Avoiding Stories

Lileigh who lives her whole life with attachment struggles, now living in a new town, is on a tight rope on having lingering feelings to someone....

Mike spent his entire life believing that love was just another form of abandonment. At thirty-five, he is a brilliant inventor known for creating machines that save lives, yet he cannot save himself. Hidden inside a dark house of black walls and grey shadows, he has built a life where logic replaces emotion and isolation feels safer than connection. Then Elara arrives. Twenty-seven years old, from another country, intelligent, persistent, and impossible to ignore, she sees something in Mike that no one else has ever bothered to understand. The more he pushes her away, the closer she gets to the truth behind the man everyone fears. But some wounds are older than love. Some scars teach people to run before they can be left behind. As secrets surface, trust shatters, and a devastating betrayal threatens everything they have built, Mike is forced to face the one thing he has avoided his entire life: himself. Yet Elara has secrets of her own. Secrets she has buried beneath her smile. Secrets that connect their stories in ways neither of them could have imagined. A haunting, emotional journey about childhood wounds, loneliness, healing, and the courage to let someone stay, The House That Refused the Sun is a story that asks a heartbreaking question: What if the person who understands your pain carries a darkness even deeper than your own? For readers who love emotional romance, psychological depth, unforgettable characters, and stories where healing is the greatest love story of all. Some hearts aren't cold. They're just protecting what broke them. By Nesrin

The Case Study of a Sun-God I. Observations on the Physics of Heat - They tell you not to look directly at the sun. They say it will ruin your vision, but they never mention how the darkness feels twice as heavy once you've glimpsed the gold. - The wax doesn't melt all at once. It weeps. It's a slow, stinging brand down the spine-a reminder that you are made of earthly, fragile things, and she is made of the celestial. II. A List of Sins I Have Gulped Down 1. The way her ink-stained thumb looks against the white of a page. 2. The number of freckles dotted along her face is 23 and In the right light you can connect them to my constellation. 3. The realization that I would rather be a handful of beautiful ash than a mountain of marble. 4. The fact that I don't want to be saved. I want to be consumed. III. On the Subject of Theology I am told that I hate her. I tell myself the same thing when the sun gets too hot and my skin begins to blister. I say I hate this as the feathers tear away, as the sky turns into a furnace, as the gravity of her existence pulls the marrow from my bones. For what was the purpose of a religion, if not to drown in the god you've chosen? IV. The Anatomy of the Fall Icarus didn't fall because he was a fool. He fell because he finally tasted the air outside of the labyrinth and realized that a life spent running is no life at all. He looked at the sun-at the terrifying, radiant heat of it-and decided to stop apologizing for his hunger. I am late to my own life. I am a ghost in a house of silver and shadows, trying to remember what it feels like to be warm. I'm sorry I called it hatred. I'm sorry I pushed you away. I'm sorry I'm getting blood on the gold. I just wanted to see if you were real. I didn't fly too high by accident. I offered myself up. V. Footnotes - The sun doesn't actually make a sound, but in my head, it resembles her laugh. - I think I might be dying. - How lovely it is to burn with you. - Are you even listening?

When I saw him I thought it's not same as before but little did I know..

a bts velvet fanfic with main couple being SeulMin JungRi VRene JinJoy.a bit of WenGa here and there.it may include other idols too.the story revolves around Destination wedding.i hope you all enjoy it :)

teenage love ig shy avoidant girl x popular sarcastic guy prob sum 500 days of summer, lara jean type shi English is not my first language sorry

Hand holding, backstage, seasons, avoidance

Avery Carter is done with the dating games. After consoling her heartbroken best friend, Avery and her four closest friends make a pact. For the next 12 months the girls will play the game. They come up with a strict set of dating rules: keep it fun, never get attached and always leave first. No emotional attachments. That is until she meets Austin Headrick, a charming, slightly nerdy journalist who's researching modern dating habits for an article. She decides to make him her next challenge. As she plays her flirtatious games, he turns the tables on her. Avery starts to realize that the man she is trying to keep at a distance, is playing the game to her heart.

Alexa Rudelle, has vowed to steer clear of boys for the summer and a holiday with her best friend Lorena Santos, before university starts seems just perfect. But her plan comes crashing down once she meets Aaron Saud, she finds herself helplessly falling out of place in her life. She tries to keep her promises, but some are just to tempting to break. Can she change for herself or even others?

Everytime I think of him, I'm wondering what if I tell him what I really feel, pero laging umeepal yung ewan ko kung demonyo ba o anghel sa isipan ko, lagi niyang sinasabing, what if he doesn't like you, what if your friendship will ruined, what if there are many things that prevent you from loving each other. there are so many what if.Kaya pinili kong itago ito, pinipilit kong pigilan ang puso kong mahalin siya, pero hanggang saan ba aabot ang pagpipigil ko, i don't want to get to the point where i'll regret not telling him that, because he might be in love with someone else. Sabi nga nila "nasa huli ang pagsisisi."

"So, let me get this straight," I looked at him weirdly, raising my hands slightly in exclamation. "You like me?!" I asked him in disbelief. "Like or like-like?" I really can't get my head to process his words at the moment. "Is it weird that I don't." He simply replied, his voice sounded calm but serious at the same time. "And for your question, I do. I do like-like you. Like, I really like you. To the point that you're the only thing that's on my mind everyday and I can't seem to get you off it." I was literally standing there like an idiot, slowing blinking my eyes in a slow pace, still can't believe what's actually happening in front of me. ______________________________ ( Partially Edited.) First Published: July 23, 2020 Finished: October 16, 2021

Staying busy to avoid the slightest thought, sight, and feeling of you.

The last thing that Juliana Jackson remembered of that night, was glass shatterin' around her. From the windshield of the SUV, to the windows on every side of her... it didn't matter. The last things that she saw that night, that were able to make sense for her in any way, were a pair of dark brown animalistic eyes... and broken glass. 《Book 1》 Juliana Jackson is a member of the Quilete Tribe and she has lived in La Push her entire life. She was never one to really and truly believe in the legends of the Quilete, but she had never outright and totally disregarded them either. When her best friend since birth Paul Lahote suddenly stops speaking to her, starts avoiding her, it's worse than she could imagine, because he couldn't have possibly picked a worse time to do so. After going on an ill-advised trip along with her family into the mountains, they were attacked by something. Juliana could have sworn she heard a lot of hissing, as well as some howling that same night. But after she wakes up from the accident. All she feels is panic, grief and agony over the fact that her family is the one thing that she doesn't have anymore. But Juliana wasn't so sure about his so-called worse 'anger issues', having seen some of his original fits and being the only one to successfully calm him down without getting hit. The world goes to complete hell in a handbasket, naturally, when she finds out that she was not who she always thought that she was all along. {After Twilight, Pre-during New Moon} [Books and Movies] [I own nothing except for Juliana and some of the plotlines that might only apply to her, and were not featured either in the movie saga, or the book series] Started: 10/09/2020 Finished: 10/26/2020