Second Thoughts

Personal essays about life : identity, women, widowhood, families, relationships, love, money and much more

A Muslim's Romantic Journey

As a Muslim girl, marriage is one of Safia's biggest dreams. All her life she kept herself pure for her faith and her future husband. Although having never had experienced love, and occasionally doubting whether she will, Safia feels herself growing impatient being single. She then sends her family to search for 'the...

The Little Black Book For Guys: Guys Talk About Sex

A survival guide to being a guy. Lots of guys talk the big talk, but what's really going on with sex? That's what a group of young men sat down to figure out for The Little Black Book for Guys. To get behind the hype, they talked to other teens and collected stories, poems, essays and art about personal experiences...

Tag Me! Few Facts About Me.

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Remember When #featured #AllStars

#1 Teen Romance on Amazon #1 New Adult #1 Romantic Comedy **Trip Wiley used to merely be the gorgeous new guy at Layla Warren's Catholic high school. Years later, he just happens to be Hollywood's hottest commodity.** Years before Trip Wiley could be seen on movie screens all over the world, he could be seen sitting i...

Someone Else's Fairytale

Hollywood A-lister, Jason Vanderholt, falls for everygirl, Chloe Winters, who hasn't bothered to see most of his movies. She is the woman every other woman in America is dying to be, but it just isn't her fairytale. The book is for sale here: amazon.com/Someone-Elses-Fairytale-ebook/dp/B006JD115K/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_...

Finding Cinderella

A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love has conditions: they agree it will last only one hour, and it will be only make-believe. When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to...

Confident Women (Extract)

*SYTYCW winner* Inspired by a list of confidence-boosting tips in a magazine, twenty-four-year-old Megan Riley decides it's about time she became a confident woman. But after stumbling over the easy points such as buying a bra and learning to cook, how is she going to survive asking a guy out? NOTE: This is a sample o...

Made With Love

My name is Julie Quinn and I've been a New Yorker all my life. Life was good. I was swamped with work doing a job that I loved and I was dating the best boyfriend I'd ever had the pleasure to. I have always been a strong-willed and independent woman - or as my best friend puts it "control freak" - and even more after...

Casanova In Love

Ethan Salvay drives expensive cars and lives life like a king. No one thought that this billionaire was going to fall in love. But...always expect life to take unexpected turns... Dana Johnson is a hard worker. She is smart, witty and knows just how to put guys like Ethan Salvay in their place. The day their paths cr...

A Blind Date

When Cassandra William's boyfriend of 6 months ditches her, she is set up on blind date after blind date after blind date. What happens when one mystery man leaves her banging her head against the wall? What happens when they meet again? Join Cass on her journey of awkward dates, parties and late night cuddling. Th...

Promises Made, Promises Broken - SYTYCW (Bad Reputation)

Joey is too charming for words, drifting through college on a trust fund and a gorgeous smile. Tucker is kind-hearted and community minded, without an ounce of patience for guys with big trucks and even bigger egos. Both are trying to outrun their pasts. Both have something to prove. She wants to save a small part of...

Burning Moon (Wattpad Version)

(#1 ChickLit) WARNING: Being left at the altar in front of 500 wedding guests may lead to irrational behavior, causing you to go on your honeymoon alone. Other side- effects may include very bad hair, getting arrested, setting yourself on fire, landing up on a "Missing Poster" with the same bad hair and unexpectedly f...

30 Before 30

30 Before 30. Thirty days in Europe. Thirty inspired moments of adventure to live it up before my 30th birthday. Just the idea of it gave me purpose. Here was a reminder that I could choose a new path, even if it was only for 30 days. A little background first. Ten years ago, if you had told me that at 29, a normal we...

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**WINNER of The People's Choice Watty Award** Finn Harlow met his soulmate in kindergarten, but fate wasn't kind and she ended up marring his best friend. After years of watching in silent agony, he's certain he's met a girl who can finally mend his broken heart--until he finds her in the arms of her lover. In walks...

Sunnah is My Style!

