Nonslowburn Stories

Corabelle Maguire, 16-year-old Junior in high-school, has spent years despising one name: Gustav Ahr. The boy who gets under her skin. The boy she swore she'd never forgive. But when one reckless night shatters everything she thought she knew, the last person she expects to pull her out of the chaos is him - the one person she's called her enemy for as long as she can remember. Only he isn't just Gustav anymore. He's Lil Peep - the rising rapper the world adores, the mystery everyone thinks they understand. What starts as reluctant gratitude turns into stolen glances. Late-night confessions. A pull neither of them can escape, no matter how hard they try. They spiral into an on-again, off-again relationship - addicted to the tension, consumed by the passion, too lost in each other to see the quiet destruction forming beneath the surface. Every argument cuts deeper than the last. Every reunion feels like oxygen after drowning. But pain has a way of forcing the truth to the surface. Somewhere between the breaking and the healing, between the silence and the words they were always too afraid to say, they begin to learn. To listen. To understand. To communicate in ways they never had before.

After his parent's divorce, Ethan joins a new soccer team and becomes friends with the captain. Then he meets the captain's sister, Lily - who is strictly off-limits according to the team rules. The problem? She's the only one who actually understands him.