Moving-on Stories

(Must Date the Playboy Book 2) Tori tried her best to move on from the playboy who broke her heart. But just as she thought she was finally okay, Zach unexpectedly came back to mess her up. In order to stop her feelings from resurfacing-and to save herself from hurting-she decided to hate the playboy. But is hating the playboy the key to her happiness? Or will it just cause another heartbreak? *** When Victoria 'Tori' Peige dated the playboy Zachary 'Zach' Anderson based on lies, they sure have paid the price. After being left heartbroken by him eight months ago, she is finally ready to move on. Just as she gives James a chance, Zach comes back and messes up her life again. Will Tori choose to be brave and be honest with her own feelings? Or will she continue hating the playboy even if her heart tells her otherwise? Cover Designed By Lydia Carr

Sarah Suarez was doing her best to survive adulthood, which was hard when life kept acting like a full-time hater. After discovering her fiancé's affair with her former friend, publicly humiliating half the people at a reunion party, and losing the carefully crafted version of herself in one disastrous night, Sarah is forced to start over from scratch. Again. With a sick mother to care for, bills piling up, and a future hanging by a thread, the last thing she needs is Henry Salva: a dangerously handsome CEO with too much money, too many secrets, and a habit of appearing whenever her life falls apart. Henry is calm, composed, and emotionally impossible to read. A man who terrifies boardrooms without raising his voice, and should have nothing in common with someone like Sarah, yet somehow, their paths keep crossing. From drunken disasters and emotional breakdowns to late-night conversations and dangerously blurred boundaries, Sarah finds herself drawn to the one man she knows she should avoid. But healing is never simple, especially when old wounds, buried truths, jealous exes, and the ghosts of Henry's past threaten to destroy whatever is growing between them. *trigger warning: has minor PTSD episodes. [word count: 95, 000 - 100,000 words] ||Edited to the best of my ability|| ||One year later, 'the best of my ability' has improved, so I will be editing again (more like a rewrite, actually).|| Edited chapters will have a ✔

Tides of the Soul is a poetic, reflective novel about healing, self-discovery, and learning to let go of what no longer serves us. Just like the tides that carry away the old to bring in the new. Life moves like the ocean, always shifting, always changing. We hold on to pain like stones in our pockets, weigh ourselves down with the ghosts of what could have been, and let the past pull us under like an unforgiving current. But what if we chose to surrender? What if we let the waves cleanse us, let the tide carry away our burdens, and trusted that what is meant for us will always return? Through lyrical prose and deep introspection, Tides of the Soul takes you on a journey of release, acceptance, and renewal. A story of breaking free from the weight of yesterday and learning to embrace the ebb and flow of life. Like the ocean, we are meant to move, to change, to let go. And maybe, just maybe, we are meant to be free.

For ten years, Maya loved Jay in all the quiet ways that never make it into love stories. She remembered deadlines he forgot. She paid fees she couldn't afford. She put her dreams on hold while helping him chase his. Piece by piece, sacrifice by sacrifice, she helped build the life he always wanted. There was just one problem. When he finally became the man they had dreamed of together, he chose someone else. Now Maya is left standing in the ruins of a future she spent years creating, forced to answer a question she never thought she'd have to ask: Who is she when the person she built her world around is gone? A heartbreaking story about love, loyalty, loss, and finding yourself after giving everything away. Because sometimes the greatest heartbreak isn't losing the person you love. It's realizing you helped them become the person who left. Inspired by real events and a person I deeply admire, this story is not a work of fiction.

some feelings are easier to type than say out loud. typed, erased, repeated. is a collection of poems, late-night thoughts, unfinished feelings, love that stayed too long, memories that still ache, and the kind of emotions people pretend they've moved on from. these pages were written in moments of overthinking, healing, missing, loving, breaking, and becoming. maybe you'll relate to some of them. maybe you'll wish you didn't.

Five years ago, Ethan left me behind with nothing but a broken heart and unanswered questions. Now he's back. Only this time, he's no longer the struggling dreamer I once loved. He's successful, famous, and completely different from the man who walked away. The problem? I have a boyfriend now. Unfortunately, Ethan didn't come back to give up