Have you ever felt so frustrated that you feel like kicking those lofty fashion-controlling guys and their switching styles when you find that your new hairstyle, which you got after much begging and coaxing your parents, just went out of fashion? And what about that special celebrity-like dress which you bought after...

Musings Of A Modern Muslimah

The random rantings of a Muslim teenage girl whisking away her woes and troubles on the oh so comforting digital pages of Wattpad. Expect randomness, thoughtful contemplations and the occasional "speaking-to-myself" montages. Step foot inside my digital journal and do not be afraid to laugh, cry uncontrollably or give...

What HE Really Did -Song

A song I wrote for people who have been taken advantage of. It speaks for itself.

Love Sucks

Take Sarah; the hard-hearted, inexperienced, unpopular teenage girl. Take Carla and Danielle, the over-active, crazy bestfriends. Take some hot, needy teenage boys. She doesn't want a boyfriend, or anything to do with the entire species overall, but somehow- they keep finding her. Unable to fight it, she goes along w...

All About Wicca

Heyya, I wanted to start this for people who are interested in Wicca, or for those who just wanted to learn more. Wicca is put down a lot in many societies and and is just misunderstood thanks to Hollywood. I found a lot of the information in my own time thanks to the dedicated followers of Wicca. You can read this if...

Road To Success(Completed)

A very true story! A mother's heart I shattered when the proficient coach of the sport her child is playing announces to her that her daughter does not have the zing, the X factor to pioneer in the sport that she so enjoys and works hard for. However the mother refuses to be discouraged and with persistency manages to...

Here to Help

How to Guide. Life Tips. DIYs & More (Updates are every Sunday) - Completed Closed for Request! Helping People since 4/20/14 Comment 'ily' if I've helped! #3 in outfits ??! damn that's pretty cool, thx guys! #3 in here to help Note: I wrote this a while ago so there's probably a lot of grammar mistakes and typos! Fai...

Life's Exceptional Challenges

As we journey, we come through different circumstances of ups and downs. No matter how hard, we have overcome these because we believed. Now,what if you are in the shoes of the characters involved, what will you feel? Will you do the same as how they faced it or do you have a better option? Friends, these are stories...

Where We Stand

Naomi Jacobs never thought she'd get caught in the middle of the most ridiculous prank of the year: a rat infestation in her school. Left with no other choice but to complete thirty six hours of mandatory volunteer activities with Carlos Moralez, the least she expects is to enjoy his company. But the more time she spe...

Compositions of Us

Olivia Harris has one dream: to become a professional photographer. She’s determined and even went out of her way to intern at a well known photography company. Olivia knows that doing so may give her an opportunity to pursue her dream a step further. What she doesn't know is that, sometimes, expectations don't go as...

Starstruck

humor #01 & teen fic #02 Alyssa Taylor is famous, well famous on Youtube, that is. Doing covers of popular songs and her sassy personality has gotten her from a small town in Northern California to the big city in Southern California. That isn't enough though, for Alyssa is striving for one thing: to make it in the m...

Mr. Popular and I

"You and I both know that any girl would kill to be in your position, with me, right now." He smirks, knowing that what he's said is completely and utterly true. Lea Wilson and River Parker don't mix; they don't like the same things, their lives are majorly different. But, what if these two people who are least expect...

The Devil Is My Guardian

One thing I'll always remember is my parents saying "Everyone has a story" "Everyone has a story with a past, tragic or not. Everyone has a story that is meant to go unjudged, even if it was never told" But sometimes we forget that. Like when I though that my guardian was the devil. Even though he taught me how to lau...

The Gentleman

He oozes raw sexuality as he enters the dimly lit club silencing the admirers that looks upon him with wonder. Lust and jealousy envelopes the night with hypnotise stares. His dark piercing eyes makes them undone with slightly parted lush lips; he sensually runs his magical fingers through his untamed hair leaving shu...

Secret Life at Boarding School (COMPLETE)

When her best friend Cody Walker left her hanging by attending St. Mary's, Washington's most prestigious school for the rich and spoiled, Kellie Parker was devastated. Nevertheless, the perfect, beautiful, and rich Kellie Parker soon came after him because she couldn't bear the fact that her best friend was gone any l...