"Please don't leave." he pleaded. His once arrogant, obnoxious, confident gaze looked so vulnerable, helpless and most of all like the young little boy I once knew. "I have to, I've warned you time and time again you will regret your playboy ways one day and it seems that day has come." I said softly looking into his lost looking, soft orbs of blue and grey. Meet Carly Isabelle Edwards, once was a rebellious badgirl now is the passive good girl who only worries about her grades and getting into a renowned college. When she moves back to California with her mom, she meets her once sweet, naïve and caring childhood friend after almost four years; to only find out that he had grown to be the biggest, obnoxious playboy. Despite tons of arguments, fights and banter Carly and Mason are still best friends. Carly, however hates Mason's playboy ways and tries to change him but fails because of Mason's non-belief in real relationships and love. Carly's days of just worrying about school are gone. Her life has started revolving between relationships, feelings, love, hatred, old crushes, her past and even death. Will Carly succeed in changing Mason's point of view or will it be too late when he realizes it himself?

When she first heard about the stipulation in her mothers will, Trilby Gladstone spluttered with laughter. She assumed it was her mother's idea to get her smiling and laughing again. Knowing it was real certainly sobered up the situation. Work for the rest of her days as a cleaning lady for Chelsea Thompson or marry her son, William. The choices didn't seem any clearer when Will turned up with his fiancée Eve. Deciding to hide the truth of having to spend the rest of her her slaving away seemed the best idea. Will didn't need to know anything about her mother's crazy ideas. When Will starts showing a keen interest in Trilby's return, things begin to change. Keeping the truth from him now seemed perilous. Still, Trilby didn't want him to feel indebted to her. She begins to wonder how out of hands things could possibly get. What she didn't bet on was a sneaky mother, a greedy fiancée and a man who she had always wanted. Life it seemed was about to become complicated.

"Isn't she your toy?" "Yeah, but she's more than that." ** Gunner Drake Archer, the son of a retired Red Hooder, your average bad boy after a death that will forever mess with his head. Nothing means anything to Gunner anymore, not even his own family, which obviously, as every other bad boy, means he has to fulfill his boredom with girls. Making them fall in love with him before he breaks their hearts. Lily May Grace. Your beautiful, kind sweetheart who wouldn't hurt a fly. A girl who grew up with rainbows and sunshine's, until the worse. Her only goal is to find out who killed her wealthy beloved parents that were adored by everyone around them. Here's where an old friend that was banned from being her friend growing up comes in.

Aaliyah Hope Archer. The girl who gets along with everyone and the girl everyone loves. Aaliyah has the kindest, gentlest heart and soul that causes guys to instantly fall in love with her, which isn't really a big deal for her as she's never had feelings for anyone. Though, she does have two male best friends since pre-k, but other than that, she's kept her guard up with relationships after her father cheating on her mother. Wesley Conrad Price. The boy with insecurities and a shield around his weak heart. His mother left him and his father at the age of ten, which caused his insecurities about himself and his lifestyle to sky rocket. He has no friends, nor does he want any. He wears anything possible to hide his figure, but even the clothes he wears makes him self conscious. Days of Aaliyah and Wesley visiting the same coffee shop can turn into a road of recovery for the boy. But one thing, he's even insecure to be around a gorgeous girl like her.

[This story is free as of February 10, 2021] "Move over A Walk to Remember, and make way for one of the most heartwarming stories this side of Wattpad. It's so cute, I could cry (again)." - Grace @ HQ After tragedy strikes, Nolan loses all faith and never expects to love, let alone smile again until Nora-perky and persistent-walks into his life. ***** 15-year-old Nolan Haynes has everything. A loving family, a promising future as a filmmaker, and a pretty cool group of friends. That is until tragedy strikes and he's forced to move towns. Nolan vows never to let anyone in ever again-they always leave. But on a summer day two years later, when the super upbeat, Nora walks to his lunch table-Nolan has to try a bit harder to keep a smile off his face. Little does he know that Nora is fighting a battle of her own, one that no one could even imagine. And as the two get closer, they not only find solace in each other but in God. When Nolan is faced with a situation in which he has to break Nora's trust to protect her, can their budding relationship still stand and will God show up in all of this? [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story contains scenes of verbal and physical abuse that may be triggering for some readers. NOTICE: Before the Morning is currently undergoing revisions! A sensitivity reader (someone who goes through your manuscript and assesses representations in your work) identified a number of issues surrounding the Filipino representation in BTM. I'm rewriting with the goal of creating a more authentic and respectful story. I'm sorry for the pain I caused by failing to include accurate Filipino culture and in having written from Nora's point of view.

➸featured on the What's Hot list ➸winner of The Most Addictive Story in The Writers Awards 2017 ┈ ❝ i'm going to woo you; piece by piece, word by word, letter by letter. ❞ ┈ In which Nova Hart, a star badminton player and hopeless romantic who is viewed as a bimbo for her blonde locks and blue eyes, finds an anonymous note taped to her car's windshield along with her favourite flower. Seems like someone at Gallagher High is on a mission to win the unwinnable heart of Nova Hart. ┈ [Cliché with a twist]

{Watty Awards 2013 Winner} This is simply a story about a lonely girl who finds love. I was inspired to write this because I wanted to know that there are good things that happen to invisible girls like me. I wanted to write Hope for those who seem hopeless. • • • In March of 2013, Letters was #1 in the short story category. June 2013: Short Story #3 and Romance #40 February 2014: Winner of The Watty Awards 2013 for On The Rise Short Story

{Complete} {Book 4 in Dismantled Pride Series} --- It's been four years since they sealed the deal, and yet he still makes her heart flutter with the undeniable ache of desire. She loves him. More than she's loved anyone else before. It's just too bad he no longer feels the same way. Now it's up to Mercy to save her marriage, and she will do everything in her power to bring the passion back into their lives. But, while struggling to hold the broken fragments of her marriage together, tragedy strikes. With no other options, she's forced to abandon her hopes of rekindling that dying flame. But sometimes it takes letting go to realize that you weren't holding brokenness together at all... you were holding restoration back. --- Book 4 of The Dismantled Pride Series (though it can be read as a standalone... sorta.) Book 1: Porcelain Skin Book 2 : (coming soon) Book 3: Liquid Feels Note: This story has not been edited, so enter at your own risk. :)

~ Past separated them, now pain will bring them together.~ A teenager Sofia Hayden, experiencing her falling apart family isolated herself slowly from everything that she held dear, especially from her best friend Max Wilder who had just realized his love for her. It delivered Max the kind of grief that changed him radically. Misunderstanding turned his love into hatred. Max left with a broken heart and the ever burning hunger to give her back the same kind of pain she'd inflicted upon him. And he succeeded, coming back ten years later. Pity that he was still oblivious to many things. Silly that she still blamed herself. Then fate in the form of an old cupid named Robert Wilder and a humongous debt intervened. And a marriage made in hell was got in result. ~A journey of pain and revenge, hastily made wrong decisions and consequences will take them both somewhere, where they are meant to be.~ ~This is their bitter sweet tale of letting go; growing up and maybe along the way falling inevitably in love.~ *Stand Alone Book. Second draft.* !Warning: Go to Wattpad to read this story safely.