Twisted Minds

Mark
Stay focused. Work on your video game. Stay out of trouble.
All three of those things shatter into oblivion over the summer. I am the king of bad decisions and the one I made when I started hanging out with Derrick and his crew is the dumbest. Now I’m trying to keep my head above water and fix the mess I made. He holds my fate in his hands, but then he comes to me with a proposition. One last task, and then I’m free.
Date the hockey captain and destroy his heart.
I agree because it will give me more time to catch him in his lies. I know I didn’t commit the crime he’s accused me of. He’s responsible somehow. I know it. I just need evidence. I need time. This is the way to get it. Besides, it’s not like this hockey jock will even want me.
But. . . then he does.
Hunter is unlike anyone I’ve ever met. I don’t know what to do with his kindness, the sweet looks he gives, and the patient way he handles me. What I don’t expect is to fall for him. Hard. I have to get out of this. I need help but I only have myself to blame. When secrets come to light my world implodes. I need to fix this for good. I need to stop Derrick.
Or risk losing the best thing that has ever happened to me forever.

Hunter
Life is suffocating me. I’m taking care of my best friend after a horrific accident changed all our lives. School and hockey won’t let me breathe. I’m being pulled in all different directions trying to stay afloat for everyone around me. Sometimes it feels like I want to scream. After a fight, my friend Sawyer ends up with him in jail and me stranded at his dorm with nowhere to go. I think everything is finally closing in around me.
Then I meet Mark
As I sink down into misery in front of a vending machine on his dorm room floor, he offers me some food and a place to sleep until I can get my friend out of jail. He’s kind of awkward, adorably so and yeah maybe he drools a bit in his sleep. There’s something about him that breathes life into me for the first time in nearly a year. I love his feisty attitude and the way he lights up talking about video games. There’s something between us that first night we meet, and I can’t stop thinking about him. For the first time in so long it’s like I can breathe again.
Things are starting to look up and I start to trust again for the first time in a while. Even when I’m a little bit wary of his ex-friends with benefits now turned best friend Noah who is the most outrageous person I’ve ever met. The more time we spend, the deeper I fall for him. Maybe this is it, I’ve finally found my happily ever after.
People start to talk though, and Mark seems like he’s hiding something. When secrets come to light, I can’t believe the mess I’ve gotten myself into. There is no coming back from this.
So much for happily ever after.