A thorn in the heart can cause a lot of damage. The pain is unbearable but if you pull it out then you might just bleed to death. When Xori moves 3,000 miles away from home for college she kisses Ash goodbye. But the pain in her heart is like a thorn. She is torn on what to do. Does she leave the love of her life for the joys of college, or does her college experience suffer because of this thorn? This story is previously known as Blooming

[WATTYS SHORTLIST - 2021] Penny Lane, a young florist with a dislike of weddings and a dream of opening her own flower shop, has to overcome her insecurities to find love with Haze Delacroix, the charismatic owner of Underworld Delicacies, who charms his way into her heart by means of culinary delights, namely delicious pomegranates. ---------- Contemporary Romance inspired by the myth of Hades & Persephone. ******** THIS IS ONLY A SAMPLE - READ THE FULL STORY ON GALATEA

From Wattpad story to published book to a movie! Watch your favorite coming-of-age camp romance come to life on screen now! *** After running away from her problems for four years - her inability to run a mile ironically being one of them - Whitney Carmichael knows a fitness camp will kick start some change in her life. Little does she expect her high school archenemy will be there trying to make amends. Or that she'll ditch her wallflower status and find herself at the center of a web of toxic friendships and petty lies. And working out? It's not so bad when her new personal trainer, Axel Chandler, is pretty easy on the eyes...and she has everything to lose. [Wattys 2015 Talk of the Town winner]

"Chrissy! Open the door!" Just as I'm watering my beautiful kumquat and trying to distract myself, the phone beeps, and I growl as I realize that I'm not the only whose day was ruined because of Mr. fungus's annoyingness. Is this your hot boss shouting your name from the street? - Ginko Determined to rip his head for the endless hours of gossip he's just granted my neighbors, I storm out of the kitchen and stand on the single vacant tile of my jungle of a balcony. "What do you want?" I try to keep my voice as low as possible, but the windows opening across the entire street tell me that this is by no means a private conversation. "We need to talk." "You mean that you want to find a new way of sucking the sap out of me, and using me like you always do?" "I'm sorry for what happened, Chrys. I truly am!" he finally concludes, his eyes refusing to let mine go. A wave of Aws passes over the street as the single ladies strategically standing on their balconies swoon at the fit for a rom-com scene. Little do they know is that they just fell for another trick of the master of opportunism. Planning on hissing on him and going back in, I take a deep breath and brush a hand through my tangled hair. Much to my dismay, my elbow knocks one of the many aloe vera pots, and soon enough, it rains plant and flowers on the guy as the audience gasps in terror. 🍂 Human Botany 101 🍂

| #2 in freshmanyear | Veronica spent her entire high school career avoiding the world, she never wanted attention and always stayed away from the populars and she intended to do the exact same in college. After spending three months at in an early admission program at OSU, summer has come to an end and now her real college life begins. On the night before her first day she is caught in an awkward situation involving a co-ed bathroom, a makeout session and a gorgeous stranger. It's fine though it's a big school and she will probably never have to see him again or so she thought, he is everywhere turns out Mr. Gorgeous is also Mr. Bigshot on campus and her new roommate's bestfriend. All she wanted to do was stay invisible and get through her freshman year instead she's about to be the one in the spotlight, literally.

a collection of 12 poems about the befores and afters of love. some mature themes. ★ 3RD PLACE POETRY: the annual medley awards 2018 ★

How exactly did I end up the best friend of the guy I hated my entire life? Listen, this is going to be a long story. Let me take you to the beginning. The year was 1992... ENEMIES-TO-FRIENDS-TO-LOVERS Victor Manning has been infuriating Becka since she sat behind him in 7th grade English. He's cocky, self-centered, and obnoxious. When High School ends, the college dynamic slowly turns Victor into the one person Becka cannot live without. "The best slow burn I've ever read." YA/NA, for cursing. Set in the 1990s.

Rosalie Harness is a typical seventeen year old teenager, she goes to school, dates, parties and all other typical teenage things. But there is one thing which is not so typical, she got kicked out of her own house, by her own parents! Not because she is a rebel, far from that, simply because she existed. So when she finds a perfect place to stay, there is one problem. She has a roommate, a male roommate, who happens to be the hottest boy in her school; Vincent Clarke. Secrets are told. Deep Secrets. And you realize, not everything is what it seems...

[Billionaire / Fake Relationship] The last thing Livy expects is to fall for Logan, the hot but damaged billionaire who wants to help her pay for her dad's medical bills. The catch: they have to pretend to be married for one year! ***** How far would you go to save the only family you've ever known? Olivia, a lifelong optimist, has just graduated from college and is about to start a new job when she gets the earth-shattering news that her dad is ill. Scared, she drops everything and moves home to be with him. While walking on the beach one day, she runs into the most attractive man she has ever laid eyes on. The chemistry between them is sizzling from the first moment. Turns out, he is rich, successful, and battling the demons of a past relationship that has left him broken. But when he finds out that Livy needs help paying for her dad's medical bills, he jumps to her rescue. The catch: they have to pretend to be happily married for at least one year. Enough time for her to get the trust fund money her grandma left her so that she can pay him back, and enough time for him to change his bad boy reputation. But things get complicated when feelings and a burning desire enter the picture. [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston

Her... A story about a girl who is always happy, has a happy go lucky nature, believes that everything happens for a reason however bad that thing might be, many envy her because of her nature, they claim that she is just "too happy" to be true but what they don't know is that she is just wearing a facade to the world, she is more than broken, fighting her own battles to survive, the wounds are deep but no one can see them because they are the wounds that scarred her soul... Him... A boy who, well just happens to know exactly who the girl is, but just pretends not to know just to make her feel comfortable. But he is determined, determined to make her see that the world is not as cruel as she believes it to be..... And he will do everything to make sure she flies again and why won't he after all he loves her inside out from the day he has known her.... To know how she flies again and if he will be able to heal her completely, read this story! I'm not perfect neither is my book. Read only when you are ready for imperfections. 🙃 Cover credits go to @TheWritersOscars They made this beautiful cover for me. Do check out their graphics shop! 😃 This story is a work of my imagination and no one is allowed to copy any part of it. Thank you (: