Twelve years ago, he drove away with my heart in his hands. I've moved on since then. Or so I thought. Growing up in a small town, there weren't too many options when it came to friends. But, even in a sea of a million, I'd always choose Jake Jameson. I felt safe with him. Safe with my secrets, my dreams and eventually - my heart. I thought we'd have forever together. That was a long time ago. I thought I'd forgotten those piercing blue eyes and the sound of his laugh. I tried to obliterate the memory of his touch from my mind. But, one single glance, as he stands at my door, twelve years later, and I'm suddenly transported back to a simpler time when love was easy, and my heart was whole. The problem? I'm marrying his best friend.

˜"*°•.˜"*°• After a wild affair, Hadden Jennings and Camelia French decided driven by passion and love to be a husband and wife, both very young, The husband was twenty-one years old, the bride but seventeen, six months ago the bride, sole daughter of a wealthy family, had eloped from boarding school with a poor young man, a teacher of music. the daughter had been cast off by her parents, and the young man dismissed from the school where he taught. Unable to secure another position, misfortune had steadily tracked his footsteps until he could scarcely afford bread for himself and her, and they choose to split and four months after Camelia French left her husband she became the mother of a lovely daughter-a girl that is the heroine of this story, the father in a fit of rage stole Angelina away from her mother and brought her to his sister to raise as her own, facing her destiny alone with no parents Angelina life change when she meets Frank Adler if you had searched New York over you could not have found a more perfect specimen of manly grace, strength, and beauty. will her love life will be the same as her parents ............. Enjoy Reading •°*"˜.•°*"

Vince Blake is perfect; he has a perfect family, a perfect life, a perfect record for this year's football season and a perfect fucking smile. Haz, short for Hazel Stiles, isn't perfect and doesn't want to be. What she does want to be, though, is something more than a "best friend's little sister" to Vince. Parker Stiles isn't perfect either but he tries to be a perfect brother, even when it implies protecting his dear sister from his fuckboy best friend. --- "I don't really believe in love like that," he says. I quirk an eyebrow at him. "Love like... what?" He purses his lips thoughtfully, stirring the milk absently. "Love that makes your whole world spin or something. It sounds like a fantasy and nothing more." Our eyes meet. I decide to be risky. "Well, I believe in it and... I could show you." --- What happens when, one day, that girl that used to follow you like your shadow just doesn't anymore? What happens when she abruptly vanishes from your life? What happens when you start to... miss her? Yeah, what then? Vince has no idea.

As Cara Valentine steps into her senior year, she's ready to make every moment count with her friends. But her plans take a surprising turn when she discovers that Elijah Phoebus, the heartthrob who's been Daphne Venue's middle school crush, has just become single. Determined to help her best friend snag her dream guy, Cara steps up as the ultimate matchmaker. The only hitch? Blake Amore. The irresistible bad boy who seems to have his own agenda. But Cara's mission is clear. "We'll have four months to execute our plan." I explained. "And if it doesn't work?" Sophia raised an eyebrow. "We won't know until we try." I shrugged. "This is your call, Daph. I've got a twenty percent chance this might not work, but-" "More like sixty," Sophia interjected. I ignored her. "What do you say?" Daphne hesitated, her eyes darting between us. "I-" "Do you want him?" I asked, my gaze steady. "Yes," Daphne admitted. A wide grin spread across my face. "Then I'll be your Cupid." Will she be able to shoot straight when love, and maybe even Blake, get in the way? ➽─────────❥

Maybe it's fate, or just bad luck. But these two young adults continue to encounter obstacles as they try to find their way to happiness. Will they let these obstacles tear them apart, will their love last? ••• After her mother's death, sixteen year old Jia Bates becomes distant from everyone and refuses to let anyone make their way into her life, in fear of losing someone else. She lives like this for six years, until on one rainy afternoon, she befriends a stranger who becomes the only person who's able to make her happy again. With both of them coping with struggles of their own, they become each other's lifeline. But even after finding each other, life just keeps throwing them curveballs, and it's up to them to overcome them. **PREVIOUSLY "Blind Love"** (IM SORRY FOR ALL THE NAME CHANGES!!)

"I need you to be the put together one because I'm so fucked up. You've saved me." He whispers. "Carter, we saved each other." I mutter looking at him through my eyelashes. I lean into him, our lips not even an inch apart. "Sophia we shouldn't..." He looks hesitant. "Please, I need you." I almost started crying. "Please." I mutter one more time, my eyes begging for him. My body needing him. Sophia Carrington. She just moved from New York to California in search of a new life. When her life took a dark turn she's forced to leave everything behind. She just wants to finish her final year of high school, numb to the world, while learning to cope with the trauma she's endured. Carter Marquez. Newly single after being dumped by his girlfriend of two years. After losing his dad in a car accident he's fallen apart. The list of people he trusts is short, he hates letting people in. He's constantly trying to make up for his mistakes of the past, trying to find a new purpose in life. When the two of them collided, they instantly took a mutual disliking to each other. Misunderstandings and a dash of alcohol set a flame between them. Sophia hates the snarky remarks and stupid nicknames that leave his mouth. Carter thinks Sophia is just another trust fund brat. Soon their rivalry begins to dissolve and they learn that sharing the pain of their past can form connections they never thought to be possible. WARNING: This story contains mature topics such as sexual assault and drug addiction. Read with caution. Copyright © by lulustoriesss 2021

.'*'.'*'.'*'.'*'.'*'.'*'.'*'.'*'.'*'.'*'.'*'.'*'. What's supposed to happen during the last year of highschool?!. Rihanna Akorede Bolade had imagined a full filled year with her 'sassy six', her six girls friendship gang. She had her imagination fed with a wonderful everyday adventure of parties, hang out and fun. But little did she know her perfect plans would fall right through when her very strict father shows up one week to resumption with his new wife Lila and her brother Levi who's the same age as her, and they're here to stay. To make matters worse, her sassy six friends starts to fall on the edge of dispersion when two of them decides to forgo the last year and run off to uni. Adding salts to the wound, her forever crush meets with an accident to which he almost lost his life. Series and series of many more unexpected things begin to happen, nothing like she planned. That year turned out to be nothing as she had planned, but nevertheless she pulled through the drama and disappointment in ways she never imagined.

Peaches lost her parents a year ago but the feeling of grievance still haunts her every time the lights go off . She decided to quit her job and recover in peace . It was never easy dealing with customers when some of them reminded her of what she had lost . She's been living in the comforts of her home until something unexpected happened . She will find herself in a rollercoaster of two men who claim to want to be with her . This is a story about Peaches and how she found herself trapped in between two hot men from the next door houses . How will her story unfold ?

When Hollis moved to California, she had never expected to fall in love with the charming football player, Owen Windess. She hadn't expected to fall in love with anyone after she had seen what love did to people in her life. And with that, she had never expected for herself to become so attached. When her trust in Owen gets ripped away, she does what's best for her, even if it hurts. Walking away from her best friend. Expecting nothing good to come while turning her back on Owen, she meets Luke Craine, a boy from her high school who brings her smile back. Over time, after she gets to know Luke more, she begins to realize that this future she never expected is the better path than the one she had always dreamed of. "Every love story isn't expected. Did you think this one would be?"