A short story about Chris finding his way back to his one and only love, Natalie.

Background: 35th Century, Martial Law, Schools no longer teach academics, but fighting. This is it, the apocalypse.

I ran through the corridor, not caring what would happen to me. I needed to find out about my parents - the only people I had in the world that were taken away from me. Damien tried to stop me but I ignored him. I bursted through the door and saw the despicable woman, dressed up in her usual lab coat and her hair in her usual clean bun. "Where are they, Iris?" I screamed her name as venomously as I could as I grabbed her shoulders. "Didn't I tell you that the well being of society is fabricated around trust? Well, you are disappointing me dearly by not trusting me," she responded as she it a hand on my head, ignoring my question. I moved away and I was too slow. She slapped me hard. I fell down, clutching my painfully stinging cheek. "You do not boss me around and you do exactly as I say! I shall not tolerate any pest nuisance! Damien, bring her to the probe room." He entered the door, regret in his eyes. Despite that, he still obeyed. I was betrayed and alone. I was a runaway.

"The problem is not with you, it's without you." A promise made, a promise kept. A promise kept, a promise broken. Katherine Rivers and Julian Trent have a relationship no one can measure. It was unlike any other. It was perfect. Too perfect. Promises are shared, mistakes are made, and hearts get broken. A journey throughout life without pain is just not exciting. But so is too much pain. Words are scattered and hidden, never been found. After all, what is love without a little mystery?

Sequel to "Secrets"

Abril has a secret...she's the daughter of the richest man in the county, but because of a childhood incident she decides she can't tell anyone, even her five quirky best friends. But what happens when the secret begins to get harder to keep? Especially when the one person she didn't want to know finds out, and it's not quite the reaction she was expecting from him.