Pastandpresent Stories

NAINA'S RULE: RUN FAST. DON'T LOOK BACK. But her cousin's wedding just turned into the most beautiful, most dangerous trap on earth. Because her past is on the guest list, and she is the main event. Zain is here. The ex-boyfriend who taught her the pain of commitment, and whose quiet, emotional intensity still makes her heart ache. Mikaal is here. The ex-best friend and hyper-smart rival who shattered their friendship in a blast of chaos and sarcasm. Naina is trapped between the boy she ran from and the boy she walked away from. In the middle of dancing, henna, and high-stakes family scrutiny, neither boy is pretending to be over her. It's no longer about avoiding them. It's about surviving them. She might have escaped them once, but now, under the glare of wedding lights, the choice is unavoidable: Which past is she finally ready to face, and which future is she ready to claim?

×Mature× > Paris never thought her carefree life as a modern Filipina would end so suddenly. But after an unexpected accident, she awakens in the Beast World-inside the body of Fleur, a Guardian Fairy known not for her beauty or duty, but for her scandalous reputation. Fleur had abandoned her sacred forest, neglected her wolf beastman mate, Faze, and even ignored their two children while shamelessly chasing other handsome beastmen. Hated by her family and mocked by the tribes, her name was a curse. Now Paris must live as Fleur, carrying the weight of her sins. Determined to change her fate, she vows to reclaim her place as a true guardian and win back the love of the family Fleur threw away. But Faze's eyes are cold, her children keep their distance, and the Beast World remembers Fleur's shame. Can Paris heal the wounds left behind, or will Fleur's past always haunt her? ----

This isn't a love story. It's survival. It's the story of two people who meet when everything's already falling apart. Norah Bishop is the girl who came back different - polished, popular, and carrying a secret that won't stop bleeding. She's mastered the art of pretending: perfect grades, perfect boyfriend, perfect smile. Anything to outrun the truth. Daniel Cohen has been quiet his whole life. Not because he has nothing to say, but because no one ever listened. Not when it mattered. He's not looking to be saved - just to make it through without falling apart. They're not supposed to matter to each other. But they do. In glances across classrooms. In conversations at 2 a.m. In the tiny moments no one else sees. But some pasts don't stay buried. Some pain doesn't play fair. And love - no matter how much it aches to stay - can't always fix what was never safe to begin with. But love doesn't save you. It stays with you.

🕊👓💗🎭 She chose silence.👓 He chose her.🎸 But what neither saw... were the blue eyes💙👀 watching - the past that never left. Pragya Arora lives a quiet life in Mumbai - a soft-spoken professor, known for her grace, silence, and simplicity. But behind her calm eyes lies a past she's buried.🎭 A past where she was someone else. 🎸Abhishek Mehra is a global rockstar -🎸 bold, wild, and adored by millions. He has it all... except peace. He doesn't remember what real love felt like. Until fate takes him to the one place that hides what he lost - without even knowing it.👀 Behind those ocean-blue eyes... were unspoken truths, unfinished love, and a silence louder than any goodbye.💙👀 When the echoes of their past return through music, memories, and moments... Can a love once silenced find its voice again? 🌙 Some love stories aren't meant to end. They're just waiting for the right time .... Author's Note: Hi readers 🌹 Thank you for clicking on my story! Just a small note-future chapters may include 18+ themes (mature romance & emotional intensity). Reader discretion advised. Now, let's begin... 💕

This story has been brought in place of Mistake of Past because Wattpad deleted that story but I have brought the story again keeping in mind the guidelines of Wattpad, I hope you all will like this story Destroyed Angel and you will give it a lot of love too!!!! {TAEKOOK AU} JEON JUNGKOOK is a billionaire who is ashamed of his past sins which he committed to take revenge on an innocent angel. He is regretting his sins and wants to make them right. KIM TAEHYUNG who was the victim of Jungkook's hatred for no fault of his and was consumed by his sense of revenge "I Kim Taehyung promised you today Jeon Jungkook I will make myself the way you have shown me to the whole world today" Top - Jeon Jungkook Bottom - KIM TAEHYUNG

Aranya Maithili Kamble had never wanted much from life beyond the quiet pleasure of old things. She liked histories best when they were fragmented-when they asked to be pieced together slowly, patiently, with ink-stained fingers and unanswered questions. That, more than anything else, was why she had chosen archaeology. What could be more thrilling, she had once thought, than standing at the centre of every forgotten scandal, every erased devotion, every silence that history had deliberately kept? Instead, she spent her days cataloguing broken pots and arguing about ancient drainage systems. Three years into the profession, she was painfully bored. She blamed the films. The books. The romantic lies that had convinced her archaeology was anything more than slow, meticulous disappointment. There were no quests, no revelations-only sunburn, paperwork, and ruins that refused to speak. The Vaishnavata monastery in the northern foothills of the Sahyadris was no different. Old. Modest. Historically important, yes-but emotionally inert. Aranya sighed as she crouched beside what had once been a monk's sleeping alcove, absently brushing dust from the stone wall. Her brush struck something solid. She paused. and a palm-leaf slipped into her hands-almost as if the gods themselves had grown weary of her complaints about an unremarkable profession-her life, her fate, and every carefully maintained inch of her sanity would begin to unravel in that very moment, as her eyes fell upon a single name: Anurag Syamantakam.

