sudden morning, someone hired him his personal bodyguard, Noel Rodriguez, to protect him from being killed by EXCEED, a dangerous mafia group plotting to take his inheritance from his grandfather. With this sudden change, Leon has a dislike against Noel. What happens when he realizes he's having chemistry with his bodyguard regardless of the risky situation he is in? -☆☆ WARNING: SA Swearing Gun violence Murder Violent scenes Gore 18+ Smut SH Suicide attempts And more... (Book Status: Completed!) Well I hope you guys enjoy this journey with me!! :)) I've been inspired to write this, and I'm a beginner at writing so please dont hate on me for having spelling mistakes. :( Well enjoy I guess :DD First book of the Unknown series! {Credits to my friends, Shadow_0315 and cucumber_22222, along with dear readers for helping me finish this book!}