Onethatgotaway Stories

I loved her first. She married him anyway. Ten years later, she showed up at my door, broken, betrayed, begging for help to leave the husband who threw her away. She thinks I'm being kind. Helping an old friend. She doesn't know I've been waiting. She never knew how I loved her. Never knew I watched her wedding from the back of the church. Never knew she was the reason I buried my heart so deep even I forgot where. Now she's back. Vulnerable. Trusting. Asking the one man who never stopped wanting her to help her walk away from someone else. This time? I'm not letting her go.

"She's a friend of my wife's."

Before the sold-out shows, the screaming crowds, and the life that pulled him away from me, there was just us - late nights, shared headphones, and a future we never said out loud. When Calum left to chase his dream, I told myself love was patient. That best friends always find their way back. Years later, he does come back - older, famous, and still looking at me like I'm home. But some things don't stay broken once. Loving him was never loud. It was the bassline between us - steady, constant... and the thing that broke us both.

Megan Brooks grew up in a family of five younger sisters. Now she's a 28 year old woman that has a paying job and her share of past boyfriends. So what happens when you are the only person in your family who hasn't found Mr. Right? And when your job reminds you of that everyday? Join Megan on her roller coaster of emotions and her search for Mr. Right. (Completed)

"I just wanna stay in that lavender haze." - Taylor Swift These were never meant to be read. But here they are-out in the open. I wrote about you in silence. In notes. In letters. In messages I never sent. Maybe out of fear, maybe out of timing. Maybe because I didn't know how to say "I love you"... so I said "I purple you" instead. This isn't a story. Just fragments. Of a girl who felt too much and said too little. Of a boy who might never know. And of a heart that finally got tired of hiding. Not so secret anymore, hehe.

Liking a friend is always followed by taking risk, do you have the guts to take the risk? Or you will just leave your feelings swept by the wind? --- Read at your own risk.

After a break-up, Leah (The ex) went to live with her mom but it turns out that her mom died a 3 years ago. read story to know more.

First he was a background character to me, then we hit high school, and he was all I could think of. what is wrong with me? I look back, and he had written himself in my past, but I don't remember him. And we go our separate ways after high school , I lose contact with him, or the occasional story post. And now he is standing in front of me as I have a mess around me.

The one that got away? If asked a week earlier, tycoon Jack Strauss would have said he'd made his peace with the past. But one glimpse of his first love, Angela Mancuso, and he knows he's been lying to himself. He needs to make amends, but will Angela even want to see him again? Angela has never forgotten her brief romance with Jack—or the dark days that followed its ending. Now he's back, she must decide whether to let him back into her life…especially when she realizes he still has a hold on her heart!

For the one that got away

Looking for someone who was in my life, and no matter how far I travel I can't help but prefer the path behind me. Please give me all the feedback you have no matter how brutal.

collection of the most beautiful random thoughts and phrases

Inspired by the song "One that got away by Katy Perry", I started to write these series of short stories. My intention was to entertain, and everything is just based on my imagination. Thank you. ❤️

Part 2 to Always the Bridesmaid Never the Bride! Dear_____,(sorry no spoilers for those who didn't read book 1) I am writing this letter to tell you that I am okay. I remember how caring and protective you were over me and I'd like to thank you for that. Its been over 10 years and I've lost connection with you. I'm not hear to brag, I just wanted to tell you somethings that I've always wanted to say face to face but never got the chance.

A poem expressing the feeling of constantly meeting new guys trying to find one like the one that got away.

Katie had a very confusing love life in highschool, only now it will come back to haunt her and try and take the one thing she cares for most, Annie. Jeanne was Katie's best friend, but when she ends up knocked up. She gives Katie Annie, and runs off. Life is finally good, until Annie's two potential father's want custody. Sorry the description is poor, book is way better. also can we just pretend paternity tests don't exist. wrote the first chapter and it slipped my mind.

Jane was raised by her free spirited uncle, but when he moves to Paris she is forced to live with her grandpa for the summer in a small town where she finds romance and secrets to her past that she never knew were there.

WE'VE ALL KNOWN A GIRL LIKE HER is a story about that one person in our lives that we have loved slightly more than was reciprocated and the anguish, ambiguity and self-reflection that results. James Bailey has a good life. He's a young charismatic music executive living in New York City taking full advantage of his 20's. However this is not necessarily a story about how good his life is - but rather the intimate and honest journey that he travels in the pursuit of love and the attempt of stopping his soulmate from getting away. After years of constant persistence James is left to wonder if the path he ultimately chose in life was the correct one.