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The Best of Us

swallowedhearts

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Parts 37
Time 19h 28m

Reads 25,342
Votes 1,565
Parts 37
Time 19h 28m

swallowedhearts

Mature

[BXB] Seventeen year old Tucker Bailey is spiraling. 

Sharing a home with his cold father and a hollow shell of an older brother, Tucker struggles to find himself in a house filled with ghosts of the past. 

As he battles grief, his intensifying and confusing feelings for his lifelong best friend, Bradley, and his increasing lack of purpose and direction, Tucker decides he wants to take his life back. 

But the road ahead is a long one and if he takes a wrong turn along the way then he doesn't just risk losing himself; he risks losing everything.

[ September. 2022. - present ] 

#34 in movingforward
#47 in comingoutofthecloset
#64 friendstolovers
#70 in movingonAll Rights Reserved

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Hurtless (BL)

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