Laila, like any other girl dream of meeting her mate one day. She wants to feel loved, cherished & protected. She was a shy girl and her only friend was Vanessa who she treated as her best friend since birth. When they went to this party, she didn't know that she will meet her mate, Tyler, there and then. Little does she know, that her dream of being loved and protected, was far from reality since her mate will be the one, who will cause her pain, make her cry, and he will be the one who will plan to eliminate her from this world.
Tyler, considered as the football star player and is considered as a player in the whole school. Every day, he dated different girls and after he gets what he wants with them, he just threw them away like a piece of trash. What can he say, he's good looking, rich, and the most popular guy in school. He can have any girl he likes. But when he meets his mate, Laila at a party, he decided that he will just reject her but not after playing and using her first. But something didn't go with the plan since he accidentally impegrenated Laila after the party.
Vanessa, considered as Laila's best friend, lived & feel like an orphan. Even if Laila's parents adopted and took care of her since her parents died in a car accident when she was only 5 years old, she never felt any love from her foster parents. When Laila and her older brother James, grew up, their parents enrolled them in an exclusive school while she was left to study in the public shool with no fee. Even if Laila and James were there to cheer her up, she felt that it wasn't enough. She wanted more. While she was growing up and started to become a woman, she knew and was decided that she will do everything to change what fate has given upon her. She will be successful and she will have everything, she never had when she was a child. And she will do whatever it takes, just to follow her dream, even if she hurts her best friend, Laila.
"I am the textbook definition of in love with you."
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Jazz Red has had a life full of love; his parents taught him how to value himself, his siblings taught him how to stand up for what he believed in, and his family has taught him what it means to matter to people.
He has people in his corner, there for him and ready to have his back.
He knows that there are people who are less lucky than him-- with unaccepting parents and cruel siblings and a harsh past. He knows that when things go wrong, sometimes people are alone. Sometimes they fall apart, and there's no one else there to catch their shattered pieces.
But he isn't one of them.
He has friends and family that love him.
So why does he want more? Why does he-- even with all the joy his family gives him-- want a different type of love? He feels selfish, undeserving. Why did he have to feel so bad about being alone when he was surrounded by people who appreciated him? Why did he have to want, why did desire never leave him alone?
Well, he finds out when he meets Castor Rex, a quiet and extremely interesting football player, and that empty part in Jazz's heart feels a little bit bigger when he starts to realize Cas could fill it.
Cas sees him as a grinning, happy dork he has no chance with.
Jazz sees him as a adorable, grumpy jock that now, is his.
Castor wants to get through the school year as quietly as possible but with how loud Jazz loves, neither of them know if it's possible, and to make matters worse they're roommates for the rest of the year.
It's only a matter of time before they come together or fall apart.
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Red's Series #4.
Crossover to @whoscountinganyways User Series.
Can be read as a stand alone.