"do you really think that you love me?"
"if i didn't, you'd already be dead."
Avery Locke knows things, things most normal teenagers don't. For starters, she knows that magic is real, and it's nothing like the fairy tales.
After moving to her father's childhood home in the small town of Matheson, Massachusettes, Avery and her siblings begin to notice strange things, whispers in the halls of the old manor home, strangers lurking in the well house, keys hidden in unusual places.
With these keys, the Locke siblings soon learn that they can do anything- have inhuman strength, navigate into someone's head, become ghosts, manipulate plants and much more. But they aren't the only ones who know about these keys. Some would kill to get their hands on them.
Soon, Avery finds herself falling for a boy who, little does she know, threatens her family and the magical keys. A boy who plans to create a key to turn innocents into creatures like him, into demons. A boy with a strange fixation on Avery Locke. A boy who will stop at nothing to make her join him.
started: 19/8/22
finished:??
[[✨COMPLETED✨]]
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We both inched closer and closer until our lips were brushing against each other like some sort of tease.
But before we could go any further, I stopped and leaned back. He looked confused and disappointed for some reason.
"I can't..."
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Hazel Ambrielle is as lame as it gets. She stays up extra late on Friday nights to read or watch Disney movies in bed. She's never been to a high school party and doesn't drink. When she moves to a new town with her mom and six brothers to escape their past, she expects life to stay the same.
Asher Grey is the big bad popular boy of Glenwood High. He's hooked up with girls at parties and forgotten them the day after too many time to count. He's an egotistical boy that just can't be bothered. His heart string can't be tugged on.
That is until he wakes up to find himself with a new neighbor. A cute girl with glasses and a big family. For the first time in forever, he feels something for a girl other than lust.
Hazel denies the unfamiliar feeling she gets around Asher. She's been hurt too badly to give into someone like him who's bound to do the same. But she can't help but let her walls come down when she sees how they bring out the best of each other.
He brings out her hopeful side and she brings out his dorky side.
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[[WARNING: This story deals with themes of violence and abuse]]