Choosingyourself Stories

Chrissy can handle rejection. What she can't handle is maybe. Years after quietly getting over the man she once wanted, Jay walks back into her life-and this time, the attraction they spent years pretending wasn't there is impossible to ignore. There are late-night conversations, old feelings, stolen kisses, blurred boundaries, and enough tenderness to make hope feel reasonable. But being wanted is not always the same as being chosen. And when Chrissy finally asks the question she's been avoiding, she discovers that sometimes the most painful answer isn't no. It's I don't know. The Space Between Us is a short novel inspired by real-life experiences about attraction, almost-love, heartbreak, self-forgiveness, and learning that some people don't have to become villains for us to realise they cannot give us what we need. Some stories are about finding love. This one is about what happens in the space between wanting someone- and choosing yourself.

Sometimes, the hardest choices aren't between right and wrong, but between what we want and what we need. For Tessa, Mia, and Zion, growing up means learning that choosing a path isn't always as simple as following your heart. Sometimes, dreams have to be sacrificed, expectations have to be challenged, and responsibilities have to be faced. But what if, for once, they choose themselves? Maybe this time, things can be different.

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.

Jayla thought Marcus was her forever. But after heartbreak, betrayal, abuse, and loss, she realizes she can't keep losing herself to love him. With her twins by her side and her friends supporting her, Jayla chooses to leave, heal, and rebuild her life. Sometimes, choosing yourself is the greatest kind of love.

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.

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.

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.

A story about choosing yourself over anything else. What do you do when everything becomes just okay? Not thrilling, not intense and not lighting each other up. ************* Author's note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

I CHOOSE YOU is a story of love, loss and self-discovery. Tara, a girl who once believed in forever, faces betrayal, heartbreak, and the pain of losing herself. But through friendship, healing, and time, she learns that true love begins with choosing herself. A journey of letting go, finding strength, and embracing new beginnings, this book is for anyone who has ever lost themselves in love and found their way back.

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.

When No One Comes: A Guide to Healing Yourself What do you do when the people you counted on are no longer there? When the silence gets louder, and you're left to face everything on your own? When No One Comes is a deeply honest and comforting guide for those learning how to heal without depending on anyone else. Written in a raw yet gentle voice, this book walks you through the quiet, often painful journey of self-healing-from confronting your inner struggles to rebuilding your strength one small step at a time. Through reflective chapters and heartfelt truths, it reminds you that healing doesn't always look strong or perfect. Sometimes, it looks like getting out of bed, choosing yourself, and learning to sit with your own pain without running away. This book is for anyone who has ever felt alone, overwhelmed, or forgotten-yet still found a way to keep going. Because in the end, you'll discover something powerful: The person who saves you... is you.

I gave flowers to see who would water them. This is not a collection. It is a realisation. Not because I was naïve. Not because I didn't understand how the world works. But because I wanted to believe that care could be mutual. These poems are for the ones who loved gently but never blindly. For those who offered warmth without being asked twice. For those who expected softness-and slowly learned who was capable of giving it. Between fragrance and silence, between hope and awareness, these pages hold the quiet shift from giving endlessly to choosing intentionally. There are flowers here. There is dignity. There is the ache of almost. And the strength of walking away without turning cold. Because sometimes the real heartbreak is not that love failed- but that you finally saw it clearly. And still chose to remain soft.

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 ;)

Elena has always kept her life carefully contained-quiet routines, controlled emotions, and a safe distance from anything that feels too intense. But everything shifts the moment she opens a message she wasn't supposed to see. "You're still awake." At first, it feels harmless. Just words on a screen. But the messages continue-growing deeper, more personal, as if someone has been watching her life from the inside. What begins as curiosity turns into something far more dangerous: a connection she can't explain and a pull she can't resist. As Elena is drawn further into a hidden world of secrets, late-night confessions, and unanswered questions, she begins to realize one terrifying truth- This isn't just a conversation. It was started for a reason. And someone is waiting for her to find out why. Some messages don't just change your day... they change your life.

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

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.

She spent sixteen years trying to survive. Then she died. At exactly 3:13 a.m., Aarya runs away from the life destroying her. But after a tragic accident leaves her trapped between worlds, she discovers a hidden city of ghosts, forgotten souls, supernatural laws, and monsters created from human pain. Now she must decide: become the monster her suffering created... or finally become the person she never got the chance to be.

I love me, they hate me because they want me

BUY NOW ON AMAZON https://a.co/d/2z4P2Lz They thought love was something you prove. He discovered it was something you survive. When Noah comes home early and walks into a fight between the two women who claim to know him best-his fiancée and his closest friend-something inside him fractures. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Quietly. Irrevocably. What follows isn't a love triangle fueled by passion, but a slow, unsettling unraveling of how devotion turns into entitlement, how care becomes control, and how silence is mistaken for consent. As the women rewrite him in competing versions of who he's supposed to be, Noah begins a private reckoning-one that leads him not toward another romance, but toward himself. The Door I Closed First is a psychologically intimate romantic novel about emotional manipulation disguised as love, the courage it takes to step out of roles others assign you, and the quiet power of choosing freedom over being chosen. This is not a story about who wins his heart. It's about what happens when he stops offering it as proof.

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.