Short Stories

Part 1

This is the first story I've ever posted anywhere so I hope you like it.
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That Beautiful Summer Night

Walking down the empty road, I could finally hear the waves calling me. Finally I had reached my safe haven. As I stepped into the soft sand, I relaxed at once. The beach was my home and the waves, my family.

Today was one of the hardest days of my life and lying here on the sand, looking at the stars, I forget all about it. Seeing the billions of stars twinkling, I feel at peace.

I walk towards the waves and there I see something in the sand, sparkling in the moonlight. It’s a beautiful sparkling piece of stone, shaped just like a star.

'Wow What luck!' I say to myself.

Walking along the stretch of the beach, I suddenly feel someone following me.

“Oh fuck I'm being followed,I'm so screwed!!” I think to myself.

Still slowly like an idiot, I take a risk and turn around to find a boy staring at me, his sparkling black eyes staring deep into mine.

“Who r u?” I ask, trying to look strong. “I’m Bond, James Bond” he says, with a grin

“And I’m Hazel, Hazel Grace”, I say rolling my eyes, yet smiling for some odd reason.

“Your name’s really Hazel Grace??!!” he asks surprised.

“ No of course it’s not, but you’re not James bond either so I improvised”

“ Oh that’s too bad, I would have loved to be your Augustus, Hazel Grace” he says smirking.

There was something about that smirk I knew I'll never gonna forget.
I smile back at him  and start walking towards my spot on the beach. He follows me.

“ May I join you, my lady?”
“Yes you may”.
Laughing he lies next to me.

“I’m really surprised that you’ve seen The Fault In Our Stars, most boys run miles away from romantic movies”

“Well what can I say, I’m an exception I guess, and don’t tell anyone but I watched it with my little sister and cried a river in the movie theatre. My sister didn’t even blink away a tear. I think she’s a Zombie or heartless or maybe both” he says."

I stared at him with wide eyes and couldn't stop myself from laughing. We both start laughing, like old friends meeting after a long time.

Calming down, suddenly I see a shooting star and we both quickly close our eyes to make a wish. I wished that this night would never end and it felt like it never did end.

We spent the whole night talking about life and staring at the night sky. I had never felt more comfortable with anyone before.I don’t even remember when we fell asleep, but as I woke up, I realised that I was alone and started to wonder whether all of it was just in my head.

As I get up, I suddenly see a drawing before me which showed me that last night was very much real, A big circle labelled “ All the people in the world” and a dot in the middle labelled “the only beautiful soul, you” Love, your Augustus.

The craziest thing was out of everything we talked about, we never got our real names. I guess he’ll always just be my Augustus Waters.