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We Make Waves [Jhene Aiko/You]

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Long Beach, California. 

Slauson Hills, California. 

Beverly Hills. 


You can take the girl from the hood.. but you can't take the hood from the girl. 

Y/n Y/ln, raised by her father in Japan until she was twelve when she was sent to the states with her two brothers to live with their mother. Straight into the heart of Long Beach, California. Growing up in Long Beach shifted her view. Instead of coming out of it in a cliche way, she falls into the trap of drugs, stealing, doing anything to get what she wants. But.. that's not all she is. She knows how to make music with her own two hands and something to record it on. 

With this, her and her brother Maru take the world by storm with their music. She makes it, he raps over it. All they want is one tour, one tour.. 

And they get it. 

But who happens to be on that tour turns everything around. What was just suppose to be music turns into Lust, Drugs, spiritual healing.. and heartbreak. 

Jhene brings waves to an already tsunamic Y/n. 


Yellow sun meets Blue water. And.. They Make Waves. 


Y/n gip daddyAll Rights Reserved

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What do you do when your whole world turn upside down? Well, Haya is sure about to find out. She was an ordinary, frankly naive, seventeen year old girl. Born into a Middle-Eastern family, she had parents who were filthy rich and were hired by a classified government agency because they were the best at what they did. But when Haya's father falls into the eye of the Russian mafia, they threaten his only daughter's life. Ultimately, he takes the drastic decision of sending her away to live with her aunt in Malibu. Little did he know that it would change his daughter's life forever. ______________________________________________________ Alex is the resident bad boy at Malibu High School. Girls practically threw themselves at him because he was the walking definition of hotness. Yes, he was the star quarterback and a total eye candy but who knew he had secrets of his own? What happens when these two opposite worlds collide , when loyalties are tested and love itself is in jeopardy? We know one thing for sure; their story starts on a aeroplane, headed home. ______________________________________________________ [A/N: I know this description sucks but this is my very first story. So please guys, do take a little time and check it out. I promise you, you will enjoy this. However, there will be some grammar errors which I apologise for in advance; English isn't my mother tongue. ]

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It was 5 years later. Time has changed. The seasons came and gone as did people. With his parents troublesome separation, 19-year-old Kairo was growing into the man he once aspired to be like; his father. But just because he looked and moved like him, didn't mean that he was anything like the man who had fucked up a good thing with his mom, or was he? He had girls, older and younger gawking and chasing after him. His family saw him as one person but in their absence, touring the streets with young Zaire, he was a different person. Despite all of that, there was love brewing; old and new and Kairo was aware of one in particular. But how far would a person be willing to go for love? Would they die for it? Could he stand back and watch another man love the woman that his father should have? Kairo knew of the man in his mother's life even if she tried to deny things. The only question he had for his father was; What Will It Take? Zaire was a lot like his father in many ways but he was still a sweetheart but proved on many occasions that he had no problems with getting his hands dirty. When you put those two together, you were bound to get into trouble. Then we had Ava, baby girl was 20 going on 21 and had graduated high school with honors and earned her associate's degree in nursing and was currently working on her last two years to earn her bachelors in fashion. She was still friends with Kayla and Michelle but was sure to kick it with Michelle every once in a while, being that her father was still trying to dig up dirt on King. The twins were grown, out of college, traveling here and there and supporting the Goonies' success of being drafted into the NBA two years ago. They were playing for the Phoenix Suns for the time being until a newer opportunity presented itself and they visited as often as they could during the offseason. Sweet little Assyria was 16, in her junior year with Zaire, both ready to get the heck out of school. ©️_jasthewriter

Dilemma by lllightletterss

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