Emotionalslowburn Stories

Set several years after the series finale of Introducing Me, Neal and Kent officially pass the torch to their daughter/Niece Giselle Davis as she steps into her own spotlight. Determined to chase a dream that's bigger than her comfort zone, Giselle transfers to the elite Tharpe-Armour Boarding School in the high-class city of Potomac, Maryland-a world of privilege, pressure, and impossible expectations. At Tharpe-Armour, excellence isn't encouraged-it's demanded. As one of the few scholarship students and an emerging Olympic-level gymnast, Giselle must prove she belongs while balancing brutal training schedules, academic rigor, and the unspoken social hierarchy that comes with wealth and legacy. Surrounded by a tight-knit but imperfect group of friends, Giselle navigates the ups and downs of first love, fractured friendships, jealousy, ambition, and self-identity. Every victory comes with sacrifice, every misstep with consequences-on the mat and off it. As the pressure mounts and the stakes rise, Giselle's journey becomes more than chasing gold medals. It's about learning who she is without her parents' shadow, what she's willing to risk for greatness, and how to hold onto the people she loves when everything is pushing her to choose herself first. This is a story about legacy, resilience, and becoming-where growing up means learning when to hold on, when to let go, and when to take the leap anyway.

Percy Jackson is perfectly content. He has his 8th grade English class, a chaotic group of students who test his patience daily, a staff room full of loud coworkers who won't stop trying to set him up, and a life that is quiet in all the ways he prefers. He is not looking for anything more. Then Elizabeth Chase gets into a fight. And Percy has to call her mother. Annabeth Chase is everything Percy isn't - composed, precise, guarded. A successful architect. A single mother. A woman who doesn't have time for messy emotions or soft-hearted teachers who ask too many questions. Percy thinks he's just helping a student. Annabeth thinks she's just attending a parent-teacher meeting. Elizabeth knows better. Because sometimes the strongest foundations aren't built from blueprints. They're built slowly - after school hours, in crowded teacher lounges, in quiet conversations that mean more than they should. And sometimes, the people who swear they aren't looking for love are the ones who need it most. DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the PJO or HOO characters. They all belong to Rick Riordan. This is a Percabeth Alternate Universe, meaning they ARE NOT DEMIGODS. Also I do not own this cover picture, all rights go to the owner.

Years have passed, and the echoes of the past still linger in the corners of their hearts. Heeseung, Sunghoon, and those closest to them have rebuilt their lives in different ways-some chasing success, some chasing peace, and some chasing forgiveness. But the shadows of old mistakes, unspoken regrets, and fragile love refuse to stay buried. Now, they must face the consequences of choices they made long ago, navigate the delicate threads between love and guilt, and discover if what was once broken can ever be whole again. A story of second chances, painful truths, and the quiet, enduring ache of hearts that refuse to forget. It's highly recommended to read Book 1: "Caged" first to fully understand the depth of their relationships and the weight of the past.

Delilah Henderson has a reputation. Sweet. Responsible. Safe. Hawkins loves a girl it can predict. Too bad they're wrong. She listens to metal with the volume up, drives like she has something to outrun, and has a temper she keeps tucked neatly behind straight A's and polite smiles. Eddie Munson knows what it's like to be judged on sight. Loud. Reckless. Trouble. He wears that reputation like armor. Until Dustin's sister starts looking past it. What begins as late-night arguments about music and quiet moments no one else sees turns into something neither of them can afford - especially not with the entire town watching. And the more they try to keep it quiet... the louder it gets. Delilah Henderson isn't sweet. She's just selective. And Eddie's about to find out exactly what that means.

She was born into shadows she never chose. He was trained to eliminate everything those shadows stood for. 𝙕𝙤𝙮𝙖 grew up inside a house where silence meant survival, where love came with conditions, and truth was never safe to speak aloud. 𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙫 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙝 𝙍𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙚 , an Indian Army officer, believes in rules, restraint, and duty before emotion. Until duty assigns him a case where the "enemy" has a name - and a heartbeat. This is not a love story. It is a collision. A girl watched through suspicion. A man trained not to soften. Trust built without touch. Protection without possession. Truth arrives slowly - and when it does, it doesn't heal. It destabilizes. Because some connections are not meant to be chosen early. Because some loves must wait until justice stands first. No shortcuts. No rescue fantasies. Only restraint, accountability, and a bond that grows quietly - where he never stops being a green forest, and she is never saved... only choosing. "𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘻 𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘢𝘮𝘯𝘦-𝘴𝘢𝘢𝘮𝘯𝘦 𝘬𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘬𝘢𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘺𝘢, 𝘈𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘭 𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘱 𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘺𝘢. 𝘞𝘰𝘩 𝘧𝘢𝘶𝘫 𝘬𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘢, 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘭𝘻𝘢𝘢𝘮 𝘬𝘢, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘩𝘪 𝘬𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘩𝘪 𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘬𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘨𝘢𝘺𝘢."

