Growingup Stories

Salvatore Smith meets a woman with whom he shared few nights after loosing his wife. It was 12 years ago, she was way younger than him, from a different country. He is a powerful man, Don of the American Mafia, leading his businesses with his 6 sons. What will happen when they find out that from that a little girl was born from that short relationship? -What is this thing? -She is your sister... -I guess you drank too much last night, we don't have a sister! -Now you have one...

𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐚 𝐀𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐰𝐚 doesn't do feelings, doesn't do family, and he definitely doesn't do babies. But when a newborn shows up with his name on a note, suddenly he's doing all of them. Between all the pain and confusion, he knew one thing for sure; he'd do anything to build a happy, safe future for her...because she was his tether, the reason he's still here, still trying, still fighting so hard for a better world so she wouldn't. And he would do anything to prevent her from feeling the danger he had gotten used to feeling.

Belonging was only the beginning. Josephine St. Claire thought the hardest part of her journey was adjusting to life without her mother, life with the family she was never meant to know. But as she settles into their world, guarded secrets and buried truths beg to come to surface. [Book Two in The Turning Seasons Series]

Michael Cruger was just your average Reefside student who loved writing music and playing until his life turned upside down when a new threat, Mesogog, arrived and now he has to align himself with the new Power Ranger in Reefside, the Dino Rangers.

✨🍂 𝒦𝒾𝓈𝒾 𝒿𝒶𝒽𝒶𝒶𝓃 𝓉𝑜𝒽 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝒽𝑒𝑔𝒶 𝒷𝒶𝓃𝓈𝓊𝓇𝒾 𝓌𝒶𝓁𝒶 𝓉𝓊𝓂𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓆 𝓂𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓇 𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓇 𝒹𝒽𝒶𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒽𝒶𝓉𝒶 𝒻𝒾𝓇 𝓉𝑜𝒽 𝓇𝒶𝒽𝒶 𝒽𝓊 🤍🕰️ 𓆩🦋𓆪 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓇𝓎𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒻𝒶𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃𝓀... 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 ✨ where love didn't knock it drifted in like a soft spell. 𓂃🍃 𝒹𝓊𝓈𝓉𝓎 𝓁𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈, 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓈𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝓈𝓀𝒾𝑒𝓈, and hearts that never learned how to leave each other. 🕯️ because some love stories don't end... they simply turn into folklore 🤍 Blood made them family. Love made them stay. 🤍 📜In a house full of chaos, loud arguments, midnight comfort talks, stolen desserts, overprotective boys, dramatic family dinners, sleepy cuddles, healing hearts, and love that never needed permission to exist... they found something stronger than blood itself. 🌸💫This isn't just a romance. It's about the people who become home. 🦋💫The ones who hold your shaking hands in silence. The ones who fight the world for you, annoy you endlessly, steal your fries, sit outside your door after an argument, and still choose you every single day. ❄️🤍A story where love is soft, messy, possessive, comforting, chaotic, and unconditional all at once. Where the boys look dangerous but love like poetry. Where the girls carry storms in their hearts yet somehow become everyone's peace. ☃️Because sometimes soul ties are stronger than surnames. And sometimes the family you choose loves you louder than the one you were born into. 🥀

Melody thought moving to Maryland would just mean a new house, a new school, and a pink bedroom. Instead, it became the beginning of everything: strange friendships, messy first relationships, heartbreaks, rumors, jealousy, and the kind of memories that stay stuck in your head forever. New Parts every 2 days.

In the quiet, shifting spaces of growing up, some stories aren't written in grand gestures, but in the unscripted afternoons that shape who we eventually become. Just Madison is an intimate, reflective journey through the eyes of a woman at thirty, looking back at the formative years that turned a girl into herself. From the hollow, echoing rooms of a new house at thirteen to the turbulent, defining pressures of high school, the story traces the transition from aimless girlhood to the complexities of adulthood. It is a portrait of a life lived in the margins-the quiet moments, the shifting friendships, and the slow, steady process of figuring out exactly who you are meant to be when the world isn't watching. Or, maybe they are.. Through the lens of memory, Just Madison explores the universal, beautiful, and often messy process of growing up, capturing the essence of the girl who was just waiting for her own life to begin.

Seventeen-year-old Avery Carter has spent every summer of her life at Evermore Lake. Her parents and their bestfriends have vacationed there together for nearly twenty years. Same house, same traditions, same people. Which means every summer has also included Ethan Reed. Ethan is her older brothers bestfirend. Three years older, annoyingly protective, the guys who taught her how to fih when she was ten, pstched her scraped knees at twelve, and left for college without looking back when she was fifteen. Avery hasn't seen him in almost twenty years. This summer is different. her family might sell the lake house, it could be their last summer at Evermore Lake. And Ethan comes back different- quieter, older, harder to read. At the same time, Avery is falling apart a little. Her friendships back home are changing. College applications are getting real. Everything feels like it's moving forward too fast. Then one night after a fight with her friends, Avery ends up at sitting alone at the dock. Ethan finds her. And somehow dock conversations become late night drives. Late night drives become boat rides at sunrise. Boat rides become almost hand holding and lingering looks and feelings Avery promised herself she got over years ago. But Ethan leaves for collge across the countyr in August and Avery goes back for her senior year. And Avery knows summer never lasts forever.

