Name of Story: I Dream To Live
Plot: Miles Dawson is an 18 year old outcast. He has no friends, few aquaintances, and no family to help sustain his hope for a manageable future. His father, Jason Dawson, is a helpless drunk, who taints his sons very existence. His mother died 2 years after he was born. According to Peyton Dawson, his uncle, who is really the only one Miles can talk and relate to, his mother passed away after becoming incredibly ill one Winter. He says that the reason for her passing was in truth, a mystery. She never woke up after one night, when she and her husband, Jason Dawson, attempted to fend off her ever increasing fever.
The story begins with Miles, exiting the schoolyard and meeting a girl he has never met before. Her name is Saya Ayres Winters. He finds out that she is a new girl from a different school and that she is very shy. He finds her to be very peculiar, but is happy to find someone who he can relate to. She is just as shy and hopeless as he is, and is unsure of Miles' intent in the beginning of the story. In fact, the first time they meet, they talk for a mere 30 seconds before one of them messes things up, chickens out and makes a run for it. Although throughout the story, they learn new things about one another, after embarking on countless adventures. Their trust in eachother grows stronger every day, and eventually that trust turns into something much more powerful. Later on in the story, they both grow stronger, knowing that they will always do everything in their power to stand side by side, knowing that they will stop at nothing to make eachother happy, to be able to fight through lifes trials knowing that they aren't alone, that they have eachother.
This is the story of a boy and a girl, the story of an ever changing life between the two of them, and the story of love in it's true nature.
Winners Don't Have Bad Days (Watty 2020 Winner, Romance)
43 parts Complete
43 parts
Complete
When a total stranger knows what eats you, maybe they are your one true love. Even if you don't know it yet. ||
On Friday the 13th, two twenty-something, Daya and Mike, end up in a mutually beneficial arrangement: she is his caregiver after he breaks his foot; he provides room&board to help her out with a teeny-tiny cash flow problem. Not a whiff of a romance, strictly business.
And for a while, all is good... for about five minutes, that is.
What can an overweight man, a video game obsessed librarian, know about her quitting a challenging sport of figure skating, Daya scoffs. He needs to get off her case and sort out his binge eating!
What does a celery-chewing skating diva care about his failure as a PhD candidate, Mike wonders. She is just replacing her dreams with his non-existing problems instead of pursuing her one true passion!
With the two already teetering on the brink of mutually assured destruction, oil splashes onto the flames when Daya resumes her never-ending quest for skating triumph at Canadian Nationals. (Well, that should make Mike happy, right? Right?)
But isn't there *something* worth fighting for *together*? Like, you know, love?
COMPLETED. First Published: August 19, 2019
Trigger warning: This story contains themes of eating disorders and body image insecurity (male).