Emotionalhealing Stories

College is supposed to be about plans-grades, internships, and timelines that make sense. Sabrina Baptiste, a sharp pre-law transfer who swore off chaos, isn't looking for distraction. Then Leo Santiago-Puerto Rican, dancer-athlete, moody with a soft grin and tattoos like a map-walks into her Florida heat and refuses to leave quietly. Their chemistry is instant. Their problems are, too. Leo's not-quite-finished business with his ex, Minji, sets off every alarm Sabrina owns. Boundaries get drawn. Lines get crossed. A tropical storm turns into a first time neither of them can pretend away. And when a bigger hurricane knocks out their power, the truth lights them up brighter than any streetlamp: love isn't magic-it's work. Set in Orlando's humid nights-Latin clubs, lechoneras off Semoran, Lake Eola sunsets-As Long as We Are follows two people learning to choose each other on purpose: past the ex, past the rumors, past the fear of empty rooms. It's Caribbean to Caribbean, culture to culture, storm to storm. Messy, honest, and open-door. © _RelleLebby_// R. L.

Seo Jinhyeok has spent years, after awakening as an Esper, learning how not to want. Han Taewon has spent even longer, even before becoming a Guide, learning how to say no. When they are paired as a team, their connection is meant to be temporary, efficient, and strictly professional. Touch-guiding only. No escalation. No attachment. But quiet has a way of becoming intimate. As dungeon missions draw them closer, Jinhyeok begins to realize that Taewon's boundaries aren't walls --- they are invitations to choose carefully. And Taewon, who has survived by keeping everyone at a distance, finds himself trusting someone who never asks him to give more than he can. In a world where power is taken, not shared, their slow-burn bond becomes something radical: a love built on permission, patience, and the courage to want without harm.

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.

Dr. Aarohi Sen lives a composed, carefully curated life - a respected pediatrician in Switzerland, emotionally reserved, fiercely independent, and quietly shaped by a childhood that taught her to grow up too early. Behind her professional calm lies an unspoken loneliness, softened only by fleeting moments of connection - with children who trust her, with memories she avoids naming, and with parts of herself she is slowly learning to understand. As Aarohi navigates therapy, emotional healing, and the quiet rhythm of her days, an unexpected presence enters her life - someone from a different world, carrying his own silences, his own disappointments, and his own complicated relationship with hope. The Space Between Us is a slow-burn contemporary novel about emotional distance, mental health, childhood wounds, cross-cultural encounters, and the fragile courage it takes to trust connection again. It explores imperfect hearts, gentle healing, and the unseen spaces that exist between people - where vulnerability, understanding, and quiet love often begin. For readers who appreciate soft romance, emotional realism, and stories that feel deeply human.

🔥 An addictive slow-burn office romance filled with tension, emotional intimacy, forbidden desire, and the kind of love that ruins you before it saves you. 🔥

Harry never planned on doing this alone-but pregnancy has a way of rewriting everything. Louis was supposed to be his caregiver. Nothing more. Nothing less. Somewhere between routines, quiet mornings, and learning how to be held, care becomes something deeper. More Than Care is a soft, slow-burn mpreg story about chosen family, bodily change, and love that arrives gently-without asking to be earned.

𝗕𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝗮𝘃𝘆𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘆 is a baker by passion and a walking bundle of chaos. As the eldest daughter, she's spent her life holding things together usually with flour-dusted hands and sarcasm-laced words. She's a selective yapper: quiet when it doesn't matter, unstoppable when it does. Her world smells like vanilla, burnt sugar and dreams she's too scared to say out loud. 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗸 𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗿 is a famous singer and music composer adored by millions. Calm, controlled and emotionally guarded, he lives in melodies and silence. Fame follows him everywhere but he keeps his personal space fiercely protected, letting no one cross the invisible line he's drawn around his heart. When a chaotic baker crashes into a man who hates disruption, the result isn't harmony.....it's friction. Yet somewhere between her messy laughter and his carefully composed silences, something begins to change. Because some symphonies aren't meant to be perfect. They're meant to be 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙩. A story of opposites colliding, boundaries breaking and love finding its rhythm in the most unexpected notes.

Part 1 of a two-part story, set between the events of Stranger Things Season 3 and Season 4. After the battle of Starcourt, Max Mayfield carries more than anyone can see. Her friends are there - but sometimes even friends aren't enough. Told in the quiet spaces between canon events, this story follows Max as she struggles with trauma, fear, guilt, and the weight of everything she's lost -and everything she's afraid to have again - until someone unexpected enters her life. Someone who listens. Someone who stays. Someone who cares in ways Max didn't think were possible. This is the story of Max beginning to heal and find herself again. A story about trust, understanding, sisterly love, and chosen family - about discovering that home isn't just a place, and that family isn't always the one you're born into. And about learning, slowly and painfully, that everyone deserves to be fought for - including yourself.

