Loveisuniversal Stories

3,500 words - Fan fiction continuing The Shape of Water love story. Picking up where the movie left off, Giles continues his narration as he and Zelda journey to South America in search of their friends.

The One Heart That I Fell For That Didn't Beat for Me Fujiwara Sota is nobody's main character. He sits at the back of the classroom, eats lunch alone on the rooftop, and fills notebooks that no one asks to read. He is quiet. He is invisible. He prefers it that way. Aoyama Reina is everybody's everything. Top of her class. Captain of the track team. Daughter of one of the most powerful families in the city. She moves through Haruki High School like the world was built around her - and in many ways, it was. They were never supposed to speak. But one Thursday afternoon during a free period, she stops at his desk and looks at his notebook. And something about the way she asks - what do you write about? - makes him answer honestly for the first time in his life. What follows is a story about two people finding each other slowly, quietly, in library corners and stolen lunch hours, while cherry blossoms fall outside and the rest of the world looks the other way. It is also a story about the moment she tells him how she feels - and the moment he says no. Not because he doesn't feel it. But because love, for Sota, has always meant something more than just feeling. It means intention. It means faith. It means doing things the right way, even when the right way is the hardest thing he has ever had to choose. She doesn't understand. Not yet. But she is determined to. A story set in Japan, told across two acts and ten years. About the boy who loved quietly and the girl who learned what love actually means. Some hearts don't beat for you right away. Sometimes they need time to learn how.

Alycia Jackson is a plus sized girl who has just gotten a job working at the city hospital. Her hours are crazy but she will do what she needs to do to take care of her 5 month old baby Aleah Monet. Alycia says she doesn't need love.. all she needs is herself and her baby girl, but she may have to rethink that when she meets Ralph Torres. They both have secrets they aren't willing to share, but in the end they will realize that there is always somebody for everybody no matter how fucked up your past may be.