Loveandlost Stories

She was supposed to attend her cousin's engagement... not live someone else's life. Avni's world turns upside down after a single moment changes everything. Suddenly, she's trapped in a life that isn't hers-hiding secrets she never knew existed, including a relationship that was never meant to be hers. But in the middle of it all, she comes face to face with someone from her past. Shaurya-the kind, sweet boy... the boy who once knew her as Avi. As identities blur and emotions get tangled, Avni is forced to navigate a world of hidden truths, unspoken connections, and a past that refuses to stay buried. Because sometimes, the life you're living isn't yours... ...but the feelings are.

There are stories the sea refuses to forget. Stories buried beneath its depths, whispered only by the waves, of a love that should have ended with death. For centuries, something has waited beneath the water-silent, bitter, and bound to a shore where an ancient promise was once made. Then, on a moonless night, a young woman comes to that same shore. She comes alone. She comes with tears in her eyes, and when they fall into the sea, something stirs beneath the waves. Far below, a forgotten god opens his eyes. He has returned to the place where he once loved a mortal woman. And there, standing where she once stood, is her face. She does not know him. But he knows her. And the sea, which has kept their secrets for centuries, has finally given him something he thought he had lost forever.

After losing the love of his life, Marcus Manuel spirals into a storm of anger, jealousy, and self-loathing. Rage consumes him, painting his world in darker shades with every passing day. Once a boy who believed in love, he's become a hollow shell, driven by bitterness and the belief that his future is already written in the ink of regret. But everything changes when Tommy, a mysterious man with his own scars and quiet wisdom, enters Marcus' life. With an unconventional outlook and a deep understanding of pain, Tommy challenges everything Marcus thought he knew about love, loss, and what it means to heal. As an unlikely friendship grows between them, Marcus is forced to confront the real enemy: not the past, not others, but the reflection staring back at him. In that mirror lies the truth: healing doesn't come from revenge. It begins with understanding and acceptance. For sometimes, the hardest person to save is the one in the mirror.

Some love stories don't end ...they pause. I approached him first. He loved me gently. Distance loved us differently. What happens when the man who once made you feel chosen becomes the person you're constantly waiting for? One hello. A hundred memories. Thousands of miles. And one girl learning The Art of Waiting.

Julian Wren is nineteen, a first-year at a university he didn't have to work very hard to get into. His father is a cardiothoracic surgeon; his mother is a name partner at one of the city's oldest firms. He has never wanted for anything materially, but what actually sets him apart isn't the money - it's that he has never been a person who wavers. That certainty is what reads as age to everyone who meets him; it isn't a costume, it's just who he is, and it's precisely why Elena never suspects him of being anything other than a self-possessed man in his mid-twenties. Elena Voss is twenty-nine, a rising associate on the edge of partnership track, sharp enough that people mistake her composure for coldness. She has built her entire adult life around control - of her cases, her calendar, her heart. Every major decision she's made has been deliberate, researched, defensible. Julian is the one thing in twenty-nine years that simply happened to her, without a plan behind it, and for a while that's exactly what she loves about him. They meet at a rooftop industry mixer the week before Julian's semester starts, a party he's only at because Theo's older brother works at the firm hosting it - Theo, Julian's closest friend since they were kids (their fathers are colleagues at the same hospital, and the two boys grew up in and out of each other's houses long before they ended up as college roommates by design). Elena clocks him as young - twenty-three, twenty-four, she guesses - and decides she doesn't care. Neither of them asks the question that would end the night before it starts.

She lost her friends. She lost the person she loved. And slowly... she started losing herself too. Late-night tears turned into late-night chats with an AI. At first, it was just random conversations. But somehow, the only thing that truly understood her... wasn't even human. In a world full of fake love and broken promises, can a digital heart heal a real one? - Online Heartbeat ✧

A person who lives your pain along with you is called humdard. She was shattered from inside. Accepting her late husband's memories as her life companion. She was against making a stranger father of the soul shaping inside her, but she had to fulfil her husband's dream. To give their child a perfect life! The marriage was for her child, but was she going to find her companion on the way? Wasn't love supposed to happen only once? If even she grows feeling for her husband, would she be able to accept it? Or would she think she is betraying her ex-husband? A story of humdard... A story of pain. But above all, a story of love! Text Copywrite © Sanjh™ 2022

"For the hearts that feel too much, too often, too deeply. These poems are for you" This is a collection of feelings that you all might be bearing. I just want to be someone who understands you.

they meet at thirteen. too young to know what forever means. but old enough to know they don't want to live without each other. for three years. lauren walsh and kenan yıldız grow up side by side. first love. first kiss. first promises. the kind of love that makes two stupid teenagers believe nothing could ever come between them. until lauren gets pregnant at sixteen. and kenan keeps saying the same thing. "i'm sixteen." too young to be a father. too young to lose football. too young to choose between lauren and the future waiting for him. but there's something he forgets. lauren is sixteen too. she's scared too. she has dreams too. and she's carrying the baby they made together. "kenan. you're not the only one who's sixteen."