"Not all friendships are meant to last... but every one of them leaves a scar on the heart."

Sam has a secret that no one besides her best friend Nick knows about. Every May 16th, something...bizarre happens to her. She flashes forward to a random point in her future, living one full day in a life she hasn't lived yet-until she falls asleep and wakes up right back where she started. With each jump, Sam meets new people who seem to know her better than she knows herself. But no matter when-or where-she lands, Nick is always her constant. As the years unfold out of order, Sam records each glimpse of the future on cassette tapes-1999, 2004, 2008, 2014, 2020-until her final tape sends her to 2024. Piece by piece, she begins to assemble a life she hasn't lived yet-and uncover truths she may not be ready to face. Still, until the jumps stop, she has no choice but to keep going...one borrowed day at a time.

Annie Sawchuk works for the family business started by her grandmother, Olga. With supernatural abilities, she hunts vampires and werewolves (for a reasonable fee). She's falling in love with Edward Blue, who disposes of the night creatures she kills (a disgusting but essential job), and is yearning to grow beyond her childhood home, where she still lives as a twenty-something. An impeccably dressed and fiendishly handsome vampire, Vesper van Goethe, comes into her life claiming to be her grandmother's old love. Family history, secrets, love, and tragedy come to light and as Easter approaches, Annie learns of a unprecedented gathering of vampires and their monstrous sanguisuga kin. With the help of new friends, her grandmother and her mother, there is a chance to go on the largest hunt ever. It's sure to be a bloodbath. Annie can't wait.

What would it be like to be raised by wolves? One night a child is taken and raised by a pack of wolves in the far north forests, but the child's parents are rich and powerful and still are searching for their lost daughter sixteen years later........

Anna is thirteen years old and already holding more than most adults ever will. In a small town, in a house that never quite warms up, Anna moves through her days quietly, waking her sisters, stretching meals, smoothing the sharp edges of a life shaped by poverty and fatigue. Her mother works. Her sisters depend on her. At school, she is helpful, invisible, careful. No one asks how much she carries, or what happens when the weight slips. Anna is a novel about eldest daughters, and the quiet cost of being the one who never breaks.

Changes (Some Hurt, Some Bloom) We all change. From a kid chasing butterflies, to a teenager chasing dreams, to an adult chasing peace. This is not a story with characters. This is a mirror - for you to see yourself in every line. Some changes will break you. Some will make you bloom. And in between, you'll find pieces of yourself you never knew existed. For anyone standing between who they were and who they're becoming - this is for you.

Rin, Mei, Nel, and Kaia have been friends since 6th Grade. As Rin gets older, time seems to slip away easier and easier. The group tries to make as many memories as they can before they all reach adulthood.

Seventeen-year-old Maya Carter has always kept her life simple: school, her small group of friends, and her dream of becoming a journalist. Then Ethan Brooks transfers to her school. At first, he's quiet, polite, and easy to ignore. But after a single act of kindness from Maya, Ethan begins paying attention to her more than anyone else. What starts as innocent friendship slowly turns into something deeper, more complicated, and harder to understand. Maya likes him. Ethan likes her. The problem is that Ethan doesn't know where admiration ends and obsession begins. As feelings grow, boundaries blur. Friends become worried. Secrets come to light. And Maya must decide whether love is enough when someone starts losing themselves in it. A realistic story about first love, attachment, friendship, trust, and learning that caring about someone doesn't mean controlling them.

Zaya didn't expect much on her first day of 9th grade-just another new classroom full of strangers. But a random seat next to Lina, and across from Eva and Nyra, marked the quiet beginning of something big. From nervous introductions to school events like Tobacco Day, exhibitions, and group projects, friendships began to form and deepen. Soon, a lively group took shape-Zaya, Lina, Eva, Nyra, Innah, Belle, Aiden, and Rayan. Inside jokes, ships, and secret crushes made every day unpredictable. Love bloomed between Aiden and Nyra, and Rayan's heartfelt proposal won Eva over-but not all stories had a happy ending. Changes in Belle caused a painful split, and the group reshaped itself into a tighter circle. Through laughs, tears, heartbreaks, and healing, this is a story of real school friendships-how they start, how they grow, and how they survive.

How it feels navigating your early 20's as a woman

*𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 1 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.* Jake and Violet have been best friends for as long as they can remember. They have a bond like no other: sharing the smallest of secrets and practically reading each other's minds. Everyone's always known that Jake and Violet were meant to be together, except, of course, the two of them. But when they finally realize how they really feel about each other, will they reveal their true feelings or will unshared secrets come in between them? Michael and Jada were always close. As the younger siblings of Violet and Jake, they've known each other since birth. No one ever thought they'd grow apart, but one night changed the friendship they once shared. Michael and Jada slowly start to reconnect, but will they ever really reach their old footing, or will outside forces drive them apart? *𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫.* 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: Hey readers! Welcome to my first story and the first book of the Golden Ridge series. This story was inspired by a variety of movies and shows. Hope you all enjoy it! *𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.*

THESE CHARACTERS ARE FROM THE TROLLS MOVIE FILM, WHICH IS OWNED BY DREAMWORKS! I am brothers with another channel, called dogsneeze.