Choosingyourself Stories

"And Now We Are Free" by Rhianne Elisse was raised to be someone's perfect bride-poised, polished, and promised to a man she no longer recognizes. But when she slowly walks away from an arranged (and loveless) engagement and a future she never truly wanted, Elisse begins to discover who she is beneath the expectations. With the help of loyal friends, quiet rebellion, and a few bitter run-ins with the past, she starts to reclaim her voice-and her freedom. In a world where appearances mean everything, Elisse is about to learn that choosing yourself is the boldest act of all.

She loved the wrong one first. Not loudly. Not desperately. Just quietly enough to lose herself in the process. When it ended - before it ever truly began - she didn't break in front of anyone. She rebuilt herself alone. This is not a story about revenge. It's about becoming. About choosing yourself when no one else does. And about discovering that the right love doesn't arrive like a storm - it arrives softly, and it stays.

I don't remember when I started loving him. Maybe it was the way he smiled- like the world had never hurt him. Or maybe it was the way he said my name, so casually, like it didn't mean everything to me. The truth is... I fell for him slowly. And then, all at once. He became my habit. My comfort. My favorite thought before sleeping. And I? I was just... someone he talked to when he was bored. Funny, right? How you can give someone your whole heart- and they don't even notice it's yours. But the worst part isn't that he didn't love me. The worst part is... he loved someone else. _________________~~~~~________________ Ayesha Sharma, a careless and a free girl with mature nature and loved Aayan with her whole heart . she never asked any promises in return . she just wanted to be with him . Her love for him was pure like lotus and she really loved him. I Just Wanted Him is an emotional journey of a girl who falls deeply in love with someone who never learns how to choose her. Through silent hopes, painful rejections, and countless moments of self-doubt, she learns the hardest lesson of all-love is not about begging to be seen. This story, has many leads with unique stories: Alokh and Nikita- Alokita. Nidhi and Kartik- Nitik Akash and Sadhna- Saksh For more: click to read..... This is an emotional journal who is really close to my heart. I hope the readers on this platform will support me...

PROLOGUE The video appeared online at 3:17 AM. No caption. No music. Just seventeen seconds of grainy footage from the back of a wedding hall. A woman in white, walking away from an altar. Her train dragging through scattered rose petals. The groom frozen mid-smile. A collective gasp from three hundred guests. By sunrise, forty million people had watched it. By noon, she was a mystery. By nightfall, she was a villain. No one knew the truth. No one ever would-until now. This is not the story the internet told you. This is the story that happened in the spaces between notifications. Between likes and shares and outrage. Between the last seen and the first hello. This is what love actually looks like when no one is watching.

Every Valentine's Day, Amari Brooks pretends she doesn't care. The roses clog the sidewalks. The candy aisles feel personal. And love-real love-never seems to have her name on it. She's a soft-spoken, sharp-minded Black woman with expensive dreams, quiet hustle habits, and a heart that loves way too loudly for the world she's in. While she builds her future and minds her business, love keeps finding her... through men who already belong to someone else. Amari doesn't chase taken men-but somehow, they always notice her on Valentine's Day. This is a story about being the girl everyone wants but no one chooses. About loving deeply in a world that rewards detachment. About Valentine's Day trauma, soft life fantasies, and the moment a lover girl finally decides whether she'll keep borrowing affection-or demand her own. For every woman who loves hard, hustles softly, and has side-eyed February 14th her whole life.

Meet the Real Ana A Story of Love, Control, and Choosing Herself Ana learns early that love and safety are not the same thing. At fifteen, she leaves home to protect herself, carrying with her a quiet understanding that care often comes with conditions. As she grows older, Ana searches for stability in relationships that promise security-but slowly discovers how easily protection can turn into control. When an older partner offers her a future free from financial struggle, Ana believes she has finally found safety. Instead, she learns how dependence can erase choice, and how silence can feel like peace until it costs too much. As expectations tighten and her independence narrows, Ana must confront a truth she has avoided for years: staying can be just as dangerous as leaving. Through love, restraint, betrayal, and quiet resolve, Ana begins to see herself clearly for the first time-not as someone to be protected, owned, or saved, but as someone capable of choosing her own life. Meet the Real Ana is a grounded, emotionally honest novel about growing up too soon, learning boundaries too late, and finding the courage to walk away without replacement. It is a story for readers who believe that real strength is built slowly-and that choosing yourself is the bravest act of all.

Isa ka ba sa babaeng pag nagmahal ay all in? yung tipong lahat binibigay mo? mas hinihigitan mo? mali ba yung dapat "daw" mas "mas" yung lalaki pero sa sobrang laki ng puso mo di mo mapigilang mas sumobra? mali ba yon? para ang laging sukli sayo is sakit lang? If you're like that person, is there a love that you deserve? will you be happy in the end?

