The Love Boat Diner
- Reads 714
- Mga Boto 31
- Mga Parte 2
"Welcome to The Love Boat Diner, a place where the midnight hour stretches until morning and ‘Mickey’s burger’ can cure even the most vicious of heartbreaks. Sit in a booth, order a milkshake and watch the world come alive. Life may be harsh and the weather may be cold - but inside, the coffee is piping hot and a slice of pie is never too far away..."
The Love Boat Diner has been Ophelia ‘Phee’ Mather’s haven for as long as she can remember. So, it seems like a good place as any for Phee to sit single and alone on Valentine’s Day. In the midst of a persistent bout of insomnia and a pair of cupcake pyjama pants, she sits in her booth with a vanilla milkshake, watching the world go by.
It is here on this night (in booth number seven, to be exact), that Phee watches Johnny and Celeste fall in love.
This is a love story.
It just isn’t hers.
[Valentine's Day Short Story/Contest Entry]
All Rights Reserved
#989
diner
Sumali sa pinakamalaking komunidad ng pagkukuwentoMakakuha ng personalized na mga rekomendasyon ng kuwento, i-save ang iyong mga paborito sa iyong library, at magkomento at bumoto para lumago ang iyong komunidad.
Magugustuhan mo rin ang
Short Words, Big Love
My collection of mini stories with a big dose of all kinds of love. Valentine's Kitchen: Alex fares a winter storm with Dean to keep the soup kitchen open. Movies: Liam sees his ex-girlfriend at the movies, and grabs the chance he missed. Ice Pop Kisses: The mother of the bride comforts a heartbroken best man and learns how he fell in love for her daughter on a summer day. Angel's Candy: Angel struggles to keep his fame and his love interest in his employee hidden, while a pesky reporter digs up his past. Pinning Home: Amy gets to know Alejandro and learns to love his island through Pinterest posts. Creative Silence: Jake goes on a night out to a club and to win a bet isn't allowed to use sign language to communicate. Secret Knight: Francois' movie star dream got crushed, but nowadays the closest he's gotten to it is playing the Fire Knight in a theme park. Metro Girl: Peter's metro commute is only bearable due to the girl he sees daily but who doesn't seem to know he exists. Red: Finn is cursed, and on Halloween his skin turns red, but it has never stopped him from enjoying the wickedest day of the year. Wrestling: Ryan returns to the ring after his father's funeral and gets a romantic story line with his love interest. Fortune Cookie: The words in a fortune cookie paper strip come to live as an omen of heartbreak and new love. Wedding Ring: Jen encounters her old high school love and both still wear their wedding rings, but for different reasons. Silas Needs to Sleep: After an indulgent night of candy, a mother finds a caring guest guarding her baby, only not the living kind. Book: A young man finds a writing mentor and a maternal figure while trying to publish a book. Basketball Banquet: A manager of a basketball team, must face the press to clarify the rumors about a player he loves like a son.Kumpleto
Highway Kismet
"Do you ever give being insufferable a rest? Don't you get tired of annoying me and then acting smug about it?" Mitchell annoyed asked the infuriating girl sitting across him. "Why do you always find a fault with everything I say or do? Could it be that I'm the first girl that isn't flustered around the infamous Mitchell Clarke?" Mila raised a brow. Mitchell, once again annoyed with the girl who's been taunting and teasing him for way too long abruptly stood up from his chair and made his way across the table to where she was seated, he placed one hand on the table and the other on the headrest of her chair and hovered over her, his face a mere centimeter away from hers. "Ooh turn on the air-conditioner things are about to get H.O.T - hot." Mila remarked as she fanned herself. "Don't act invincible, I see you when I'm not looking, you're dying for me." He whispered Mila shifted up in her seat and moved closer to him, she looked in his eyes and challenged, "If you're man enough, out that theory to the test and kiss me." Mitchell and Mila are complete opposites. They meet once on a very drunken which results in an attempted one night stand gone bad. Thereafter, they swear to forget it and each other. Fate however brings them together when their best friends take a decision to get married in Vegas. In order to stop them, Mila and Mitch reluctantly embark on a road trip which includes crazy shenanigans, pointless fights, awkward moments, and a whole lot of teasing which rises the sexual tension between these two nemeses. What happens when two nemeses have to spend seven long days together in the name of friendship? After literally pulling each other's hair, will they survive one week in a car and shared hotel rooms? Or will the saying 'A fine line between love and hatred' once again be proved?Kumpleto
#Me too... I'm a waitress on cruise ships
