When you find an online post that sounds awfully familiar, and it sends you down a rabbit hole. A rabbit hole that shows you who your friend really is. This will be a really, really short story. Because of the format I may be doing this in. It will be odd and unique. And time consuming on my part once you see what I'm doing. So, super short. Like really, really short! You have been warned!

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Opie Swan used to believe in forever. Not the fairytale kind-the real kind. The kind you build with people who know you better than you know yourself. The kind she had with Paul Lahote and Jared Cameron. They weren't just her best friends. They were her home. Until one day... they changed. Paul was the first to pull away-distant, colder, like something inside him had shifted. And then Jared followed, leaving Opie behind with no answers, no explanations... and no one to hold onto. So she left. Months away in Canada were supposed to help her forget them. To piece herself back together. And for a while, it almost worked. Until her father calls her back to Forks. Back to the memories. Back to the boys who broke her. Back to the truth they never told her. Because Paul and Jared didn't just leave- they became something else. Something dangerous. Something bound by secrets... and instincts they can't control. And now that Opie is back, those instincts are pulling them toward her again. But she's not the same girl they left behind. This time, she won't chase. This time, they'll have to face what they did to her. And this time... loving them might cost her everything.

"who are you?" "If I tell you. will you still let me stay?" "Are you cat?" "Don't remember me, because if you do, I'll disappear like air." He found a cat in an alley and gave it a place to stay. It watched him like it already knew his name. Then one night, the cat vanished. A man appeared instead.. with the same eyes, the same possesiveess, and a presence that felt painfully familiar.

Gabriella showed up for him when it mattered most, believing she knew exactly where her life was going, until everything unraveled in a single moment she couldn't unsee. Walking away wasn't something she had planned, but it became the only choice she could live with. With nowhere else to turn, she leaves behind everything familiar and starts over in a quiet town that doesn't quite feel like home, trying to hold on to the part of herself that still feels like her. She tells herself it was the right decision, that some things can't be undone and are better left behind. But distance doesn't always bring clarity, and no matter how far she goes, the past has a way of following. Because some choices don't stay in the past, and some stories don't end just because you walk away. Updates weekly ✦

Sophia Bennett was forced into marriage with Adrian Whitmore after an unexpected pregnancy. For five years, she stayed in a marriage where Adrian loved only their daughter and treated Sophia like nothing more than a responsibility. But when Adrian starts an affair and even their daughter begins to grow close to his mistress, Sophia finally decides to leave. Just when Adrian realizes the value of the wife he never loved, Sophia has already started moving on. And this time, another man is ready to give her everything Adrian never could. Now Adrian must fight for the woman he took for granted... before he loses her forever.

Dr. Indiana "Indie" Miller never believed in fairy tales. How could she? Everything she accomplished was paid for with blood, sweat, and tears. Emancipated at sixteen, she attended medical school while juggling three jobs-and now she's completing her oncology residency. She never allowed herself the hope of being someone's first choice. Until her favorite patient introduces her to her grandson. Teddy Williams is everything she never dared to dream of. He's kind, steady, and completely devoted to her. Two years later, deeply in love and on the verge of an engagement, they're preparing to move across the country for Indie's dream job. Then Nana Ellie passes away. Without the woman who adored Indie there to shield her, Teddy's overbearing family begins crossing boundaries, convinced Indie isn't the right woman for him. But his childhood best friend-and ex-girlfriend-Lily? She's perfect. They grew up together. Their mothers are best friends. To everyone else, it looks like the perfect second-chance love story. But Indie is in the way, and the family does whatever it takes to make sure that she feels unwelcome. As the pressure builds and the disrespect becomes impossible to ignore, Teddy finds himself caught between the family he was raised to put first... and the woman he loves more than anything. He chooses wrong. And he loses Indie. Quickly, he realizes his mistake and discovers just how deep his family machinations go. Will it be too late to prove to Indie that she is his one and only choice? Because Indie Miller is done waiting for a fairy tale. This time, she's going to make one for herself. TROPES: ⚠️ OW drama ⚠️ emotional manipulation ⚠️ GROVEL ⚠️ strong but kind FMC ⚠️ gentle giant MMC ⚠️ no cheating ⚠️ HEA with original couple

PEARL: The world is my canvas, and you are merely a brushstroke. I will paint you a perfect love story, and you will call it fate. You will never see the razor in the rose. PHOENIX: I have studied the architecture of madness my whole life. I know how monsters are built. I recognize the cold, clean lines of a predator in a pretty face. He chose her. He chose the story she wrote for him. And now I must tear the pages apart before the final chapter kills him. PATRICK: They say you find your missing piece. I found mine. And in doing so, I shattered the soul who was my true reflection. She saw the storm coming while I was still admiring the lightning. Now the woman I pushed away is the only one who can pull me from the fire... if I haven't already burned her too badly.

He had no home. No family. No place to return to. Each night, he wandered the streets, surviving on scraps of food. The world had forgotten him long ago-he was a ghost in a city too busy to care. She was four months pregnant, with nowhere to go. Her in-laws had shut the door in her face the moment her husband left her. One betrayal-and suddenly she was nothing more than a burden. Her belly grew heavier with life, while her heart sank deeper into despair. It was on a stormy night that their paths crossed. Rain fell in torrents, soaking through the thin layers that barely shielded them from the cold. The wind howled like a wounded animal, echoing the ache in their chests. She sat beneath the shelter of a crumbling bus stop, shivering, clutching her stomach. He stood nearby, just far enough to be unnoticed, yet close enough to hear the quiet sobs she tried to silence. Their eyes met-not out of curiosity, but out of recognition. Two abandoned souls. Two people the world had spit out, left to shiver in the dark. He offered her his coat, damp and threadbare, but warmer than the concrete. She shared the last piece of bread she had stolen from a corner store earlier that day. They didn't speak much that night. Pain had its own language, and they were fluent. In the silence, something fragile began to grow. Not quite trust. Not yet love. But something tender and aching,like a bruise that could one day heal. They began to take care of each other. He found safer alleys to sleep in. She taught him how to warm water over a discarded tin can. They protected each other, shared food, kept watch while the other slept. In the wreckage of their separate heartbreaks, a love story began. Not the kind written in fairy tales or sung about in ballads. But a quiet, defiant kind of love- The kind that blooms in the cracks of concrete, between the forgotten and the damned. A love story born between two abandoned hearts- left behind by the world, but not by each other.

Well, Red was watching a YouTube short where a guy shared his experience of his 20-year marriage, and Red couldn't control herself - she ended up writing a short story inspired by it. Red hopes you all enjoy it! With love, Red Cover credit goes to vecteezy.com