I-wrote-this-instead-of-sleeping Stories

Laila Carter has a past that haunts her. She's hoping to find a fresh start in a new place at a new school - and as she tries to find a clean slate through new friends, she absorbs herself in her art. Derek Black has his own secrets; ones he'll never tell. He feels stuck in the same town he's been his whole goddamn life. He's tired - but he loves to paint. As Derek and Laila untangle the web of threads that follow them through their junior year of high school, they transfer them to a canvas - together.

When Shiro reunited with his his summer camp best friend Matt at a McDonald's after 3 years of not seeing each other, he didn't know what to expect. But i wasn't moving into the apartment complex where Matt lived at his suggestion. And it DEFINITELY wasn't the madness that ensued afterwards. But he's not complaining.