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.

Kriti has always known how to survive. She learned it in quiet rooms where no one had time to notice tears. She learned it in classrooms where she felt smaller than everyone else. She learned it in silence. Then she found something she never thought she would have. A home. A family. And a person who felt like safety. Dhruv was never loud in her life. He was simply there. Steady. Certain. Unshakable. Years later, she still has everything she once prayed for. A successful career. A house filled with familiar voices. But some silences grow heavier with time. Some names linger in the spaces between heartbeats. And sometimes love is not loud or dramatic. Sometimes it is quiet. Patient. Waiting. Waiting to be chosen. Waiting to be understood. Waiting to be returned. In a life that once felt borrowed, Kriti must face a question she never thought she would ask: How long can you hold on to something... before you realize you were the only one holding? -Rosie ❤️‍🔥

Rhea never planned on falling for anyone. Especially not him. Reign is her best friend's older brother. Older. Quieter. Unpredictable. The kind of person you notice without meaning to and avoid once you do. The kind you're not supposed to feel anything for. It doesn't start with a kiss. It barely starts at all. Just glances that linger too long. Silences that feel heavy. Moments that cross lines without ever touching them. Between summer nights, unspoken rules, and an attraction no one is meant to see, Rhea tries to stay in control. But Reign never promised to be harmless. And some stories begin exactly where you should look away.

"A silent victim, a cold-hearted king, and the bridge of warmth that connects them." Park Jimin is a ghost haunting the corridors of a mansion that was meant to be a home. Trapped under the iron thumb of his aunt's cruelty, his voice is a forgotten memory, buried under years of silent tears and systemic abuse. He is a victim of a world that looks at his beauty but ignores his bruises. Then come the Min's-a couple whose hearts are as warm as a Seoul spring. They see the "angel" behind Jimin's silence, offering him the first taste of genuine kindness he has felt in a decade. But their son is a different story. Min Yoongi is a man carved from ice. As a powerful CEO living in a tower of glass, he has no patience for "broken" things or the sentimentality of his parents. To him, the world is black and white, and silence is a weakness he doesn't tolerate. When a chance encounter brings Yoongi's parents to Jimin's doorstep, a single, silent note penned on crumpled paper becomes the fragile thread weaving two disparate souls together. Can a boy who has lost his voice melt the heart of a man who has chosen silence? Or will their worlds remain separated by more than just distance? #Yoonmin #ColdCeo #Hurtcomfort #MuteJimin #BoundByABrokenNote #AgeGap

When Georgia Hart drives back through the tree-lined roads of her childhood hometown, the golden leaves whisper a truth she's not ready to face. Everything looks the same, and yet nothing is. Once a bright-eyed kindergarten teacher, Georgia returns home searching for something steady after a season of loss and restlessness. What she doesn't expect to find is Richard Ellis, the quiet boy she grew up with. He's older now, broader in the shoulders, and still carrying that easy, disarming charm she never quite forgot. Years ago, their friendship had always skirted the edges of something more with glances that lingered too long, conversations that felt like secrets. But life moved forward, pulling them in different directions. Now, with her father's recent death the family's orchard needs tending, her mother urging her to stay and help. Now Georgia finds herself working alongside Richard once more. Between the hum of bees and the scent of ripe apples, old feelings stir like leaves in the wind. Richard's teasing smile hides a tenderness he can't quite name and Georgia's heart begins to thaw beneath the warmth of his handsome features and steady devotion. As autumn deepens, the two must decide if what they once left behind was just youthful affection... or the beginning of a love that never really ended. A story of coming home, healing, and rediscovering grace. "Where Love Took Root" is a tender, slow-blooming romance reminding us that sometimes the heart doesn't move on... it waits.

╰┈➤ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐎𝐟 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 - 𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐤: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 | He rules the underworld with fear in his name and blood on his hands. Abushek - The Ruthless Sultan - trusts no one, feels nothing, and destroys anyone who dares to cross him. Until her. She wasn't meant to enter his world, yet somehow becomes the one responsibility he refuses to lose. Between enemies, betrayal, and a past that refuses to stay buried, she challenges the monster everyone fears, and awakens the man he buried long ago. In a world built on violence, love becomes his greatest weakness, and his most dangerous war.

