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This story was previously known as "The Awakening". ~*~ "One... two... three... one... two... three... a million... is that number right?" A figure less voice echoed. "Hello? Who's there?" Caliope asked, focusing on that voice. "One... two... who? A million... a billion... no, it's more... a legion..." Silence. She had seen too many horror movies and heard too many stories about that single word to overpass its meaning. The voice went quiet, yet she was still unable to see where it came from. She rubbed her eyes and all she could see around her was a thick path in a jungle-like scene. She didn't remember how she got there, but she knew it was for something important. Her eyes focused on the far end of the path and all she could see were more trees. She turned to the opposite side and found just the same. "One... two... billions... but always back at one..." the voice resumed it's counting. "Where are you? Who are you?" ~*~ -Her name is Caliope, and when she was a young girl, she never believed in happy endings. For her, there was nothing more than what you see in front of you. All she needed was her best friend Vanessa. Her background is very simple; a foster child with foster parents that were everything but warm and caring. Regardless of that, she became a smart and responsible young woman, ready for whatever came her way. At least that is what she thought. Her new job interview changed her life. It changed everything she ever believed in, and what she thought it was real. Her new boss is an amazing woman who has a son, something different from what he is made out to be. As she discovers the hidden truth about her boss and her son, she has to prepare herself for a whole new world that will unfold to her. ~*~ Intro collaboration with my loyal reader @GabrielleCarden Original Picture from the cover made by Marcus J. Ranum ~*~ This story has erotic scenes, religious perspectives, and judgment. Be warned and read at your own risk.

"I'm assuming that little speech was meant for me?" "It was meant for everyone." "But mostly me. Is it because I called her selfish earlier? Are you still hung up on that?" "I'm not hung up on anything, Gemma." "Then why would you go up there and say that?" I demand, my voice rising above a whisper. "Of all days, why would you choose today to publicly humiliate me?" "Today isn't about you, Gemma," Bowie says, catching me by surprise. "Today is about Raelyn, and the fact that we all failed her." ----------- 𝕲𝖊𝖒𝖒𝖆 𝕭𝖊𝖆𝖚𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖙's life is turned upside down the day she gets the call that her best friend, Raelyn, took her own life. No note, no explanation, just an empty bottle of pills atop a mountain of unanswered questions. As far as Gemma knew, Raelyn wasn't depressed. Why did she do this? Why did she kill herself? While searching for answers, she forms a bond with Evangeline, Raelyn's six-year-old daughter. Gemma soon learns that Raelyn didn't just leave behind a daughter, though. She also left a stack of secrets so high that Gemma fears she never knew her best friend at all. She's so desperate to find out the truth that she may get more than she bargained for. After all, you can't un-ring a bell. BOOK ONE IN THE RAE OF LIGHT SERIES. Copyright © 2019 Briana Eliza. All rights reserved. 50k - 60k words Awards: 2019 Summer Zodiac Awards - 2nd Place ⭐️ 2019 Talent Awards - 1st Place ⭐️ 2020 Winter Rose Awards - Honorable Mentions 2020 Belle Amé Awards - Runner Up

"I trusted you Xavier. You said you'll never leave. You said you loved me. Like a fool I am I believed you" she said in a broken defeated voice. "Well you're right. You're a fool. How could I love you, you're a fucking child. Now get the fuck out." I harshly said. I hate myself for hurting her like this. But it's for her own good. I hope you'll forgive me kitten. •••••••••••••••••••••••• She is 20 He is 30.But that doesn't stop him . She's the definition of innocence and kindness. He's everything she's not. Well just like they say opposites attract. But unfortunately for them, there are obstacle in their way. Their past has come back to haunt them. Broken hearts, broken promises, broken trust, misunderstandings and sacrifices. Join Angel and Xavier on their journey to forever. Witness how they go against all odds for the sake of their love. A story where a young lady falls for an older man. She has never let anyone in after experiencing betrayal. But him, he just came in crushing down the walls she spent years building in a matter of months. She has let herself be vulnerable for the first time and she's happy. Unfortunately her ugly past came crashing all her happiness. The one she loves gets snatched away from her. He loves her so much. He has sworn to protect her no matter what it takes. He promised he'll never leave her. Unfortunately he had to break his promise when a threat against her life surfaces. He chose to have her hate him and alive rather than not having her at all. He had to sacrifice something and he sacrificed their love and left her. But what he didn't know was that he wasn't leaving just her. Now his goal is to gain her trust and love once again. WARNING- the book is not yet edited ,so there'll be some mistakes please forgive me but you've been warned . Otherwise enjoy sweethearts ❤️

