Emotionalgrowth Stories

Sizzling intimacy and a high dose of smut. Enough to make you wonder where this is heading? Take a breath. This story goes far beyond that. Yes, there is a hell lot of cute romance. Butterflies, a second chance at love, and soft moments that make your heart feel full. Beyond the romance, it dives into emotional intelligence, a beautiful chosen sibling bond, friendships and family, quiet faith, healthy relationships, and the realities of career and life. This story feels like watching your comfort movie again and again. Familiar. Warm. Safe. It explores the meaning of relationships without glorifying toxicity. Romance that makes sense. Emotions that feel real. Logic that does not kill love. Scenes you suddenly remember and smile. Expect everything from this book. It will not disappoint. Presenting to you, 𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆 🦋 by 𝐆𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐲 🌼✍️

Some things don't start with a spark. They start with a collision - the wrong person in the wrong place at exactly the wrong time, eye contact that lasts half a second too long and leaves something behind that doesn't go away. That's how it starts with Victor and Austin. Victor has spent years building real, practiced, bone-deep control - over his choices, his words, the careful distance he keeps between himself and everyone around him. His walls aren't just high. They're architectural. And no one has ever made it far enough to find out what lives on the other side. Austin seems to have been built specifically to change that. Loud where Victor is silent, reckless where Victor is careful, warm in a way that feels almost aggressive. He moves through life like consequences happen to other people - and he has a talent for making Victor's distance feel less like protection and more like stubbornness. What starts as forced proximity turns into stolen glances, charged arguments, and touches that burn longer than they should. They both know what it's becoming. They both know the risks - the complications, the loyalties stretched thin, the secrets sitting just below the surface of everything growing between them. They stay anyway. Because some things don't respond to logic, and this was never the kind of feeling that cared about being convenient. It dug in quietly, settled somewhere neither of them could reach, and made itself at home before either of them thought to lock the door Control meets temptation. And neither of them is backing down - not because they're fearless, but because walking away would mean pretending this was ever something they had a real choice in. It wasn't. It never was. And deep down, even through all the tension and the complications and the things neither of them has been brave enough to say out loud yet, neither of them would change a single thing.

High school is supposed to be simple-classes, exams, and surviving teenage chaos. But for them... it becomes something much more. In a modern Indian school, eight teenagers navigate friendships, rivalries, dreams, and feelings they weren't ready for. A basketball star who clashes with the school topper. An academic rivalry hiding silent emotions. A dancer and a musician whose worlds move to the same rhythm. An artist who sees beauty in a rebellious soul. Their lives cross in classrooms, basketball courts, corridors, group studies, and late-night thoughts. Friendships grow stronger, misunderstandings appear, secrets unfold, and hearts slowly begin to change. Some relationships start with rivalry. Some grow from friendship. Some appear when you least expect them. Because sometimes love doesn't arrive perfectly... it grows through chaos, laughter, mistakes, and memories. This is a story about teenage years-about friendship, dreams, overthinking, heartbreak, healing, and discovering countless shades of love.

When Riley Matthews and Maya Hart's everyday school life collides with the world-famous band One Direction.

Henerika Verma prefers silence. She avoids noise, attention, and unnecessary chaos. Nishant Mehra is the complete opposite-lively, confident, and someone who loves annoying her. Two completely different personalities. One college.

Ethan Choi was trained to hold the line. In the Army. In the emergency department. In crisis. But nothing prepared him for fatherhood. At home, there are no clear protocols. No chain of command. No guarantees. Nathan wants to make his father proud - even when the pressure feels too heavy. Emilia feels everything too deeply - even when she doesn't know how to explain it. April believes love should be gentle. Ethan believes love should prepare you for the world. Each chapter follows a different stage of life - different ages, different challenges, different lines that threaten to break. Because holding the line at work is easy. Holding it at home? That's where the real battle begins.

The bride ran away. So her cousin married the groom. And neither of them expected what would grow in the silence that followed. When her cousin runs away hours before an arranged wedding, Hala is asked to take her place - marrying a disciplined CEO she barely knows. Their marriage begins in silence, duty, and unfamiliar nearness. Within a traditional household and shared private spaces, two strangers learn to coexist... then slowly understand... and perhaps, without realising when it began, care. A gentle arranged-marriage story about dignity, family, and love that grows quietly between breaths rather than declarations. Some marriages begin with vows. Theirs begins with quiet...

Ayisha isn't looking for love. She's just trying to get through her days, take care of the people she loves, and keep everything from falling apart. Simon comes into her life quietly, without promises or big gestures. What forms between them is slow and unspoken, shaped by shared moments, responsibility, and things left unsaid. It's a story about timing, care, and choosing someone even when life makes it complicated.

Where two people learn to see the similarities in their differences and learn to push their family rivalry aside to end a shared family curse. The Jones and Bulkler families were known for their centuries long rivalry. Their shared hatred for one another and eagerness to one up each other on their magical powers passed on as each new generation came to be. However, this hatred is pushed aside as Castrel Jones and James Bulkler must work together to solve the problem that is causing their families magic to drain. Castrel and James learn to see their similarities in their differences and learn to see who each other are. Not just by their last names and bloodline, but who they are as a person. Castrel Jones, second oldest of the famous head of the Jones family, is beginning his final year of Fablewood. A well known and well established school where magic and wonders of a magical and mysterious world named Eldoria is learned. As always he expected it to be a quiet school year, passing through his studies and focusing on his future to serve the Jones family with no distractions. Or so he thought. James Bulkler, oldest of the head of the Jones family's rival, the Bulkler family, has decided to be quite bold this school year. Despite being quiet and keeping his distance from Castrel for the last years James has been eyeing and insisting on getting on good terms with Castrel. Claiming that they didn't have to hate each other and that they were possibly the only people in their families to fix things. Chapter 3-10 rewrite in progress Current word count: 161,712

Amelia never planned to fall into Ethan Raines' world-a man shaped by silence, pride, and truths he never learned how to speak. What begins as comfort slowly becomes connection... and then something far more dangerous: love. But when the past refuses to stay buried and faith is stretched thin, Amelia and Ethan are forced to face a painful question: Can love survive honesty, or does the truth always cost something? Hearts and Half-Truths is a quiet, slow-burn romance about healing, faith, and the courage it takes to love without hiding.

