The Things We Carry

The Things We Carry

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Some people carry their pain loudly. Other's hide it until they fall apart. Aoife Molloy never expected Liam Irwin to be her disaster. Quiet, Mean, Impossible. He arrives at BCS carrying more anger, and heartbreak than anyone should know how to deal with. Everyone tells her to stay away. But she doesn't. Because she see's beneath the bruised knuckles, and the sharp mouth. She see's someone who looks as lost as she feels, trying to make her way around school, and life, without coming back into paths with Joey Lynch. Her 'biggest mistake.' Joseph Lynch is barely keeping his head above water, when Fiadh Murphy crashes into his life with patients, and refusal to look away, from the broken, shattered parts of him. What starts as a unwanted friendship, quickly becomes something dangerous. Hope. But boys like Joey don't believe in happy endings. And people like Liam don't know how to stay when thing's fall apart.
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"It causes your immune system to turn against you," I explained gently. The color terrifyingly drained from his face as he stared at his knuckles. "I have a spot," he whispered, his voice scraping like glass. "Right here." He let out a strangled noise as the stadium footage buffered. "Riley!" he shrieked, covering his burning face while peering through his fingers at his future self. "Those pants leave absolutely nothing to the imagination!" He went so unnaturally still I thought his heart had stopped beating. His charcoal-stained fingers curled into tight fists. "Fifty," he whispered, scanning the fatal summary on the glowing screen. "I am... I am gone at fifty." What if the only way to save your future was to completely abandon your past? In 1982, Michael Jackson is suffocating. Trapped behind his family's compound gates and drowning under industry pressure, the rising star just wants a life of peace and normalcy. The universe answers-violently ripping him from his timeline and dropping him onto the bedroom rug of Riley, a freelance graphic designer in the year 2025. Stranded forty-three years in the future, Michael must face a world that already knows his tragic history. But Riley fiercely refuses to let that history repeat. She offers him the anonymous, ordinary life he always craved, rebuilding his shattered confidence brick by brick and teaching him the radical concept of self-love. More importantly, she arms him with the ultimate weapon: the brutal truth. She gives him the exact names of the snakes hiding in his 1982 backyard, the upcoming betrayals, and the devastating tragedies he is destined to face. When the universe inevitably pulls him back, Michael is no longer the timid pop star terrified of his shadow. He is a king preparing to claim his throne, knowing exactly how to rewrite music history and what it takes to survive. But armed with the future, changing his fate might cost him the one person who taught him how to live.

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