A reason to stay
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  • Parts 4
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  • Reads 144
  • Votes 14
  • Parts 4
  • Time 13m
Ongoing, First published Jul 30, 2014
As I stand on the edge of the bridge I know nothing is holding me back. I'm a screwed up teenager with anorexia, who has no friends and whose parents are both dead. I want to die. I wonder if anyone will notice that I'm gone. Probably not, no one cared about me. I wasn't always like this. I used to have a family, friends, a good life but all of that changed. It changed somewhere between the day my parents died in that stupid car accident and when my best friend died of cancer. I have nothing left nothing to live for. I stare at the jagged rocks beneath me and then at the beautiful sky above me. I want to take it all in before I jump, before my eyes close and I stop breathing. Before I die. As I'm getting ready to jump I hear someone shout something behind me. I turn around and I see a handsome boy my age running towards me, wearing a scared expression. I see his sweet, soft features. I see his blue eyes, messy brown hair and tanned skin. I see Matthew, the boy that saved my life.
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The Boy I Admire From Afar

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As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams? ***** Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]