For years, Aubrey Evergreen. Wants to investigate who killed her parents. But years after, she believed that they were killed in a car accident. Now, she was left alone in her parents' mansion along with the butler that took care of her ever since they died. Now they both are in the mystery world that is full of mystery and supernatural. She believed her Butler could be her hero. Everything she wanted was in him. But she didn't know his darkest secrets that he hid all his life. The darkest secrets that could be answers to all of her investigations. What would happen? Would this turn out to be a good thing or end up a bad thing? ~~~~~~ Aubrey: You lied to me...you lied to me...! You....you were the one that...that- ???: I saved your life. I saved you from that accident! I saved you from bleeding to death and slowly, painfully dying, and all I get in return, is you saying how much you hate me?! I saved your life, and this is how you thank me? Screaming and yelling at me?! Aubrey: Shut up! Just shut up! She yelled, tears falling endlessly and gripping her hair and pacing back and forth. Crying out loudly. Not believing him. How? Why? Just why? ???: Oh dear Aubrey...my dear Lady.... He approached her with slow steps. She froze when she felt his breath on her nape and fingers tracing her arm. His lips inches away from her ear. ???: You owe me so much. You owe me....your soul. Now you have a choice, it's either you accept me, love me, choose to be with me forever, or you suffer a painful consequence. No one will be there to save you. I won't be there...to save you. She shivered at that word. She cried out helplessly. He smirked knowing damn well she needs him. Aubrey: I will never.... ???: You don't have a choice. Would this end up well? Or bad? Aubrey's life is on the line. What will happen? Would this end up well? Or would it end up...Hell?

ONGOING AND MOVED TO AO3!! PLEASE BEAR WITH ME!! ********************************************************************************** "ɪᴛ'ꜱ ɢᴇɴɪᴜꜱ ʀɪɢʜᴛ?!" ʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇᴅ ʜɪꜱ ʜᴀɴᴅꜱ ᴏɴ ʜᴇʀ ꜱʜᴏᴜʟᴅᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʟᴇᴀɴᴇᴅ ɪɴ. "ꜱᴏ, ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ꜱᴀʏ?" "ᴏᴋᴀʏ." ********************************************************************************** UA (Universe Alteration), where instead of faking her suicide, Veronica agrees to Jason Dean's plan to destroy the school. As time goes on, Veronica is increasingly haunted by the horror of what they've done and JD's influence over her starts to overshadow every moral she once thought to uphold. Lines between good and bad blur as Veronica begins to wonder if she and Jason Dean are more alike than she thought. *************************************************************************************** TW FOR GUNS, SUICIDE, MENTION OF SUICIDE, SELF HARM, CRIME, SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS, DEATH, REFERENCE TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE, REFERENCE TO ADDICTION,DOMESTIC TERRORISM..and yea I think that's about it.. bear with me guys, I'm new to this whole "Let other people see your work" thing. Also this is mostly based off the movie, though some elements of the musical will be included...spoilers for both, obviously I made a goofy ass playlist for this fic too, listen to the lyrics and what not.. here the link 👉🏾 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0X3MF7ZGSYjf2y9Fvn4FjX?si=87186098b8dc4ab1 thanks to my bestie Leo for encouraging me..ur so awesome dude. enjoy this dumpster fire of a fic 💗

"I don't know what kind of girl you think I am Greg" I mumbled. I was not the kind of girl who slept with guys on a whim. I wanted him, but not enough to abandon all reason. He took a step toward me, ignored my narrowed eyes and wrapped his arms around me. I wriggled and tried to pull away, but he only held me tighter. His face was impossibly close to me, expression serene to my fury. I could feel him already, pressing into my stomach. Fear shot through me, but the anticipation was equal. "I know exactly what kind of girl you are Maddy... that's the problem" He said simply. His lips crashed into mine, tasting every inch of me. I wanted more than anything to pull away, leave and never mention this again.... but I couldn't do it. The feel of him naked, warm and muscular against me rendered me speechless. I couldn't explain it, but our bodies seemed to fit together somehow and the anger I'd felt just a minute ago. That firey anger at him invading my privacy was gradually merging with the previous lust from last night. Now all I felt was an all consuming need for him to touch me. ....................................................................... Maddy Reynolds' life is a mess. Her best friend's brother Greg has just died and her two best friends Mel and Dom aren't speaking to each other. She has no one to talk to about her confusing feelings towards Greg or why Mel is so distant. Then at the funeral, she becomes friends with Tom Winter by pure chance and he seems to be the only one who understands her. And yet.... even he is keeping secrets from her. The sort of secrets that have the power to change everything. Maddy now has to decide to trust him or find out the truth on her own. Things would have been a whole lot simpler if she'd chosen the latter.

