All friendships are weird...right? With accidental thigh grabs, unintentional kisses, and late-night rooftop conversations, Alexis's friendship with Axel definitely takes the cake. But it wasn't always this way. They rekindled their friendship after a fight and it seemed as everything changed. Romantic feelings started to arise, followed by mixed signals. The friendship seemed to be heading in a different direction than planned and only time could tell whether or not there were two travelers on this journey. Cover by @harshadaselena

[WATTYS 2021 SHORTLIST] With only one month left to live, an eighteen-year-old is forced to attend high school and enjoy new experiences: parties, fun and actual friends. **** Colby Willis, an eighteen-year-old who has spent his entire life commuting between his home and the hospital, now has another stop on his route: high school. A homeschooled kid, Colby is absolutely convinced he's seen it all, even though his adolescent experiences are one hundred percent based on teen movies. But then Dany enters the picture. Daniella Varis, a student board president who has devoted her entire free time to academic achievements, finds herself reaching for the final goal: Graduation. After all, everything else has already fallen into her lap, and she couldn't be happier. Yet the strange newcomer boy with beautiful eyes keeps haunting her daydreams, and she can't help but be drawn to him... Featured on Wattpad Official Romance reading list. Featured on Wattpad Official Teen Fiction reading list.

Catalaina Kittridge has mysteriously vanished from her home in the middle of the night without a trace. Her fiancé, Ben, who she is set to marry in two months, is certain that somebody took her. Catalaina's parents confess that they always knew something like this would happen. Her friends suggest that perhaps her relationship with Ben isn't as idyllic as everyone thought. Detective Brett Porter is investigating the case. He begins looking into Catalaina's life meticulously to determine what could have happened to her. But the deeper he delves, the more secrets he unearths and realizes that what might have been painted as a picture-perfect existence is anything but. Catalaina was hiding things from everyone. And the months preceding her disappearance are the most crucial pieces to finding her. Told in compelling first-person voices of the both Detective Porter and Catalaina, LOVES ME NOT shows the hidden complexities of a woman's life and how the myriad pressures of everyday life and unfulfilled dreams might drive an ostensibly happy person to extremes.

| 𝟭𝟲𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 · [EDITORS' CHOICE -- NOVEMBER 2020] [ONC 2020 Winner] Two strangers on separate trains, divided by uncaring glass. A bond forms between them. But will it hold when their trains are bound for different destinations? Evan's heart has been bleeding since his little family was torn apart by divorce, and his nose runs with a cold. Trying to pick up the pieces of his life, he has changed cities, and he's about to change jobs. And he has run out of tissues. A woman's blue hair catches his eye at a train station. And her smile, fortified by braces, catches his heart. Sitting in her train, Iris revels in her future perfect. Her work is finally getting published and she has found Mr. Right. Nothing could go wrong now. Gazing out of the window, she sees the stranger. He looks miserable and sneezes, but her hands want to tousle his bed hair. A random encounter at a subway station. But both of them are caught in their tracks and when their trains pull apart, they don't expect to meet again. ⭐⭐⭐ This is a slow-burn, peculiar romance; an expanded Open Novella Contest Entry based on Prompt #61 in the Romance section: "After being jilted, you move to the city to hide your embarrassment, lick your wounds, and start afresh." Cover illustrations by @EvelynHail. "Mind the Gap" is ONLY available on Wattpad. If you are reading this anywhere else, it is a plagiarized version that may contain malware. ⭐⭐⭐ 16x featured! 🏆 ONC 2020 Winner! 📘 Featured on: "Editors' Choice" ➡ @WattpadExplorer "Satisfy Your Cravings" ➡ @WattpadExplorer "Purity-Realistic Fiction" ➡ @AvantPop "Love Yourself"➡ @WattpadSpiritual "Head over Heels" ➡ @Romance "Accept Yourself" ➡ @LY "A Little Bit of Everything" ➡ @NARomance "Finding Love" ➡ @generalfiction "Melting Hearts" ➡ @adultfiction "Consequences" ➡ @ChickLit ...

