❝he's grey and skylar's color and they complement each other like hot rain on dry asphalt.❞ in which he has ptsd and doesn't do well with change. until her, that is. - I WROTE THIS WHEN I WAS THIRTEEN, OKAY. BE NICE. - all rights reserved 2013 © cathartics

in which a girl and a boy both feel like the puzzle piece that doesn't belong. "but they're all so-they're great, you know? girls all love them and i'm just me. i'm the thumb." "but a hand doesn't function without a thumb, z, remember that." or in other words, a collection of conversations between two lifelong best friends at half-three in the morning. (based off the song "half a heart") - all rights reserved 2014 © cathartics - january 27th: fanfiction #378, poetry #85

❝It was a little after eight-the sky a void of raspberry and periwinkle and lavender carnations-and possibly the most humid day in the middle of July when I first saw him tagging the side of an abandoned building next to the rundown Mini-Mart.❞ - Young Writer's Short Story Contest Finalist.

'"At least you're not the girl who rejected Liam Payne 22 times." Except I was.' Everybody has that one guy; the one that got away. But not everybody can say that it's Liam Payne, and not everybody can say that he's back after three years, and that he hates you. It's complicated. - all rights reserved 2013 © cathartics

To Dylan: i just miss you. - A series of texts in which she experiences depression in the most vicarious way possible, and love is just the tune playing lowly in the background. - [Trigger Warnings for: Depression, Thoughts of Suicide, Self-Harm] [Dylan is a boy, and Anabelle is a girl, to clear things up]

CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF BEING REWRITTEN!

What if there was necklaces given to us at birth that were half of a unique design and your soulmate wore the other half and they got warmer the closer together and colder the further away you were so you could go on this journey when your ready to find your other half minus all the pain and heartbreak of being played by some worthless jerk who isn't ready for a serious relationship like you are? Well this is Emerson's story and she is willing to share it.

AU in which people find their soul mates through matching tattoos that appear when they turn 18. [highest ranking - short story #138, fanfiction #369] [5SOS WATTY AWARDS 2014: UNDERDOG EDITION WINNER FOR BEST 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER & BEST PLOT]

"As soon as we were old enough, we learned about the ‘soulmate clock’, as they referred to it. We were taught that the days, the hours, the minutes, and the seconds were all counting down to the moment we would meet the one we were destined to be with all of our lives. The only one who could ever make us truly happy." Danielle learns about the secret behind the clock embedded on her wrist, and from then on she waits for her soulmate. She waits for eight years, and then moves on to Europe to study abroad, abandoning the notion of ever finding true love. But what will she think of the surprise in store for her in the alleyways of London?

"If a clock could count down to the moment you meet your soul mate, would you want to know?"