💌 Story Description loved too deeply, and broke too silently. Years later, Aayan Khan-now a calm-faced storm and a world-known hotel manager-has learned to build everything except peace. And Roohana Ali, a soft-spoken psychology counsellor, has mastered healing everyone... except herself. They were each other's almost. Each other's undone. Each other's unfinished chapter. When fate pulls them back into the same city, the memories they buried begin to rise-train rides, soft laughs, fights, confessions, and the love they thought time had killed. But hearts remember what minds forget. And destiny never forgets what belongs. This is a story of two people who walked away too early... and returned exactly when they were meant to.

𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒌𝒆𝒑𝒕. 𝑶𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒚𝒂𝒍, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕? Maya thought she had moved on. Seven years after the heartbreak that shattered her world, her best friend Elara returns home engaged to the one man Maya swore she'd never see again. A friendship built on love, but tied by betrayal. A past neither of them can escape. And one secret that could destroy the life they both fought to protect. And in their world, one lie didn't just hurt, it started a domino effect that changed everything. When truth and loyalty collide, the line between love and guilt begins to blur and sometimes, even the purest hearts can cause the deepest wounds. "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒅𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆." ...She did and neither of them was ever the same again....

Aiden built an empire out of stories. As CEO and co-founder of NediA® Pictures, he turns bestselling novels into films the world falls in love with. In the public eye, he is successful and untouchable. In private, he is still haunted by Elia. When a mysterious bestselling author known only as Miss E begins to feel dangerously familiar, the line between fiction and memory starts to blur. Some stories refuse to stay on the page. Some names are not meant to remain hidden. Will Aiden find his way back to Elia? And who is Miss E, really? Miss E: Love Rewritten Book Two of She Chose Herself.

After a painful breakup, Jordan leaves everything behind and moves to Europe. When he returns home months later, Liam is gone. With only a box of letters and familiar places Liam left behind, Jordan begins searching on his own-moving through memories, unanswered questions, and the quiet weight of what they once were. As each clue pulls him deeper into the past, Jordan is forced to face the things he ignored and the love he thought he lost. Some searches aren't about finding someone. They're about understanding why they left. By NoirSyntax_

Meera Sharma's heart stopped when her parents said "Malhotra." That name. THAT family. The boy who made her fourteen-year-old heart flutter with just one kind gesture in a school corridor. Seven years later, fate was handing her the impossible-marriage to Arjun Malhotra. She said yes before they even finished the sentence. But the man who walked into her living room wasn't the warm, smiling boy from her memories. He doesn't remember her. He doesn't remember anyone.

Blurb: JC Estrella was your typical prim-and-proper, girl-next-door junior from an exclusive all-girls school. She always played it safe, always followed the rules, and never really stepped out of her comfort zone. She excelled in anything creative-drawing, painting, doodling in the margins of her notebook-but when it came to math? A major struggle. Numbers stressed her out, equations terrified her, and solving for x felt like a personal attack. At least... that was seventeen years ago-back when taking risks was the last thing on her list. Mikee Manahan was your typical hunk-next-door senior from an exclusive all-boys school. Captain of the soccer team, a consistent honor student, and annoyingly good at everything. Looks? Check. Brains? Check. Charm? Unfortunately, check. Yes, he could be a bit of a snob-but somehow, it only made him even more intriguing. At least... that was seventeen years ago-when he met the girl next door. Who would've thought that after all those years, they'd run into each other again? The former girl-next-door now wearing a skimpy top and short, ripped shorts. The former hunk-next-door... carrying a little girl in his arms. One unexpected encounter. One old diary, tucked away for seventeen years. And one question JC never really answered: "What really happened... and why does it feel like it's still not over?" So let's go back- back to the '90s, when crushes were low-key, playlists were on cassette tapes, and handwritten notes meant everything. Back to first loves, missed chances, and feelings that refused to stay in the past. Because one thing was clear... her diary was proof that once upon a time, there was a Once Upon an Us.

