[ desi university romance × forced housemates × (kind of) enemies to lovers ] ━━━━━━━━━━ where adhi and maya are forced to share an apartment for the semester ━━━━━━━━━━ - #1 of 'the fiasco trilogy' - a novella [ 7.5k words ]

-- "i like you. i wished i told you earlier" @chaeryyrania, 2023 --- short notes that draws a story.

Nicola and Colwen have been friends since childhood, could it possibly lead into anything more. *** Meet Nicola, a twenty-five-year-old woman. Ready to find love. Tired of seeing everyone around her in a relationship, she decided to go out of her way in order to find her Mr Perfect. But finding love might be harder than it seems especially when your best friend/boss Colwen Bass keeps doing everything he can to end every one of your relationships. Not to mention, he is the hottest guy in town who might be secretly in love with her. Join Nicola on her road to finding her perfect gentleman, maybe he might not be as far as she thinks. ©Essi T K (2022)

"How about another scoop of ice cream? On the house this time." It's the summer before Bello goes to college when she finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her. Karabelo Green is a seventeen year old high school graduate born in the city of Maseru Lesotho. Raised by strick parents has never been easy for her, because her parents want her to follow her elder sister's footsteps. Go to school, get good marks, keep your head down, graduate and get a good paying job then marry a well mannered boy. All she wants is to follow spend summer holidays in Cape Town with her boyfriend, and she's willing to lie to her parents to make that happen. What happens when she finds her boyfriend with another girl, cheating. Maybe ice cream is just what she's looking for to mend her broken heart. After all there's nothing a scoop of ice cream can't heal right? Cover by @bxllatrxx

Arthur Nicholas, the CEO of one of the largest groups in the world, the Nicholas Group, is a multi-billionaire who has everything a person can think of. From being extremely handsome to having women throw themselves at him. Rosanna Martin, a kind, beautiful, happy-go-lucky, hard-working girl, has no one except her best friend Emilia Daisy. Unfortunately, her parents passed away when she was very little and was raised by her grandmother, but she too passed away when Rosanna was in high school. Arthur is a distant, cold-hearted, and arrogant individual who takes pride in himself. He is very well respected in the business world and is practically a genius. His every move often makes headlines in the media, and they think that the woman who's going to marry him must have done seven lives of good deeds. Having grown up seeing unfaithful relationships from childhood around him, Arthur doesn't believe in love. Who's going to make him believe it? Is he ever going to show his lovable side which he hides under his cold demeanour from the world? What will he do when he falls in love? Will his family accept the woman he loves? To what extent can he go for her? Even though she got little love in her childhood, Rosanna has so much love to give. Who's she going to give all her love to? What will she do when she falls in love with a man who is way out of her reach? What is she going to do when she learns a shocking secret? Though they come from very different worlds, their lives are intertwined. This story follows how they must overcome every obstacle in their lives to be in each other's arms happily. Want to know about their beautiful journey in detail? Read this story to find out.

(Discontinued, this story will not be updated nor finished) Life was supposed to be easy, with God by my side I thought I wouldn't face any difficulties but yet all my life I have been faced with storm after storm each one stronger to overcome then the last. Parts of me were stripped away while I was stuck in those tornados of sin. I thought running away to New York would shield me from the demons of my past, but they have followed and plan to break my heart once again by creating a deadly love triangle. Forcing me to make a choice that I fear I cannot make because how can I choose the man who calls to me in every sense but then reject the man that sets my body on fire with a simple murmur... *********************************************************************************************** Awards:

When her favorite bakery is at risk of being shut down, Charm Cunningham takes it upon herself to save it with the help of the bakery's newest (and annoyingly cute) employee. [watty's shortlist 2022]