What happens when you go on a vacation... and end up sharing a bed with your ex? Elena Moretti is more than ready for a sun-soaked getaway on the Italian coast with her closest friends. She's looking forward to late dinners, lake views, boat days and wine nights . What she's not expecting is a last-minute room mix-up that leaves her and Daniel Whitmore-the ex she never quite stopped loving-with the only bed left in the villa. One room. One bed. Unresolved history. Between whispered conversations in the dark, lingering glances across candlelit tables, and the quiet intimacy of being inches apart again, old feelings resurface faster than either of them planned. Elena and Daniel are forced to confront what really pulled them apart-and whether they're brave enough to choose each other this time. Because sometimes moving on is easier than staying. And sometimes all it takes is one bed to realize the story was never finished.

In the small, whisper-tight town of Silverlake, and Silverlake Academy is the brightest (and only) claim to fame, two prodigies are about to collide. Ainsley Rowe arrives with perfect grades, perfect manners, and the unbearable perfect expectations of her Professor father. Painfully shy and desperate to stay unnoticed, she somehow manages to outshine everyone, including Kai Han, Silverlake Academy's golden boy scholar and basketball star. For Kai, who scholarship is the only thing keeping his family afloat, Ainsley's arrival is a threat he can't afford. When a school assignment traps them together in the library's storage room, their rivalry cracks open to reveal something neither of them expected: fear, pressure and dreams they're both terrified of losing. What begins with anger and accusations slowly shift into stolen glances, shared study sessions, and a fragile connection neither know how to name. But Silverlake has shadows Ainsley never imagined, shadows Kai has been fighting in secret. When she uncovers the truth behind his late-night disappearances, their blooming romance is shaken to its core. Now Ainsley must decide if she's brave enough to stand by him... and Kai must decide if he's worthy of being loved at all.

Alma Justin thought heartbreak would look louder. Crying in public. Screaming phone calls. Closure that made sense. Instead, it came quietly - across a café table, from a man who had already stopped choosing her. With nothing left to hold onto but her pride and a mother who refuses to let her fall apart, Alma is forced to start over. New job. New rules. No room for weakness. But on her very first morning at Baires Dev, she crosses paths with a man who doesn't believe she belongs there - unaware that he's just challenged the only thing she has left: her resolve. Nick Leicester is powerful, controlled, and unused to being questioned. Alma is tired of being overlooked. What begins as resistance turns into tension. What turns into tension becomes something neither of them planned. And sometimes, the hardest battles aren't about love - they're about becoming someone you don't recognize anymore. A slow-burn workplace romance about heartbreak, ambition, and learning how to choose yourself.

What Youth Allows follows Pi, a 17 year old whose first love blooms in secrecy and breaks under the weight of fear, silence, and unfinished promises. Some loves arrive too early- before we know how to protect ourselves, before the world allows us to be brave. Other loves bloom too late: slow, careful, measured. They are nurtured gently, given chances, built over a lifetime. As youth fades into understanding, Pi learns that some people are meant to be remembered, not reclaimed. written by: Sera Forestier [ongoing]

Elle didn't mean to fall-off that step, or for her doctor. But if she has to be broken, she'll take the hot orthopedic specialist who knows exactly where it hurts.

Where two hearts beat loudest for one girl, and a quiet storm begins to gather. Yerisha arrives with nothing but a suitcase full of stories. Nick watches her like she's a riddle meant for him alone. Lee stands beside her like he's ready to protect something she hasn't even revealed yet. To anyone else, it might look like just another college story- but behind soft laughter and lingering glances, there's a silence no one dares to name. She's not here to fall in love. But fate has other plans. And so do the boys who keep circling her shadow... Because not all betrayals come from enemies. #SlowBurnRomance #LoveTriangle #EmotionalTension #CollegeDrama #ProtectiveBoys #HiddenTruths #SoftMystery #WattpadOriginal #NickLeeYarisha #leerisha #yarick

When a storm takes a sailor from her beloved ship, nothing but her words remain - letters written with salt and longing, never meant to outlive her. On the weathered docks, Selene clings to those pages as though they are lifelines, reading them again and again until the ink feels etched into her skin. Each line is a tether, binding her to the love the tide has stolen and the promise it cannot return. My Sailor's Last Voyage is a brief yet devastating tale of two women bound by love and separated by tide. Told through fragments, memories, and the silence of absence, it captures their love and the ache of waiting for a love that will never come home. Can the sea give Selene meaning to her grief? Or will she join the tides before she can truly mourn?

When artist Nia Carter returns to her family's beach house, she doesn't expect to fall for Elliot Monroe-her brother's longtime friend, thoughtful and steady, and standing at the beginning of his life. What grows between them is defined not by urgency, but by restraint, timing, and the choice to let love exist without claiming it.