A Diamond in the Rough
- Reads 478
- Votes 29
- Parts 12
Complete Tue, Dec 29, 20151h 40m
Alexis
I have to get out of here. If I don't, I'll start to go crazy. I'll do whatever it takes. I've been lied to before, and it hurt. It hurt so bad. But now, maybe it's my turn to lie. You do what you have to right?
Zach
I'm lonely. I haven't been forever, but lately I am. My dad always showed me these lame magic tricks. Now I know they weren't real, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe magic controls everything we do. Maybe it controls everyone we meet. Why we meet them, how we meet them, how they act towards you. Now is no time to get upset about it. My dad always said magic is a way we show our emotions in an unexplainable way. He has never been so right.
Expression: a diamond in the rough
Meaning: someone who has great qualities, despite a hidden/rough exterior; someone obtaining great potential and heart
All Rights Reserved
#685
lucyhale
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
Sins Chaos
Tick-tock. Time is up. You can run, but... I wouldn't know the truth if it ran me over on a dark road and stopped long enough to introduce itself. I'm a chameleon and my days of flying under Rixton Biochemical Corp's radar has come to end. Battles fought in secret have now become public and war has been declared. Falling in love wasn't even a blip on my survival radar. From the moment I literally fell into him, it was lust at first sight and our connection was undeniable. Too bad I'm the threat he is sworn to hunt down and he's the danger I crave. ...you will be hunted... Self-delusion: the master of all lies spun; the spider that guards deceptions web. When my past comes back to haunt me, my perfectly crafted island of deceptive truths and earth-shattering lies descends into chaos. I am supposed to be the good guy. The one who hunted down the bad guys. I live in a world where the line that separates the "good" guys from the "bad" guys is just a blurry optical illusion that tricks the mind into believing whatever it wants to be true. Not everything (or everyone) is what (or who) it (they) seem. ...and the truth always finds its prey.Complete
Hell on Earth
❝My entire story is a grim web of lies in which I am drowning, as though in a dark abyss of fear and despair. And no one can pull me out of it, because, fortunately, no one will ever know the truth. Why? Because even I don't know it. ❝Pretending to be a normal person doesn't mean actually being normal. I thought that if I acted like I wasn't myself, everything would work out. I was wrong. Because someone already knows who I really am. ❝If I stop-I'll die.
Queen of Bargains: Monsters Under the Mountain
Selene was never meant to be part of this world. She had once been a medical student, living an ordinary life filled with textbooks, late-night study sessions, and the quiet certainty that magic was nothing more than fiction. Then, she woke up in a world ruled by monsters. For twenty-five years, she has survived on the outskirts of a human village, healing where she can, hiding where she must. She knows little of the High Fae, their courts, or their treacherous games. She knows only whispers-of a wicked queen named Amarantha, of a war that shattered kingdoms, of a High Lord with violet eyes and a smirk sharper than a blade. But when a raid on her village drags her Under the Mountain, Selene is thrust into a world of cruelty and deceit. Powerless and human, she should have been nothing more than another disposable servant. Instead, she catches the eye of Rhysand, Amarantha's right hand. To the world, he is a monster. A traitor. A willing pet in the queen's twisted court. But Selene has seen him at his most powerful. And now, she has seen him at his most broken. Forced into servitude, trapped in a palace where humans do not last long, Selene must navigate the deadly politics of a court built on suffering. But as she uncovers the truth hidden beneath Rhysand's carefully crafted mask, she begins to question everything she thought she knew-about this world, about him, and about the war that looms on the horizon. Because it was not fate brought her here. She was the obstacle to his fate. And fate is watching. all rights reserved to the original authorComplete
Deception: Redemption...Is A Bitch (Book Four)
Redemption found. Cameron and Jonathan discover the truth and find their way back. "I tried to stand up on my own two feet But bitter disillusion got ahold of me Thought I'd be stronger standing on my own But, all my resolution only made me weak. So when I hear you crying out And you're in trouble I will be waiting here to share your struggle The only thing that matters is you are my brother We'll never know how bad we need each other. I see you struggling under all your pain But that is not your future and it's not your name They say your image makes you who you are But something's running deeper than your surface scars. The same blood runs inside our veins Despite the walls that we create No matter how high, no matter how low I will be with you." ------ How Bad We Need Each Other by Northern WonderComplete
Deception: Consequences (Book Three)