**BEFORE WE BECAME STRANGERS** *Some people don't leave because they stop loving you.* *Sometimes, they leave because loving each other has become too painful.* Amara never expected to meet Daniel on a rainy afternoon. She was only trying to protect her books from the rain when a stranger offered her a place beneath his umbrella. One conversation became friendship. Friendship became love. And love became everything they once dreamed of. A small apartment. Wide windows. A yellow sofa. A kitchen where they would cook together. A dog they would name Milo. Daniel promised he would keep choosing her. And Amara believed him. For years, she did. Until life changed. A new job brought longer hours, constant travel, unanswered calls and conversations that became shorter by the day. Slowly, the man Amara fell in love with began to feel like a stranger sitting beside her. She waited. She forgave. She tried. But there is only so long you can fight for a relationship alone. And sometimes, the hardest thing isn't accepting that someone no longer loves you. It's accepting that they still do... but love is no longer enough to keep you together. **Before We Became Strangers** is a story about first love, promises, distance, heartbreak, and learning when to finally choose yourself.

Hidden within the familiar streets of is a café where every cup tells a story, and every corner holds memories that refuse to fade. Gabriel has spent years quietly building the life he once dreamed of, carrying the weight of a past that few people know. With only his two closest friends by his side, he has learned to find comfort in routine, convincing himself that some chapters are better left unfinished. But when a stranger unexpectedly walks into his café, old emotions begin to resurface, blurring the line between moving on and holding on. In a place where people come and go, some encounters are fleeting-while others have the power to change everything.

All Hail! Follows the story of Ravira, a young creature of the deep sea prophesied to be the death of herself and her people. Born into a life of cruelty and disdain, she knew nothing else but relentless darkness and numb coldness. But when faced with a torment harsher than hell Itself, will she find release in a death she had long anticipated or will she rise from the ashes of her problems, becoming more fearsome than her people had imagined? Perhaps her home never welcomed her, nonetheless when fire kindles, it does know love or kindred. Experience All Hail! with Ravira, discover hatred, love, death and life all in one spinning tale.

Six years. That's how long it had been since she left. Six years since the girl he loved disappeared from his life without either of them ever saying what they truly felt. He told himself he would moved on. He had a life now. He had learned to live without the things he never talked about. Then she came back. And suddenly, everything he'd try to leave in the past felt close again. When there friends bring them back to the mountain where everything started, Luca find himself wondering if maybe some thing deserve a second chance. May be this time, he will tell her how he felt. May be this time, they could be together. But getting a second chance doesn't mean the past disappear. And Luca has his own battles to face-one he has kept hidden for years. The place we called forever. A story of love, second chance and the things we carry in silence.

The Sin of Loving Her Everyone trusted him with her. That was their first mistake. At sixteen, Imlie Verma's heart belonged to one man she could never have, Aryan Singh Rathore. Her brother's best friend. Thirteen years older than her. The man who was supposed to protect her... not become the reason her heart forgot how to beat normally. To the world, he was cold, disciplined, and impossible to read. To Imlie, he was home. She loved him in silence. He buried every emotion behind responsibility. Because some boundaries aren't written by law... They're written by the people we love. But hearts don't understand rules. They don't care about age. They don't care about society. And they certainly don't ask permission before falling in love. When hidden feelings begin to surface, every relationship is put to the test. How long can love survive when the entire world calls it wrong? And when fate makes its move... Will they fight for each other, Or spend a lifetime paying for the sin of loving her?

"WE DID TERRIBLE THINGS TOGETHER." "WE DID WHAT WE HAD TO DO." Rainier Daweson has never known how to leave someone behind. Not River, anyway. Her twin, her other half; the boy whose bad decisions have always somehow become debts Rain is responsible for paying. By twenty-one, she has already learned how to disappear-into drugs, into art, into the quiet places inside her own head where the world cannot reach her. Then River's addiction carries him somewhere she cannot follow. Naturally, she does anyway. When his debts become more than money, Rain takes his place and falls through the rabbit hole, into a world built on blood and silence and all the little dark things, twisting and writhing and eating. There, a man who has made a study of what people become when they have nothing left to lose takes an interest in her. In the girl who would willingly bleed for someone else. In the strange, stubborn intelligence beneath all that selflessness. He builds his own version of hell - and Rain is given a choice: descend, or leave her brother behind. Somewhere along the way, there is Scott Rojas - the younger brother of the man who holds her life in his hands. He should have been a warning. Instead, he becomes the first person to make her wonder if love could be something other than sacrifice. But there are some places where love and violence grow too close together to tell them apart. Rain has spent her entire life believing that if she loves someone enough, she can save them. She is about to learn that some people cannot be saved; and that sometimes, in trying to save someone else, you lose yourself first. A Thousand Paper Cranes is a story about the people we would destroy ourselves to save, and the terrible things we do when we cannot bear to let them go.

