Gapyear Stories

THIS STORY IS UNDER EDITING/REWRITING! "Even in stillness, your story continues." After reaching a breaking point from academic burnout, this story follows the journey of a young girl decides to take a one-year break from school. She retreats to her family's summer house in her hometown, expecting solitude and distance from the pressures that overwhelmed her. In this story, she'll walk through a reflective journey of healing as she learns self-love and self-discovery as she regains her spark while she also reminisced the simple joys of her childhood and family memories during her stay.

In 2017 I embarked on a three month backpacking trip around Europe. Motivated by the many accounts of travel from within religion, I went to learn. But what I experienced was not what I was expecting. This was my first time leaving the UK since I was a child and my expectations of travel and Europe were wildly out of touch. I met more people in these three months than I had in the previous ten years and had many new experiences. I was naive and many of the people I met on my travels could tell just how naive I was. Overland by bus, train and ferry through 17 countries: England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Switzerland. To 35 locations: Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Prague, Krakow, Brno, Bratislava, Vienna, Budapest, Timisoara, Sibiu, Brasov, Bucharest, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Litochoro, Athens, Delphi, Naples, Rome, Venice, Milan and Lugano. It is an account of backpacking around Europe, both the best and worst of European backpacking hostels. Long bus journeys, hitch hiking and plenty of walking. I'm not proud of my behaviour or the events surrounding this three month period of my life, but I am proud to have forced myself to do it. I hope that my story will reach people who are in similar positions to what I found myself and to plant the seed of travel as a solution to those problems. Sometimes running away is the solution. It has also been several years since my backpacking trip and I find myself constantly trying to piece my memories together. Not always knowing what city or even country a memory occurred. I feel like my memories are deteriorating so I decided to document them before fall apart completely. I'm not a writer at all and I have tried to be as honest as possible, to my own downfall. I'm open to any advice about how I can improve it.

*"And I knew he could hurt me, again and again. And I would come back to him, again and again. Because I needed him, more than he needed me. And he simply did not know, the way I loved him." * It is the year 2035, but the world is the exact same as now. After a series of natural disasters that ravaged the world, innovation has cautiously resumed, and all finally seems tranquil. Raine has grown up side by side her best friend, Grey. She's 17, ready to take on the gap year her friends simultaneously decided to take with her. A year of freedom, before college, alongside her best friends. What could go wrong? Little does Raine know how much her life is in peril. She continues to lead a double life, visiting the boy she thinks is in her dreams, doing what teenagers do...but she always knew she was different. As Raine is forced to make shocking discoveries about herself and the world around her, she realizes just how important these differences are...at the cost of life or death. ALL credits to this photo for the cover: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/cerconrp/images/f/f1/RedQueen.png/revision/latest?cb=20161010144854 Anyone who wants to make the cover look better, pm me!

FREEN AND BECKY BEING IN LOVE BY AN UNEXPECTED MEET BUT DO YOU THINK, THEY WILL HAVE A HAPPY ENDING, IF NO THEN WHY NOT?

This is an unusual love story between Nicholas and Nahoa.

Have you ever had a thought or feeling that begged to be voiced, yet remained imprisoned in the quiet corners of your mind?

VIOLET is the story of a high school graduate who honors her Dad's wishes by traveling the world as she grapples with love, grief, and anxiety as she discovers who she is and what she wants her future to be. (Thanks for being here! I'll be updating this story regularly)

The only way to describe it is summer camp on crack.

Perjalanan Awal Dimulai

Hate and love. Two concepts and emotions that are so so far from each other but then still so so close. You walk on the fine line between the two waiting for desire to bubble over. Waiting for something to click within that will make you realise maybe it was never hatred that you felt towards your other. No one would have guessed their outcome but that was the best part of their love. It was unpredictable and wholehearted, putting their hearts together in a recipe for disaster. Charlize & Roman, the perfect example of hate and love as they walk on the thin line between the two. started: 22nd January 2022 finished:????

Remon and Mika always wanted to travel the world but can barely seem to leave London. A story about two girls, some maps and a whole load of lemons

Louise Walker is a normal 17 year old girl but what happens when she goes on a gap year to LA with her 2 best friends Jodie and Ellie. Just remember; A lot can happen in a year✨

Solar Molasco a simple old girl from S PU her dream job is to be a flight attendant, he hate cheater because he hate her father, sabi niya sa sarili niya na di niya papatawarin ang ama niya na minsan naring pinaiyak siya at ang ina niya, what if she meet a boy she fall inlove to that boy, until they have a relationship until the boy cheat on her, she will forgive that boy?Kahit na niloko na siya nito gaya ng ginawa ng ama niya sa mama niya?

The year is 1975, Brooklyn Ameillia Jones is 21-years old and fresh out of college. She plans to take a gap year and work in Maryland, before heading to medical school, but her parents have different plans for her. Little does she know one trip would turn her life around.

The nineteen-year-old Maeve has been struggling with depression ever since her senior year in high school. One day, her life didn't move forward like everyone else's, but instead confronted her with her reality... 'there's nowhere for me to go.' Maeve's taken a second gap year. All of a sudden the universe has decided to make her life a roller coaster within a short time span. There are good moments but also the exact opposite. Will Maeve climb up the ladder towards her own happiness, or will something or someone block her way, or worse, push her off? ************************************* This is a relatively short story. The beginning might be a bit dragging but that changes pretty quickly. The cover (minus the letters) doesn't belong to me. All rights are reserved to the owner.

i think i kinda liked him and maybe he kinda liked me

What happens when the sweet young man falls for the rather intimmidating young woman. Tobias, the young man, is an akward being while Ivy, the young woman, seems to be quite confident. Their first time meeting having been uncommon to say the least, leaves Tobias wondering about this lady. He wonders if she thinks about him too, even after that one afternoon. Ivy, on the other hand, seemed not to be impressed at all. Or had that been what she had wanted him to believe. Will their story unfold into something more?

Basically my friend and I are BIG Larry Stylinson fans (if you don't know what that is this might not be the right story for you but it's basically Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinsons's ship name) so yes this is a fanfic about them as a couple. My friend and I are also planning to go to Paris for our gap year and go to Paris fashion week and have designed some outfits for Harry and Louis, so this is basically a fanfic about our dream to go to Paris with Larry and have them wear our designs. So yeah, I hope you like this fanfic. My name is Lauren and I will be the author and write the story however Amelie will be put as co-creator as it's about both of us and we have both contributed to the ideas and scenarios that will play out. I'm not sure how often I will post on here but will try and write as many chapters as possible and update (hopefully) weekly. We hope you will like our story and wish with us that this will become a reality. Enjoy the first chapter which is basically us meeting them and travelling together.