Part 1 was about heartbreak, losing people, and learning how to survive the pain they left behind. But this isn't Part 1 anymore. This is the part where the healing gets messy. Where anger, fear, memories, pressure, loneliness, and self-discovery collide. Where survival becomes strength. Where broken people learn how to rebuild themselves. Every chapter is still a song. Every song is still a story. But this time, the story is about becoming someone stronger than your past. Some songs will hurt. Some songs will heal. Some songs will remind you that even on the nights you barely make it through... you're still here. Welcome back to the World of Songs. Part 2 begins now.

She Chose Her Name is a short, heartfelt story about a quiet, anxious young woman who falls deeply in love with a boy she once admired from afar. Their connection feels perfect at first-mutual crush, instant spark, shared dreams. But when love slowly turns into control, silent punishments, and emotional imbalance, she begins to lose pieces of herself. Surrounded by a society full of cheating, dishonesty, and people pretending to be someone they're not, she struggles to understand what real love should feel like. This story becomes her journey of courage-learning to walk away, learning to choose herself, and learning that independence is not a flaw, but a strength. It is a reflection of modern relationships, self-respect, and rising again after heartbreak.

I love me, they hate me because they want me

When the stage you've been praying for finally opens its lights... paano mo haharapin ang maraming tao, lalo na kung ang aabutan mo roon ay ang taong paraluman sa bawat musika mo? Klara Ivelisse Bel is on the edge of everything she once dreamed of becoming, a rising singer finally stepping into the spotlight. When she is invited to perform at the Paskuhan celebration at the University of Santo Tomas, she walks in as an artist chasing her future, not knowing she is also walking back into her past. Because in the middle of a crowd full of strangers, she sees Wynn. The girl she once loved. The girl she never truly let go of. The girl she silently wished would one day hear her songs again. And somehow, she does. Just like Klara once believed, because Wynn's name means "God has heard." But wishes don't erase reality. Klara's dream demands distance. Her heart demands that she stay. And when everything finally collides, she makes the choice she always feared but always knew she would take. She chooses her dream over love. But some endings are only illusions. Some lifetimes don't close. They wait for the right moment to return. And now that everything has come full circle again, will she return to Yesterday, to finally understand the lifetime they kept circling back to? Or will she walk toward the future she built alone, even if it means turning away from The Lifetime That Chose Them After Yesterday?

Some dreams arrive quietly. They follow you. They wait for you. And sometimes, they break you before they become real. Zara comes to New York chasing the life she has always dream of - a life shaped by ambition, creativity, and independence. The city makes her feel seen, makes her feel like she belonged. What she didn't expect was colliding with someone she never saw coming - unaware that fate had already tied a string between them. Zayn is guarded, intense, composed on the surface. A man built from responsibility, expectations, and years of being what he needed to be. Behind the sharp edges and controlled silence is someone who once dreamed freely - someone who feeld restless after meeting Zara. Her presence had the power to ruin the walls he had built underneath him, how effortlessly she helped him out of his dark shell and showed what once felt possible. Their connection unfolds slowly in shared glances, slow, intense, and impossible to ignore - the kind that feels safe and dangerous at the same time. But life isn't a fairytale nor kind always. As friendships deepen and love grows, life begins to pull them in opposite directions. Choices are made. Trust is tested. Dreams are questioned. And Zara is forced to face the hardest and unexpected choices. To truly understand love, we must first learn to love ourselves - and become who we're meant to be. This is not just a love story. It's a story about ambition, heartbreak, found family, and the courage it takes to choose ourselves. Some endings are not meant to be final. Some stories are only the beginning.

A collection of letters for the quiet hearts, the tired souls, and the ones who kept showing up even when no one asked how they were doing.

Lady Lyra Wynthorne has spent her life in the shadow of her father's power, protected by his influence and sheltered by her status. As the only daughter of a High Lord, she's always had everything she could ever want-except her freedom. When she learns that her father has arranged a marriage for her, Lyra decides to take her fate into her own hands. Running away from the life she's always known, she ventures out into a world far harsher than she imagined, determined to prove she's more than the spoiled, reckless girl everyone thinks she is. Sir Lucian Dorne, her father's most trusted knight, has watched over Lyra since they were children. He knows her better than anyone-or so he thinks. As her childhood friend and protector, he's seen her wild, impulsive nature, and he believes she has much to learn about the realities of life. Never did Lucian expect Lyra to disappear, nor could he have predicted the sorrow and emptiness that would fill the void she left behind. Months later, when Lucian finally tracks Lyra down, he's shocked to find that the damsel he once knew is no longer in distress. Lyra has changed. Hardened. She has found a new strength and independence in the face of hardship, and she no longer needs saving. As Lucian sees her with new eyes, he begins to wonder: how can he protect someone who doesn't need protecting? And when he discovers the true reason she fled, Lucian is forced to confront his deepest fear. What does a knight do when the damsel he's sworn to protect is ready to fight her own battles? And more importantly, what happens when that damsel is the woman he's been in love with all along? In this story of love, loyalty, and self-discovery, Lyra and Lucian must face the truth of who they are-and who they are to each other.

