References to Addiction

We Used To Be Best Buddies, And Now We’re Not

You were forced to move away from your childhood best friend. You never spoke again. You are now forced back there unless you want to end up in foster care and he doesn’t want anything to do with you. Reconnecting. “When did he became such a jerk?”

Halloween Costumes Aren’t Free

When Larry makes a group chat to plan Halloween costumes, he never expected it to turn into something darker. Y/N has never been able to celebrate Halloween more than watching a movie. They acted like it was because they didn’t care. Everyone believed it. But now here they are, reading a group chat that they can’t even participate in the end game of. And no one even knows why. They can’t know. That’s what makes it worse.

11:47 PM

When the Blackwood brothers move in next door, Y/N expects trouble. She just doesn’t expect it to look like Kaine Blackwood leaning against the back porch railing every night at 11 p.m., cigarette glowing in the dark while he watches the neighborhood like he’s waiting for something to destroy him. Or Noah Blackwood—his younger brother—the charming new quarterback who becomes her best friend almost immediately. One brother is sunlight. The other is the storm after midnight. What starts as late-night porch conversations and shared cigarettes slowly turns into something dangerous: jealousy, obsession, bloody knuckles, whispered confessions, and feelings none of them know what to do with. Because Kaine Blackwood acts like he doesn’t care about anything. Until it comes to her.