She's had a secret kept safe for three years, one that would tear her family apart. It only took one drunk encounter for her secret to be exposed on national radio. ***** Emma Ullmann has been harboring a secret for three years - she's in love with Dr. Eamon Mikklesen. Only problem, he's dating her sister Larissa. She's managed to keep her feelings a secret, but that all changes when on her way to work, Emma hears the notorious Joey Levy expose her secret on the city's most popular morning radio show. Now, not only is Emma desperate to keep her sister from finding out but she's also stuck having to be the city's biggest form of gossip. When the producers of Radio 769 realize the money making opportunity in front of them, Emma is pulled into their ridiculous game: Forget Prince Charming and give me Romeo. What follows is a hurricane of events where, no matter how hard she tries, Emma is thrust into the life of speed dating, blind dates and a voting poll where the public decides her next move. Either she moves on or, chases after Eamon. Highest ranking: #3 in diverse lit, #5 in women's fiction, #1 diverse characters. #1 in interracial [Cover design by the wonderful @Enigmatic-11]

After losing her mom in a tragic accident, Fiona finds herself heading to one of the most prestigious schools with a low acceptance rate. But as time flies at Maple Ridge, Fiona realizes that her mom's life wasn't as simple as she thought, and neither was her death. What happens when she starts finding connections, and clues hinting at a buried conspiracy, and a series of unexpected events unfold, linking Maple Ridge to her mom's death in more ways than she could have ever imagined. Highest rankings #1 in killer #1 in mystery-thriller #1 in murder #1 in depressed #1 in murdermystery #1 in secretorganization #2 in friendship #2 in agency [COMPLETE]

Abby Avery has always been secretly in love with Chase Mathews, her best friend's older brother, but he never cared for her. Chase just saw her as his little sister's nerdy best friend who's always in the background. Despite the years that have passed, Abby's heart still races every time she sees him, but she knows nothing would ever happen between them, or so Abby thought.

Clary is pronounced dead by the Clave, leaving Jace heartbroken and never the same. But when Jace saves a mundane that isn't a mundane at all and bares great resemblance to his dead Clary (not to mention the same name), questions and the past ghosts are raised, once again making him question the Clave. But convinced she is HIS Clary, the one rumoured dead by the Clave, Jace tries his very best to save her and bring her back to the Shadow World. To him. Things are complicated when they find something that can threaten the whole of the world-something far worse than Sebastian Morgenstern. Many are after it and the Clave are thrown into a havoc-especially since it involves Clary and Jace himself. Jace will stop at nothing to keep Clary safe his actions may cost him his Nephilim blood, his family and his ultimate love, Clary. _____________ © 2014 by @EndarkenedWarrior

Subscribe to my patreon for exclusive content, character back stories and unpublished chapters, including from the unpublished sequel! patreon.com/beccabuttabean You also have the option to be written into a chapter or into your very own short story! AUM: Ever since her parents were killed by a vampire, she made it her mission to hunt them all down to the very last one. Charlie Rose is a slayer; one of the best and youngest working for British Intelligence whilst simultaneously living a normal, high school student life. On one particular mission she is assigned to kill 41 vampires and succeeds almost entirely. The final one on her list turns out to be both beautiful and undeniably alluring. Neither are able to inflict harm on the other. She feels a crushing pull towards him, something she has never felt before, something that she hates to feel for such a creature. And now they are inescapably drawn to one another. She tries to deny him, fight him, hate him. But how do you resist fate? Death and danger lurk at every turn after they meet; her death sought out by the entirety of the vampire race. Can she accept him despite the creature that he is? Will the entirety of vampires, who do not accept her as their Prince's mate, manage to separate them for the infinite stretch of eternity? What is more, Charlie must come to terms with the notorious, sadistic and yet primarily desired vampire in existence who just happens to be her mate's older brother. Subsequently, any chances of love for her mate are put thoroughly through hell.

Zak Bagans/Ghost Adventures story. With Nick Groff having left the show, the network decides they want a female investigator to replace him. Zak Bagans is not happy. He has avoided getting close to women for over two years, after a series of bad experiences with past girlfriends. The last thing he needs is the beautiful, haunted woman that walked into his office. Her name is Alicia, and she's had paranormal experiences most of her life, and she's not your average woman in her Thirties. Alicia suffers from social anxiety, and that has prevented her from leading a normal life. She is a 32-year-old virgin, who has never been on a date, had never had a first kiss, and has herself convinced she'll be alone forever. Despite her differences, Alicia wants this chance at becoming a Paranormal Investigator because she wants answers. Answers about her experiences, and answers about her past. Will Alicia get the job? Will Alicia find the answers she's looking for? Will Zak finally let down the walls he's built up over the years? Will Alicia find the strength to convince herself she's worthy of a chance at love?