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Past Tense

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Reads 2,660
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Parts 8
Time 40m

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Kira Nguyen saw her childhood through watercolored eyes, her memories blending together to create fairytales and dress-up plays and songs dancing across the sky. 

Matty Connell felt his childhood was made up of discarded puzzle piece-like memories too fragmented to be put back together. And he didn't understand why he had such a hard time remembering that part of his life, until he met Kira again, almost two decades later. 

And he wondered if he still hated her. While she tried to find the words to apologize. 

All without letting go of their past.All Rights Reserved

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Ripple - [COMPLETED] [Undergoing Editing] by MFlower11

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Cynical Souls by DramaQueenforreal

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All we left behind by Ili-Akkaman91

Perhaps he will never know, but she wishes they could go back to those days, when the future seemed to be bright and there were just the two of them, and their friends, their youth, their promises. She loves him, too. But now, when happiness has faded and their promises have been broken, love seems just pointless. They don't know that love is the only thing that can save them again, as it had done once.

The wind on Our backs by Emiyuno_

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Cynical Souls cover

All we left behind cover

The wind on Our backs cover

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Ripple - [COMPLETED] [Undergoing Editing]

This story follows Katie through the final months of her senior year in high school. Her nonexistent relationship with her mother doesn't stop her from living her life to the fullest. Approaching on four years with her high school sweetheart and applying to the same colleges as her lifetime best friend she is anxiously looking forward to the future to come. She's also excited about becoming an aunt and is counting down the days until her older sister delivers. Her nurturing personality causes her to stop and sit with a boy being bullied in her school. He quickly opens up to her, but that relationship may become the most dangerous one yet. Rated Mature for violence & Mild Sexual Content.