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Ren Takahashi is quiet, academically brilliant, and emotionally guarded. He prefers rainy afternoons and empty classrooms to the noise of high school life. When a class festival forces him to recruit artists, he stumbles into the school's forgotten art room - and meets Sayaka Mizuno, a talented girl who sketches loneliness better than anyone he's ever known. Sayaka is warm in private, but distant in public. She shares secret playlists, late-night messages, and the quiet comfort of the art room, yet she flinches whenever someone sees them together. As Ren is drawn deeper into her world, he discovers that Sayaka has a boyfriend, a carefully managed public image, and a fear of emotional honesty that keeps him suspended between hope and confusion. While Ren waits for her to choose - between him, her boyfriend, and herself - he unintentionally neglects the people who have always been there: Arata, his sarcastic but loyal best friend, and the quiet voice inside him that knows something is wrong. Then Aoi Nishimura returns. Aoi was Ren's childhood friend, back in Yokohama after eleven years. She is the opposite of everything Sayaka represents: direct, steady, unafraid to say exactly what she feels. She doesn't make him decode her words or wait for clarity. And as Ren slowly learns what honest love actually looks like, he must decide whether to keep holding onto the past - or finally let go and move forward. Set against the rainy, nostalgic backdrop of Yokohama, The Life of an Otaku is a story about emotional confusion, self-respect, and the quiet courage it takes to stop waiting for someone who was never really there. --- Themes · Emotional waiting and uncertainty · Public vs. private identity · The pain of mixed signals · Self-respect and personal growth · Genuine friendship vs. emotional obsession · Healing after one-sided attachment · The difference between intensity and peace in love --- Author's Note: This story is inspired by a phase of my life.

Tracy and Samuel were never simple. What began in quiet library corners and late-night conversations became an all-consuming, intoxicating first love. No matter how many times they fell apart, they always found their way back to each other. Until Tracy finally chose herself. Determined to end the cycle, she begins rebuilding-reclaiming her voice, her friendships, and the parts of herself she once silenced. For the first time, goodbye feels permanent. But Samuel doesn't accept rejection quietly. Calculating and manipulative, he exposes something deeply personal between them, turning Tracy's private heartbreak into a public spectacle. Whispers replace comfort. Stares replace safety. And the girl who was just learning to stand again must now fight to protect her name, her dignity, and her future. Because surviving heartbreak in private is one thing. Surviving manipulation and betrayal in public is another.

What happens when Remus Lupin finds out all his friends are gone? How does he move on from the betrayal and heart break? He does his best, and one day notices something that just might change everything. What if Sirius convinced all his friends to get matching tattoos and used a little bit of blood magic to connect them all? What if something about the tattoo makes Remus think Peter is still alive and that there is more to the story? "Sanguis Notae" means "Blood Marks" in latin, and I hope the title now makes sense. I am trying my best. I hope you like my idea and enjoy the journy with me.

මගේ නම නොතිබූ හදවත්,📖🖤 හැඳින්වීම "ආදරය කළ හැම කෙනෙක්ම අපිට හිමි වෙන්නෙ නෑ... හැබැයි, හිමි නොවන බව දැන දැනත් සමහර හදවත් ආදරය කරනවා." කවදාවත් මට හිතුණේ නෑ... මගේ ජීවිතේ ලොකුම වේදනාව වෙන්නේ ආදරය කියලා. එක වතාවක් හිතුවා... ඔහු මාව දකීවි කියලා. ඊට පස්සේ හිතුවා... තවත් කෙනෙක් මගේ හදවතේ හිස්තැන පුරවයි කියලා. ඒත් අන්තිමේදී තේරුණේ, සමහර මිනිස්සු අපේ ජීවිතේට එන්නේ නවතින්න නෙවෙයි... මතකයක් වෙන්න. ආදරය කළ හැම හදවතකම මම මගේ නම ලියන්න උත්සාහ කළා. ඒත්... කාලය ගෙවුණු පසු දැනගත්තේ, ඒ කිසිම හදවතක මගේ නම තිබුණේ නැති බවයි... එදා මම තීරණයක් ගත්තා. මගේ නම මගේම පොතක ලියාගන්න. මේ... "මගේ නම නොතිබූ හදවත්" 📖🖤 ⚠️ සටහන: මෙහි එන සියලුම චරිත, නම්, සිදුවීම් මනඃකල්පිතයි. සත්‍ය පුද්ගලයින් සමග කිසිදු සම්බන්ධයක් නැත... මේ... හිත බිඳුනු හැමෝටම... අවුරුදු 4ක් හිතින් විතරක් ආදරේ කළා. අවුරුදු 2ක් ජීවිතේ දුන්න

After escaping an abusive relationship that left her with PTSD and a fear of rejection, Lilian Miller, a young transgender woman in a small town, has largely withdrawn from dating and emotional intimacy. While working in the local bookstore that has become her refuge, she meets Isaiah Bennett, a recently divorced history teacher, whose quiet kindness slowly breaks through the walls she has built around herself. As their relationship deepens, she must decide whether she can risk trusting someone again.

The Story of the Birth of Love Love doesn't always start with a confession. Sometimes it begins with a glance across a crowded room. A late night conversation. A mutual silence that says all somehow. Year Before is the story of two who never meant to fall in love but found themselves each other's favourite memory. They learn how love is made in the boring days, the unsaid things, the laughter, the stumbles, the heartbreaks. Not in the big moments, but in the little moments we hardly realise until they are gone. A story of first love, growing up, and the bittersweet beauty of knowing some people change your life forever, even if they aren't meant to stay. A year. Two hearts. A million things unspoken.