Consequences can cause hurt, pain and sometimes love. You can find you will be pushed to something you never quite expected. Consequences make you look at your life and why you arrived where you now are. There are all kinds of consequences from realizations of family secrets and actions. Of starting something that you might not be able to live with at the end of it all. Consequences are what you have to take responsibility for and be able to endure and continue. Family is everything. These are lessons that everyone learn as they go through life, as so Cameron and Jonathan. "Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations, you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation." ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness "Self-satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you an immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences." ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of HappinessComplete
Hidden Card (Jack Wilder x OC)
Daisy Rhodes is Dylan Rhodes daughter, her mother died after giving birth to her, she's 26 years old and works as a reporter (independent reporting). Her father was a federal agent who was always too busy, even when he tried not to be, even when she was little trying to show him her neat magic tricks she'd learned. Her father wasn't strange, but she could tell he had secrets, never talked about his family or his dad. Honestly all Daisy Rhodes, really knew was that he was protective of her, and really hated her interest in magic. After years of practicing, Daisy had become one of the best magicians online using her mystery identity as "The Red Mask" her double life. But once she gets A Tarot card reading "Justice", from a mystery sender, her life gets flipped upside down and sideways, as she's brought into a new side of the world of magic. A year later and she now works with the up and coming Four-horseman, after after a rather intriguing first show that not only puts The Four Horseman on the map, it also puts them on the radar. The police radar. Now Daisy has to choose: Her life of magic or helping her father put her new found friends in jail. // "How do you keep finding us? The cops aren't even this clever?" "One thing I know how to do is get into trouble."
𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥? 〚𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚏𝚘𝚢 〛
Rose Collins has always believed in magic, even passed the age of waiting for her fairy godmother to reveal herself. Why? Because she had seen a witch. Impossible, right? Kept awake at night by thousands of questions swarming her mind and constantly under the watch of her parents, who worry about her sanity, Rose has enough of it. Armed with her wits, carefully chosen lies, and a lot of luck, she finds herself in a world she does not understand, facing a threat that could destroy everything she has grown to love. With her fate entwined with that of a silver haired boy, Rose has to choose her side. But how can a muggle fight against magic? How about by creating magic of her own...Complete
Make It Through The Lies(On-Going)
Letting go of someone who mean so much to you, who changed the person you are now, is immensely difficult. There's no way of sugarcoating it- the mere thought of letting go of the person you've always wanted to be with will make your heart writhe until the darkest of red becomes the palest of white. Though letting go is the only way for you to get your life back on track. An exemplary life is what you ought to have. But what if the one you let go of is the one you should have been with until now? What if that person is the best thing that ever happened to you but you failed to recognize it because you're too focused on getting a better life? Should you go back to him or her, ask for forgiveness and try your very best to become a part of his or her life once again? Or heighten your pride and watch him or her from afar with another person? ••• Make It Through The Lies Written by: Mizz_Azilanna Date started: March 2020 Date finished-------- Note: credits to the rightful owner of the photo.Complete
Tick-tock. Time is up. You can run, but... I wouldn't know the truth if it ran me over on a dark road and stopped long enough to introduce itself. I'm a chameleon and my days of flying under Rixton Biochemical Corp's radar has come to end. Battles fought in secret have now become public and war has been declared. Falling in love wasn't even a blip on my survival radar. From the moment I literally fell into him, it was lust at first sight and our connection was undeniable. Too bad I'm the threat he is sworn to hunt down and he's the danger I crave. ...you will be hunted... Self-delusion: the master of all lies spun; the spider that guards deceptions web. When my past comes back to haunt me, my perfectly crafted island of deceptive truths and earth-shattering lies descends into chaos. I am supposed to be the good guy. The one who hunted down the bad guys. I live in a world where the line that separates the "good" guys from the "bad" guys is just a blurry optical illusion that tricks the mind into believing whatever it wants to be true. Not everything (or everyone) is what (or who) it (they) seem. ...and the truth always finds its prey.
More detailsContent Guidelines