Brielle Carter left Chicago with a broken heart and a promise to herself-never to fall apart again. 3 years into her new life in New York, her career is finally taking off, and everything she worked for is within reach. She's learned how to be focused, guarded, and in control. Love was never part of the plan. Then she meets her. Calm where Brielle is restless. Steady where Brielle is still healing. What starts as coincidence slowly becomes something harder to ignore-something that feels like peace. Something that feels dangerous. But just as Brielle begins to open her heart, the past she ran from threatens to pull her back. Caught between who she was and who she's becoming, Brielle must decide if she's brave enough to choose herself... and the love she never thought she'd deserve.

When yesterday holds a version of you na hindi mo na kayang balikan... paano mo haharapin ang bukas, lalo na kung kailangan mong pumili between the dream you've waited for your whole life and the love you never really got over? Krystal Luvy Jay Javier spent years rebuilding herself through quiet dreams, quiet sacrifices, and a future she promised to chase no matter what. Akala niya, nalagpasan na niya ang lahat ng piraso ng kahapon, the pain, the wrong choices, and the woman she once loved. And that woman is Gwen. The almost. The unfinished chapter she tried to bury. Now, after years of no contact, their paths collide again, too sudden, too familiar, too much like the yesterday she thought she had escaped. With Gwen back in her life, Tala is forced to confront everything she locked away, her old wounds, her forgotten softness, and the part of herself na tumigas para lang maka-move forward. Pero habang bumabalik ang dati, bumibigat naman ang ngayon. Her dream abroad is waiting. And so is the woman she never stopped loving. As emotions resurface and choices grow heavier, Tala begins to realize that some lifetimes don't end. They wait until you're brave enough to choose the future you truly want. And now... she has to choose. Will she look back to Yesterday, to see what lifetime still holds for them? Or will she finally leave everything behind, in The Lifetime We Left in Yesterday?

This book is a collection of my thoughts and experiences. Everything written here is based on my personal experiences, which had both negative and positive impacts on me. It details how I faced challenges, let get of someone, even though it hurt. The content of this book is a compilation of various literary pieces. May the heart and soul of my words touched you.

Some people leave, and we turn their silence into a verdict against ourselves. This collection is about the quiet damage of self-blame, the trembling inner child still waiting to be chosen, and the slow courage of learning that it was never your fault. You were never the reason. You were just loving the best way you knew how. - Akshra shakya

Seventeen-year-old Valentina has always believed love is supposed to be loud. Loud like pop-punk music blasting out of a garage. Loud like sweaty concerts and late-night drives. Loud like Bryce Hawthorne - magnetic, elusive, and impossible to hold onto. Bryce gives Val just enough to keep her chasing him, disappearing whenever things start to feel real. He's the kind of love that burns bright and leaves scars, the kind that feels like destiny even when it hurts. Lennox has always been there. He's her best friend. Her bandmate. The one who holds her together after Bryce breaks her heart, who blocks Bryce from her view in crowded hallways, who knows her pain before she says a word. He loves her quietly, steadily, even when she keeps choosing someone else. Caught in a cycle of intensity and comfort, Val is forced to choose between the love that feels electric and the love that feels like home. When she finally does, she believes the chaos is over. She's wrong. A single night shatters everything, leaving Val drowning in grief, guilt, and the weight of a love that never got the chance to finish. As music becomes her lifeline, she begins to understand that some loves are meant to be felt deeply - but not all of them are meant to stay. Louder Than Goodbye is an emotionally charged YA romance about first love, toxic attachment, grief, and growing up. A story for anyone who loved too hard, stayed too long, and had to learn the difference between intensity and intimacy. 🎸 Pop-punk vibes. Found family. Love triangles. Healing. 💔 For fans of angsty teen romance and music-driven stories.

A man who feels like fate. A love that sounds like care. A story never questioned. This is not a romance. It's the moment before a woman disappears into one. This is my entry for the „Wuthering Heights" Reimagined Contest. Gentle readers welcome - honest critique even more. If something here feels familiar, that's not an accident ;)