Kailan mo nalaman na kaya mo palang mabuhay para sa lahat, maliban sa sarili mo? Ysabelle Serene Herera never had the luxury of falling apart. Nung namatay ang tatay niya, wala siyang oras para umiyak dahil may bayarin, may kakailanganin, at may aasahan sa kanya. Kaya naging ganun na lang siya, yung taong laging nandoon, yung taong hindi pwedeng sumuko. At nung sinaktan siya ng taong pinakamatiwalaan niya, hindi rin niya binigyan ng oras ang nararamdaman niya. She simply left. Quietly, without looking back, because sometimes the smartest thing you can do is stop waiting for things to get worse. The life she chose was never kind to her but she stayed anyway. She worked, she survived, and slowly she learned how to breathe again. She built a life that was finally, completely hers. Okay na siya and this time, she actually meant it. Then he came along. Cassian Drevian De Leoncourt. And Ysa, who had spent her whole life paying bills, swallowing pain, and holding everyone else together, finally met someone who looked at her like she was the one who needed to be held. She had spent so long searching for a place that felt like peace. But what if he was either her serenity, or the most beautiful chaos she would ever survive?

Sometimes I re-read chapter through chapter, sometimes I just let it wide open and reminisce us. I still wonder if one day the story will continue telling our story or it has to come to a close. Maybe this is my way to cope the feeling of missing you.

"Let's divorce," he said quietly, so softly I almost didn't hear it. I wasn't surprised. Deep down, I had known it was coming. Those quiet nights when he didn't come home, those long days when it felt like everything between us was slowly drifting apart. The only surprise was the timing-that he asked me a week before our third wedding anniversary. I set my chopsticks down and looked at him. The meal had been eerily quiet, and now his words cut through the silence like glass shattering. "I'm done. Thank you for the food." I stood, pushing my chair back, and walked toward the living room. I needed to escape-because if I stayed any longer, I knew I would beg him to take his words back. After a while, he followed. I was sitting on the sofa when he appeared, an envelope in his hand. Without a word, he sat across from me, placed it on the coffee table, and pushed it toward me. His movements were slow, deliberate. I picked it up and slid the documents out. Divorce Agreement. My chest tightened. I set the papers down, then rose and walked to our bedroom. At my vanity, I pulled open the drawer and took out a pen-the same pen I had used to sign our wedding certificate. My hand didn't even shake. When I returned to the living room, I stopped mid-step. He was crouched forward, elbows on his knees, his hands clutching his hair. The last time I had seen him like that was in college-when he ended our four-year relationship. And here he was again, in the same broken posture, ending our three-year marriage. I moved past him and sat back down on the sofa. I opened the documents and uncapped my pen. But before the ink touched the paper, my hand froze. "Am I that easy to dispose of?"

Sophie's life was full of quiet brilliance, curiosity, and deep love for those around her. From her devoted but sometimes overbearing father to her younger sister Lily, and to her friends Daniel and Ravi, Sophie shaped the world with her presence and her choices-small gestures, moments of care, and the subtle ways she connected with others. Tragedy strikes, and Sophie dies unexpectedly. Those she loved are left grappling with grief, guilt, and the weight of things left unsaid. But Sophie's spirit lingers, observing and feeling. From her father learning to release the expectations he placed on her, to Lily discovering her own capacity for joy, to Daniel and Ravi finding the courage to move forward while honoring her memory, the story traces the subtle yet powerful ways love persists beyond presence. Love, the story reminds us, is never simple. Timing, choice, and chance can twist it into forms we never expect. Sophie's life ended too soon, but the echoes of her choices and her connection continue to shape the living. We do not always get a chance to respond later, fix it later, or make the perfect choice-but the love we carry forward remains. Ultimately, the novel is a meditation on loss, memory, and the invisible threads that connect us. Grief transforms into grace, absence creates space for growth, and life finds its way back to hope. Sophie's journey is both ethereal and deeply human-a story of letting go, moving forward, and the subtle, almost imperceptible ways love endures.

For eight years, Xina loved only one man-Xander. Despite his countless betrayals, lies, and broken promises, she stayed, believing that love meant forgiveness and second chances. But with every apology she accepted, Xina lost a little more of herself. What once felt like love slowly became a cycle of manipulation, heartbreak, and emotional survival. When she uncovers Xander's deepest betrayal-one involving someone she trusted-Xina is finally forced to face the truth she has spent years avoiding. As the illusion of their relationship shatters, she begins a painful journey toward healing, self-worth, and letting go. A heartbreaking yet empowering story about toxic love, betrayal, and emotional awakening, The Weight Of Staying reminds us that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is walk away from the person you love and choose yourself instead.

"𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐦?"