When former beauty pageant queen, Ellie Wilde, hears of her grandmother's sickness, she's the first to offer to drive her to her chemotherapy. What she didn't know she was agreeing to was an obnoxiously cheerful blond boy somehow nudging his way into her life. ©iwearheelys, all rights reserved.

It doesn't matter how she ended up in this four-walled room. What matters is she gets out. ***** After a night out in New York City, Liliana Rossi wakes up in a windowless room with no recollection of how she got there. And she's not alone. The dark and tattooed Mateo Aguilar is also held captive. As the two struggle to survive and hatch an escape plan, they also struggle with growing attraction toward each other, facing Lili with the biggest question yet: is Mateo the reason she's here, or the one who's going to save her? ✨ Wattys 2018 Shortlist & Featured Story ✨ Content warning: this story references themes that readers might find triggering, including drug use and sexual assault. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]] Cover designed by Stefanie Saw

❝ the heart was made to be broken ❞ -oscar wilde. in which ramona loves too easily and gets her heart broken, several times, by several different people. #300 SS | originally published in 2016, republished in 2018 |

When Helena finds a phone on the night train, she decides to text the first number in the list of contacts in order to figure out who it belongs to. ***** Helena Santos hasn't had the easiest life. At twenty-one, she's the legal guardian of her teenage sister, in the final year of her nursing degree, and working night shifts at her small-town's local bar. And things get a lot more complicated when she finds a phone on the train home and decides to text the first number in the list of contacts, in hopes of tracking down its owner. That contact? Adam Bauer; the charismatic, sweet, and refreshingly honest older brother of the person who lost their phone. As the two continue talking, they can't ignore the chemistry and growing feelings between them, but life is never that simple. To make things work, Helena and Adam need to juggle a troubled sister, a meddlesome ex-boyfriend, and one fat lawsuit - all intent on keeping them apart. [[word count: 40,000-50,000 words]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story contains swearing, mature themes, and sexual content.

The little blue house at 28 Lilywhite Lane has been vacant for half a year, but Shawn can't bring himself to forget the two sisters that used to live inside it, and everything that happened to them. Everything he did to them. When Willa Knight moves in to that little blue house across the street, Shawn is determined not to like her. She is stubborn and unapologetic and maybe a little more alluring than he'd like to admit. He thinks it's better to keep her away from him and the mess he's made. He thinks it's better if he ignores her effect on him. That, Shawn soon learns, is a lot easier said than done. - cover by hystericals -

my throat went dry as i look at my timer, it's stopped. i check her own, if i was having a malfunction in mine. to my luck, hers was stopped as well. moving her brunette locks out of her face, the sound of my heart beat match hers from her monitor. it's really her... she's my soulmate. (s.m) lowercase intended | copyright 2016

"i could pull the stars down from the sky and give them to you, and you would still find a reason to say no, wouldn't you, gemma? you would still fucking go choose him." i felt like the world was crashing down on me. the one person i was completely confident in, the one person who i thought i knew like i knew myself is mad at me. and it was all my fault. "shawn, i -" "save it, gem," he said. "don't call me when he breaks your heart again." + + + - loosely based off of heartbreak girl by 5sos & treat you better by shawn mendes - started: 02/16/18 completed: lol we'll see

Shawn Mendes is the Junior Class President of his University. He's the guy everyone wants to hang out with, the guys want to be him and the girls want to be under him. He's the friendliest guy known to man, and to everyone on the outside he's practically perfect. He's just too good. But she see's right through him, because to everyone she's invisible. But she can see through the fake smiles and those hidden tired eyes. She knows he's suffering just like her..

she can see his face. feel his embrace. but the one thing she can't do is hear the music that she inspires. (s.m) lowercase intended | copyright 2017

"i'm never gonna fall for a monster." "oh, darling. you already have." lowercase intended | copyright 2016