Ella was beautiful. Ella was fast. Ella was gone. Ella was never coming back.

- Formerly a standalone story named 'Free', Winner of Prompt #26 by ChickLit - 'The Playground' comprises of short stories based on writing prompts from various genres of Wattpad.

Kintana Foulke is a planner. She made sure that everything in her life had its home. However, life as a girlboss is never easy especially when she had a close-minded boss, annoying parents who never understood any part of the life she wanted to build for herself, and a collection of jilted arranged engagements. The only part of her life that seemed untouched and made sense was the world she built on the Coffee Shop by the sea and one handsome, mysterious stranger. But what if that was about to change too? 3:00 A.M. A coffee shop. Two strangers. A hot chocolate. An espresso. A country song. A confession. A proposal. And a brewing love.

"If you were a classic, you'd be a terrible one." Derrek retorted, seeming to pull inspiration for the jab from the aged novels around them. Meria snorted, rolling her eyes. "That's every classic." ||Ranked #20 in WKLYPrompts|| ||Ranked #99 in Chicklit|| || Winner of the Week 11 Weekly Prompt on Chicklit || ||♥ Please vote and comment if you enjoyed this!|| ||Cover by @sarcastics||

At 00:00, Cinderella ran away from her prince, leaving a glass slipper on the marbled steps of the grand staircase. At 00:00, I ran away from him. Unlike Cinderella, I didn't leave a single thing behind. © sonderingly