Léna rebuilt herself the best she could after a toxic relationship that left her guarded and convinced she would never be anyone's first choice. A literature professor at Montclar University, she masters words effortlessly, yet struggles to trust her own feelings. When she reconnects with Noah, her former best friend, she only wants to mend a broken friendship. Noah the excessive one. The unpredictable one. The one who makes mistakes without always realizing their consequences. The one she has never seen as anything more than a friend. But some bonds survive silence. Caught between unexpected attraction and the fear of being hurt again, Léna faces a choice she has always avoided: to let herself fall... or to protect her heart.

She doesn't remember the blood she was born into-but it remembers her. He fell for her light, unaware she was forged in darkness. Some women are protected by the mafia. Others are the mafia. By day, Kriya is everything the world finds easy to love. Sunshine in human form. Soft laughter. Gentle kindness. A medical student with hope in her eyes and warmth in her smile. The kind of girl people trust without thinking twice. By night, she disappears. Into locked rooms and quieter shadows. Into music no one hears her record. Into movement that feels less like dance and more like survival. The world sees her light. No one sees the discipline beneath it. No one sees the violence she keeps buried. Then she meets Abeer Oberoi- a man built of restraint and fire, control and conviction. Calm where she is chaos. Steady where she is spark. What begins as banter turns dangerous. What feels like safety becomes attachment. What should have stayed light starts sinking deep. But the past doesn't stay buried forever. Somewhere in the city, blood is being spilled in her name. Men are falling without ever seeing her face. And the underworld has begun to whisper about a shadow they call Kali. A woman no one has ever seen. A force no one survives. Kriya doesn't remember the life she was born into. The family that lost her. The twin whose heartbeat unknowingly echoes hers. But the blood remembers. And when the truth starts clawing its way back- when love collides with legacy, when light stands at the edge of darkness- Kriya will have to decide: remain the girl the world knows... or finally become the woman the underworld has always feared. Gilhariyaan - A mafia romance of hidden identities, lethal loyalty, and a love that was never meant to be gentle.

To her people, she was blessed by Eywa. To the Jedi, she was chosen by the Force. To the Empire, she is a ghost. Ey'lanate Tskaha Mo'at'ite - youngest daughter of Mo'at and Eytukan, sister to Neytiri - was taken from Pandora by Master Yoda and trained as a Jedi. Years later, Order 66 turns her into a fugitive. After saving Caleb Dume, Ey'lanate's path collides with Clone Force 99. Traveling with them across war-torn systems, she becomes protector, healer, and eventually family. As Omega grows attached and Hunter's walls begin to crack, Ey'lanate must confront the truth of who she is - not Jedi, not only Na'vi, but something new entirely. A Clone Wars / Bad Batch era epic blending Star Wars and Avatar, filled with hurt/comfort, found family, and slow-burn romance.

"She was left without a name. They came with hearts full of longing. And in a hospital room where no lullabies echoed, love began to breathe again." Mauli and Kunal had accepted a life without children-smiling through their heartbreak, supporting each other through years of failed treatments and unanswered prayers. Now, as newly graduated pediatricians, they join a prestigious hospital to begin their clinical training, hoping to turn their grief into purpose. But their first assignment is not a textbook or a mannequin. It's a two-week-old newborn girl known only as Baby 45-a child abandoned at the gate, treated as a subject to practice on, silent and still... almost forgotten. While others see her as easy to work with, Mauli sees her as a baby in pain. Kunal sees the fear in her blank eyes. And in the quiet room, something awakens in them both-an unspoken bond, a rising defiance. They name her Pari. In a place where compassion has faded into clinical coldness, can love rewrite her fate? A deeply moving story of heartbreak, healing, and the quiet revolution that begins with a heartbeat.

When a self-made beauty entrepreneur Aria Mitchell discovers her mayoral candidate husband and best friend have been stealing from her company while conducting an affair, she loses everything-her business, her marriage, and her reputation. But from the ashes of betrayal rises an unexpected love with the Korean-American journalist who exposed the scandal, and together they must navigate cultural differences, community expectations, and the long road to rebuilding trust and finding authentic success. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.