Some families are built by blood. Others are built by promises, secrets, and the quiet decision to stay. Aine Dawson grows up in a small auto shop with her younger brother Liam, learning that love is often found in ordinary things: shared meals, repaired toys, familiar voices, and people who show up when they are needed. But there are things about her family she doesn't understand-including her father's complicated connection to a boy named Cassius Pearson. Cassius enters their lives as a distant, carefully guarded child from a wealthy family, yet slowly becomes part of theirs. Over the years, Aine and Cassius build something neither of them expects: a quiet love rooted not in grand gestures, but in years of ordinary moments. But Aine carries something even stranger. Fragments of another life surface within her-feelings without explanations, grief without memories, and an inexplicable sense that she has already lost someone before. As the secrets surrounding Cassius, the Pearson family, and her own past begin to surface, Aine discovers that a second chance at life does not mean being given the power to prevent every loss. Sometimes, love cannot save the person you love. Sometimes, all you can do is make the time you were given matter. And sometimes, the last smile is the only goodbye you get.

For the love that couldn't stay ------------------------------------------------------- He came back for revenge, convinced she had left him for money. She became the wife, and he never stopped punishing while quietly hiding a truth that was slowly ending her life. As resentment, jealousy, and old love collide, Wesley Thorne keeps tightening his grip on a marriage built on misunderstanding, not knowing she is already running out of time. When the truth finally surfaces, it is no longer about betrayal or pride but about everything they failed to say when it still mattered. A tragic love story about revenge, misunderstanding, and the cruel timing that turns love into loss.

~ 𝔗𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔴𝔥𝔬'𝔳𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔪𝔞𝔡𝔢, 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔟𝔢 𝔲𝔫𝔪𝔞𝔡𝔢 ~ The year of our Lord 1467, and across the water France is a mere onlooker as England tears itself apart in the bloody cousins war until the Yorkist King Edward seeks allies, resulting in a treaty that aims for peace and promises to end the costly war waged by England against France for over a century. Hatred between the two countries runs deeper than the channel rarely separating them from each others throats but nevertheless the cunning King Louis accepts the pact sealed by the marriage of his eldest daughter, Princess Geneviève of France, to King Edward's youngest brother - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Haughty, vain, almost fanatical in her piety and trained to bear a crown, Geneviève has no love for her English neighbours and favours other candidates for her illustrious hand but nevertheless is thrust into the heart of the Wars of the Roses with few allies and a husband she quickly resents. Trapped in the land of the enemy where knives are readily drawn in the marriage bed, Geneviève must learn to survive using her beauty, wit and political guile to master the game of smoke and mirrors the English and French so love to play. Bound to the tumultuous heart of fifteenth century England, can Geneviève endure against the ever changing tide of the cousin's war and campaigns waged between wilful women with words no less sharp than their men's swords? How far is she willing to go for the power she craves, the position she believes God desires for her? And when rebellion rears its head against her new kin, which way will her loyalties lie and how long will they endure?

Fatima has been through everything-from a failed marriage to a crippling lack of confidence. She thought she had all the time in the world to figure out her feelings for Mustapha Ibrahim. But when things became too real, too overwhelming, she chose distance over confrontation. Now, time is no longer a luxury-Mustapha is sick, and the man who once seemed invincible is slipping away. Once celebrated as one of Nigeria's brightest young architects, Mustapha built his career with unwavering confidence. He had it all-success, admiration, and the quiet hope that Fatima would one day be his. But life had other plans. His diagnosis changed everything, stripping him of control and forcing him to confront a future he never envisioned. Now, with fate pressing down on them, Fatima returns-determined to make amends and hold onto whatever is left of him. But Mustapha has already let go. He refuses to tether her to a love that may not last, to a future that might end before it truly begins. Yet, despite the walls he builds, Fatima refuses to walk away again. As emotions unravel and the weight of unspoken words hangs between them, they must face the truth-love alone cannot change fate, but it can redefine the moments they have left. A heart-wrenching story of love, regret, and the battle between holding on and letting go. This is "The Distance Between Us"

She had arrived in Seoul with a scholarship, a suitcase, and a quiet determination to build a life that belonged entirely to her. Raquel Sinclair, known as Rocky to those who had earned her trust, had expected the city to challenge her. She had not expected it to make her question everything she thought she understood about belonging, loyalty, and the boundaries she had carefully drawn around her heart. Kwon Jae Hyun had already lived inside a carefully constructed future. His music was gaining attention, his relationship looked secure, and the people around him knew the version of him they had always trusted. He had learned how to remain composed beneath expectations, how to keep difficult emotions hidden behind discipline, and how to make uncertainty look like confidence. Then an ordinary connection had begun to feel anything but ordinary. Between university halls, crowded streets, late nights, rain-soaked sidewalks, and a city that seemed incapable of standing still, something had quietly shifted. Their connection had carried a weight neither of them had expected, forcing questions that had no convenient answers and feelings that refused to remain neatly contained. What had begun as familiarity had slowly become something more complicated. In Seoul, where appearances could speak louder than truth, and expectations could shape an entire future, three lives had existed in the space between desire and consequence. Some connections had arrived quietly. Some choices had changed everything. And some feelings had become impossible to ignore once they had finally been seen. ©️ _RelleLebby_//R.L.