Lyra Ashford knows one thing about love: If it doesn't hurt, it isn't real. As a Creative Director in Manhattan, she can command multi-million-dollar brands with a single presentation- but she has never been able to command her own heart. Callum Reed is different. A therapist with too much patience. A man who doesn't get jealous. A man who never answers anger with anger. A man who stays. And that is exactly why Lyra wants to run. Because what if gentle love isn't a gift- but a test she was never taught how to pass? When a past filled with fire comes roaring back into her life, Lyra is forced to choose: Return to the kind of love that makes her feel gloriously, destructively alive- or hold on to the man who might be too gentle for a brutal world. But there is one thing she doesn't realize. Gentle love does not mean it cannot leave. And when Callum finally stops chasing her- Lyra may already be too late to learn how to love without destroying everything in her path.

One online connection was all it took to change everything. When friendships blur, trust breaks, and emotions get tangled, Krithika finds herself stuck in a mess she never asked for. Between loyalty and betrayal, feelings and boundaries, she learns that growing up isn't about choosing people-it's about choosing peace. A raw teen story about online friendships, heartbreak, and finding strength in letting go

Burnout is expensive. So is falling for someone you're not sure you're ready for. She's a 29-year-old corporate attorney who has mastered the art of surviving - billing hours, deflecting feelings, and never getting too invested. He's a psychiatrist who believes in intention over potential and isn't afraid to say what he means. They meet on Reddit. In r/Burnout. Of all places. What starts as dry humor and late-night messages slowly turns into something neither of them planned - or fully trusts. Because it's one thing to want love. It's another to believe it will stay. A slow-burn AMBW romance about stability, vulnerability, and choosing someone before fear chooses for you.

Wiphala is a remote estate that does not exist on social media, is never advertised, and can only be reached through word of mouth. Those who manage to secure a stay all say the same thing: "No one comes back the same." There, certain trees -known as The Elders- respond to absolute honesty. They grow. They expand. They reshape the landscape. Emma arrives searching for something she cannot name. But Emma is not Emma. She is Carol -a journalist who, after the highly publicized death of her son, staged her own disappearance. In Wiphala, she will discover that some trees do more than grow from truth... Some embody what we believed was lost forever. Tender, symbolic, and deeply human, Diary of a Tree with a Wide Canopy and Shallow Roots explores grief, identity, inherited silence, and the fragile hope that survives even in shallow ground. Enter gently. Some secrets are waiting to be trusted with you.

Krutika doesn't believe in love. In fact, she doesn't even understand what it truly means. Living with constant insecurities, she often escapes into her imagination, creating a safer world in her thoughts than the one around her. Everything feels predictable-until she notices Arjun. Handsome, carefree, and always surrounded by friends, Arjuin doesn't seem serious about studies, yet when he chooses to focus, he excels effortlessly. He is confident in ways Krutika has never been. When two completely different personalities cross paths, what happens next? Do her insecurities grow stronger in his presence? Or does he slowly become the warmth that helps her heal? *Wrapped in Your Warmth* is not just a college love story- it is a journey of self-discovery, vulnerability, and learning to accept love without losing yourself. 🤍

===RE-WRITE IN PROGRESS=== After some very constructive feedback, I will be re-writing the first 4 chapters before continuing to Chapter 5. ========================== This is a fan work based on characters and settings owned by Riot Games. I do not own the rights to the original characters or world. This story is a non-commercial work created for entertainment purposes only. Like most stories-not all, but most-this one begins with a dream. Before the crown. Before the rumors. Before the city whispered his name like a promise or a threat. There was only a boy in a forgotten library, reading about kings who failed and heroes who were too late. Years later, Piltover calls him a prodigy. Zaun calls him salvation. The world calls him something he never meant to become. But power is not taken in a single moment. It grows quietly-in systems, in secrets, in the spaces between chaos and control. As old empires crack and new inventions threaten to reshape the future, a silent architect begins to move the board without ever claiming the throne. He believes chaos cannot be ruled-only understood. He believes love is not possession-but acceptance. And at the center of it all stands a girl who refuses to be saved, who demands emotion instead of strategy, fire instead of restraint. He will build a city to protect her. She will burn him to see him feel. This is not a story about becoming king. It is a story about what happens when the world decides you already are one. Act I - The Shadow of a Boy - Chapter 1: Story of a King - 3rd draft - Chapter 2: High Score - 2st draft - Chapter 3: Silent Question - 1st draft (Re-Write WIP) - Chapter 4: Left Behind - 1st draft (Re-Write WIP) - Chapter 5: Crumbling Mountain ---ON HOLD--- Author's Note: This story is a work in progress and is being published as it's written. Earlier chapters may be lightly revised over time for clarity, flow, and refinement. Core plot points and story direction will remain the same.

Charlotte Harrington was built for the spotlight. Eddie Munson lives outside it. In Hawkins, those worlds don't touch. Until she decides they do.

A Dumangan woman is tasked by the Moon Dragon to combat the destructive Wendigos. The effort requires securing allies, including the Thunderbird Tahu, navigating cultural differences, and sowing orchards of life. This challenge is complicated by the emergence of ancient creatures of myth.