Tori Anderson's life shattered the night she found her fiancé in bed with her best friend. Broken and betrayed, the 26-year-old interior designer makes a radical choice: accept a full scholarship to a prestigious design program in Kyoto, Japan-and leave everything behind. But healing isn't as simple as running away. As the only Black woman in her cohort, Tori navigates hypervisibility, culture shock, and the weight of past trauma while learning the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi-finding beauty in imperfection. With the help of unexpected friends and the ancient art of kintsugi (golden repair), she begins to rebuild herself piece by fragile piece. Then she meets Ren-brilliant, beautiful, and utterly unavailable. A commitment-phobic architectural designer with his own hidden wounds, Ren has perfected the art of intimacy without connection. But when their late-night workshops and vulnerable conversations crack both their carefully constructed walls, neither can ignore what's growing between them. Can two broken people learn to trust again? Can gold fill the cracks between them? A story about survival, self-discovery, and the courage it takes to love after loss-Kintsugi is an achingly beautiful journey of a woman learning that healing isn't about becoming unbroken. It's about honoring the scars that made you whole. ©️ Relle H

A FICTIONAL STORY

Eunji has always kept to the shadows, letting her silence speak for her. After losing her mother, she built walls around her heart, too afraid to let anyone in. Now, a quiet observer of her own life, Eunji struggles to understand who she is in a world that feels like it's moving on without her. When an unexpected connection forces her to face the emotions she's long buried, Eunji must decide whether to stay hidden in her safe, silent world or take a leap into the unknown-into a life where she can truly feel again. If Only You Knew is a slow-burning story about healing, self-discovery, and the love that waits just beneath the surface, ready to bloom when she's ready to open up.

Jungkook has always pushed himself harder than anyone else-harder than his body, harder than his heart. When the pressure finally breaks him on stage, the aftermath is quieter... and heavier. After the world tour ends, Jungkook slips into a place he's never been before-a small, fragile space where words feel too big and the world too loud. Taehyung and the members don't panic. They don't shame him. They hold him. In private, BTS becomes something more than a group: Namjoon learns when to lead and when to kneel. Jin stops being gentle when the company crosses a line. Yoongi guards without speaking. Jimin loves with careful hands. Hobi keeps the light on. Taehyung becomes home. And Jungkook learns that being small doesn't mean being weak.

Nicolas didn't want friends. Didn't want attention. Definitely didn't want her. But then Lina sat next to him. Every. Single. Day. She talked through the awkward silences, laughed at her own jokes, and asked questions he never answered. She was chaos in sneakers and bubblegum lip gloss - and he wanted nothing to do with her. ...Until he did. Because somehow, her noise started drowning out the thoughts he didn't know how to escape. And her voice became the only thing that made the silence bearable. This isn't a love story. Not at first. This is a story about a boy who lost his spark... And the girl who wouldn't let him disappear quietly. ✅ Nicolas ✅ Lina ✅ "You Talk Too Much" ✅ High school setting ✅ Healing + chaos + slow-burn (Btw I forgot to add that there will be no smut of any kind in this story. Maybe an innocent kiss or something but nothing else)

Love doesn't end when the choosing is done. Sometimes, that's when it begins. After finally finding their way to each other, Rowan Hale and Lucas Whitaker aren't learning how to fall in love - they're learning how to stay. In shared mornings and borrowed space, in silence that no longer needs filling, they discover that intimacy isn't built on grand moments, but on repetition, trust, and choosing each other again and again. Still Learning the Shape of Us is a soft, domestic boys' love story about what comes after the almosts - about love that doesn't rush, doesn't demand, and doesn't disappear when things get quiet. Some stories are about discovery. This one is about keeping what you've found. TRIGGER WARNINGS / CONTENT NOTES * Emotional vulnerability * Anxiety surrounding intimacy * Fear of abandonment * Mild dysphoria (non-graphic, internal) * Relationship growing pains *(No explicit sexual content. This story remains PG-13, with gently maturing emotional intimacy.)* AUTHOR'S NOTE (WITH COMMENT RULE) Thank you for returning to Rowan and Lucas. This sequel is about staying - about the quiet work of love once the fear has softened, and the choice has already been made. It's intentionally gentle, intentionally domestic, and intentionally slow. This is not a story about escalation. It's a story about continuity. Comment Rule (Please Read) I welcome thoughtful, respectful comments - especially ones that reflect on emotion, language, or quiet moments. Please do not: * Rush the characters * Ask for explicit content * Demand faster progression This story breathes in silence. Let it. Thank you for reading with patience. - theo.

Melanie Cruz never asked for attention. Her world was paint and silence-dark strokes born from pain, betrayal, and secrets she could never name. Transferred into an elite university, she wanted nothing more than to stay invisible. But Jireh Santiago was impossible to ignore. The golden boy, campus idol, leader of the boyband ECLIPSE. Adored by everyone, chased by girls, always smiling. Until Melanie's blunt words cut through his perfect world... and he couldn't forget her. She paints her sorrows. He sings his heart. Two souls from different worlds, drawn together by truths neither of them dares to say out loud. In a campus full of noise, will her silence finally find its voice in him? Or will love be just another color that fades too soon?