The enchanted woods around Thorne Estate are beautiful, ancient, and hungry. When Lord Thorne finds a lost child in the mist, he brings him home. Vaeren, a quiet orphan marked by survival and a magic that grows darker and stronger with time, bending the elements he was never taught to fear. Caelia, the estate's fierce heir, is the only one who sees past the silence and the shadows. Their bond forms slowly over the years. But the world outside the woods is cruel, and alliances are heavier than love. When Vaeren is forced from the estate, old wounds turn into grudges. Years later, he returns. Richer, remade by anger and ambition, carrying the belief that he was left behind by the one person who mattered. A story of longing, resentment, and love tangled in silence and storm. **Author's Note** This short story was written for The Wuthering Heights Reimagined Contest. I don't live in the U.S., so I know I'm not eligible to win the prize, but honestly, I didn't write this for that. I wrote it because I love this kind of story and couldn't get it out of my head. Wuthering Heights has always stuck with me. This is my take on that feeling, just told in my own way. Maybe one day I develop this more, instead of being a short story withso many details being left out. Thanks for reading and letting me share this anyway.

A Goddess sacrificed herself for the sake of all realms' peaceful coexistence (realms of heaven, hell, and mortals). After dying, her soul was put in an empty void waiting for the right time to reawaken. Years later, a new identity was then brought to life with the same features and powers as the said Goddess. And what happened in the past repeats itself in the current time. The only difference between then and now is that a lover will actually sacrifice himself so that the Goddess can continue living in the present time. But when that takes place, would there still be a space left for a love? STORY STARTED: JUNE 12, 2022 STORY ENDED: AUGUST 05, 2022 BOOK COVER: httpsseoul

CANNOT BE READ AS A STANDALONE Anvaya and Nirav were childhood sweethearts. But it's been ten years-ten whole years-since they even exchanged a word. Now, as fate decides to mess with them one more time, it brings them face-to-face again... and ties them together in an arranged marriage. Will they be able to give themselves a second chance? Was their childhood love just a phase, something they outgrew... or was it something deeper? Did they truly move on in all these years, or was it just an illusion they kept feeding themselves? There's emotional history between Nirav and Anvaya that's crucial to understanding why they act the way they do now. Without knowing what happened in "Is It Just a Phase?" - the ghosting, the teenage heartbreak, the little moments - new readers might not feel the intensity between them as strongly.

She was Five when she made a promise. To the boy in the window. The one who never spoke, but always watched. Her Bunny. Then came the move. The forgetting. The silence. Years later, Evelyn is no longer that bright, talkative girl. She doesn't remember the boy. She doesn't remember the name. But someone... remembers her. And someone has been watching. When strange dreams return, when shadows flicker behind glass, Evelyn starts to question what's real- and what she forgot for a reason. "Some promises survive memory. Some don't survive the truth".

Hazel reached. She went inside and saw mom on floor crying hard and then a stretcher came out covEring small body of height same as Eri. Everything slowed down, hazel tried to pick the cover and see Eri for the last time but she couldn't do that. She ran out of hospital and sat on one of the seat available. The surrounding was quite, the only voice she could hear was of Eri, her few last word. And then harper promise: 'nothing will happen to Eri until I am with you'. She shouted in pain: 'where are you? why you didnt kept your promise? Why you even came in my life?' and she cried harder. 'Eri, sorry I am late. My baby I am late'. what do you think will happen now? Will he come? where is he? will he be there with hazel when she needed him the most?

Nico thought his past was behind him. After breaking the heart of the woman he once loved, Nico seeks redemption and a second chance not to rekindle the flames, but to make peace with the mistakes that haunt him. When Sofia, his ex, seemingly forgives him, and Francesca, a new love, enters his life, it feels like he's finally moving forward. But in the eternal city of Rome, nothing is as it seems. What begins as a heartfelt journey of healing soon spirals into manipulation, betrayal, and secrets that run deeper than guilt. When the truth surfaces, Nico must confront the harsh reality that both love and revenge can wear the same face. In a city of ancient ruins, can a man with a broken past build something unshakable?

"An immortal queen, a reincarnated love, and the battle to reclaim a future stolen by a cruel twist of fate." This is novel adaptation based one of my bots in c.ai (character.ai), Avicia Clare.

She was just a girl in 9th grade when she fell in love-pure, real, and all-consuming. But one cruel misunderstanding, planted by a third person, tore their beautiful bond apart. That heartbreak didn't break her... it transformed her. Into an author-one who hides her scars in her stories. And then there's him-the cold, powerful Asian Mafia King who rose to the top at a shockingly young age. Love never touched him. Emotions never moved him. Until one day, he picked up a story. Her story. And became obsessed-not with the plot, but with the woman behind those bleeding words. He wasn't broken. But for her... he became the healer she never knew she needed. Two lives. One past. One story that changed everything. What happens when her pen meets his world of power and darkness?