"Who's there," I can't breath. I'm always looking over my shoulder ever since- I can't think about the now. I have to run but where, back to Jake? No I can't, everything is different now. He's supposed to be here to protect me, because if the got me... blood smears the pages of the passed. "Sapphire!" I hear him call. "Coal!" I reach out to touch him only for him to be yanked just out of my reach. I hear the wolves in the distance howling at the beautiful moon. I need his touch again. I need to know I'm safe. The only safe place anymore is pressed against him under the sheets. "Coal!" I call out again. ---I can hear her. She's here somewhere I know it. I can smell her sent threw the thick of the woods. "Sapphire!" I call out, but my call is lost in the night. I have to protect her. I have to save one, just one. Maybe that will be enough to clean the blood off my tainted skin. What if they get her? She'll... Change... I look up at the moon, could she not have heard my howls? Of course she did. She always did. I can hear the other wolves in the forest. Soon I too would be engulfed by the beast. Unable to control myself, unable to predict the beasts next move. Only she could tame the beast inside me. Why be afraid of the monster under the bed when you should be afraid of the one lying next to you under the sheets.--- I keep quiet in the deep dark night. Watching her waiting for her to come back to me. I wait for him to slip up just long enough for me to swoop in and take her. It's only a matter of time. I wait for him to turn into that hideous beast. The beast that only comes out in the light of the moon. The beast that feeds of the insentient. I have to find her,to make her perfect, at least that's what they tell me. They tell me she'll be perfect and she will be mine. She will be the beginning of a new ere the ere of the beast. Everyone has secrets. Everyone lies. Everyone cries. Everyone dies. 2 view points, Coal and Sapphire. Mature! All rights reserved! Thank you!

"It was a mistake..." She told her mother, folding her hands into each other. "Marrying him..." Her mother said nothing, she simply sat there as her only daughter stood across from her, on the verge of collapsing from bruised ribs and cracked shins. "Mom." She wanted to reach out, softly tap her aging mother. Though that was the restriction of her life. The binding stereotype that she was gentle and slow to anger. In reality, what wanted to explode from her ribs was a scream of an animal, and the tears of repressed rage and fear. She wanted to throw her body onto the floor, but the thought made her damaged body ache more. There was no response from her mother. The deafening silence reminded her of her own quietness as her husband shouted at her, his fists bloody. He told her that she was only a tool for his amusement and a money-whore for her indigent family. She was nothing else but a tool for both parties. And she was starting to believe him. --------------------- Sarah Johnsen's life spirals from the normal gritty resilient fight to a serene wonderland. On the outside, she's married to a kind family with untold riches, but on the inside, her husband is the devil himself. Forcefully married at 18, Sarah was forced to kill her own dreams of becoming a doctor in order to bind her poor family to the rich bastards of Glendale by marrying their youngest; Oliver Grean. Their arrangement had the ability to brew the largest timespan of misery any of them has ever known. From lost toddlers to paid staged kidnappings, the binding of the two families, the Johnsen's and the Grean's created a mixture of chaos, confusion, sorrow, fear, grief, and dangerous rage. And there seems to be no haven to escape to. Or is there? (TW: Rape, molestation, abuse, kidnapping, abandonment, swearing, murder, drug use, suicide attempts/thoughts, necrophilia, fire; READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!) !-A series of lore for the Stratford Series (first installment is "Casanova")-! [Final Version]

"Xavier, are you out of your mind? You can't hit anyone you want." I tried to pull him away from the guy. With his temper, he might send him to the hospital for quite a long time. Xavier suddenly stood up, he took my hands in his and pushed me to the wall behind me. He looked deep into my eyes. I got scared, I saw him angry before but never at me. He closed his eyes and put his head against mine. "You make me do crazy things. I'm not letting you talk to any guy from now on. I know I promised that I'll behave, but I can't see you talk or laugh with any guy." How can he be possessive over our juniors? ****************** Hello. I'm Anastasia. You can call me Anna. I'm a normal school girl. Like other kids of my age, I also don't like school. But my reason is different from them. I get bullied every day. It is the same at home also. My cousins bully me. My uncle and aunt only listen to their children. I get punished for their mistakes too. But suddenly one by one all of this bullying stopped. I don't know the reason, but from the moment I started spending time with this new guy who transferred to our school. Everything bad had stopped. *************** Hey. I'm Xavier. I hate school, but I still go there so I can entertain myself. I got expelled from 9 schools already. You see, I can't tolerate ill-mannered people and in school, you can find a bunch of them. So it is fun to make them see their place. In this new school, I found a girl. She was so fragile and oblivious of her beauty. She made me feel warm. So I followed her. I followed her literally everywhere. **************** Hello, lovelies. Hope you like the story.