Miami, Hawaii, Bahamas, Bora-Bora... "There must be a way to visit all these exquisite places besides in my dreams", thought Ann obsessively, during her last year of college. And indeed, she finally found one, despite her meager means, being born in a modest family, in a former communist country. 22 years old, with the college graduation out of the way, she applied for a job on cruise ships, halfway across the globe, in the sunny, exotic Caribbean Sea. It was just a waitressing job for which she had to leave everything behind... her family, her friends, her entire way of life up until then. Even her higher education was useless in this new endeavor of her life, but what else was there? Her wish was to travel, to see the world, to experience new cultures and being poor was not going to stop her. Little did she know about how excruciating would be to adjust to the life onboard, as part of a crew made of 1000 people from 77 different countries. 77 different cultures, traditions and customs, trying to make it work while sharing tiny, petty living quarters, in a prison like décor, located under the sea level, while working around the clock to create a dream vacation for thousands of rich, spoiled passengers. Shortly, the notion of cultural differences turned into a cultural abyss, but Ann finally discovered that the only two things uniting people across the globe are love and danger.Kumpleto
Simmer & Stir
SEQUEL TO - ESPRESSOLY FOR YOU; a one shot. Daisy, twenty-two and a culinary graduate was set to crack her first interview and impress the head chef but when asked to meet the restaurant manager for a final word, things took a turn into the surprise lane. Unaware of his identity, her world stopped spinning on its axis when she discovered it to be her crush since past four years. Philip's face was the reminder of her affection and obsession with the veteran who came to her café and stole her heart when she was barely eighteen. Although young Daisy couldn't pacify the intricate ridges of her heart from yearning for the man, the confident girl of today knew well, not to succumb. She may have let Philip go long ago, her determination to make him stay this time was chiseled in rock. But the only problem, Philip was unaware of Daisy's emotional rollercoaster and sadly, visually impaired to see what her aching heart put to display every time he even looked at her. Follow Daisy's journey and the life path she choose, acknowledging her fears and accepting her rogue feelings. ~ ✨Featured- Stories Undiscovered ✨ FoodKart TRIGGER - The story is a slow burner romance, with lots of cooking and food references. It may trigger late night cravings. People trying to control their rogue eating habits or on diet are advised to tread cautiously.Kumpleto![So, This is love [Completed- On Hold] | #Wattys2016](https://img.wattpad.com/cover/79118073-256-k300258.jpg)
So, This is love [Completed- On Hold] | #Wattys2016
A drop-dead gorgeous business man encountered a typical home-and-office girl in an unusual way. The girl responded to a stranger's call and found herself meeting up with the guy she never thought would spiced up her normal life. Though fate must be joking on them at their first attempt to meet each other.. When will they finally meet? © 2016 Ysabelle Monte ************************************* Cover photo: Disclaimer! I don't own the picture. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MfGuUxDJUJw/Uat6T9wu35I/AAAAAAAABLE/Y52UGN0trZ4/s640/tumblr_mmkiqqotQj1s9tr7co1_500.png Rank #666 General Fiction 28/8/2016 God bless everyone! :-)Kumpleto
Go Against Destiny ✓
★𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐘𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐊/𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 - 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀★ Neither of them had total confidence in destiny. Not even when they started to see the invisible red strings that bound people to their soul mates. Not especially when they learned who the other person was at the end of their own thread. University educators, Sky De Vera and JP Nieves, were connected soul mates, but they refused to be controlled by fate. In a battle between chance and choice, would this pair be able to break away from their red string? Or would they fall into destiny's trap that they were desperately trying to avoid? A standalone spin-off of Their Parallel Universe, set six years back. Mature contents: - depiction of child neglect and psychological child abuse in a few flashbacks. - a bit of suggestive scenes and risque language on the last chapter. No smut and nothing sexually explicit. * Other than those, the whole story is pretty lighthearted. 2024 AMBY AWARD Top Pick for Romance Novellas Padauk Mini Awards Second Place - Best Characters Rose Awards 2023 Third Place - Best Blurb 7x Featured: @SpeculativeFiction (December 2023) @Romance (January 2024) @StoriesUndiscovered (March 2024) @NARomance (April 2024) @APIFantasy (June 2024) @mythandlegend (June 2024) @Fantasy (June 2024)Kumpleto
Finding Mr Right ✔️
"Here." He places the ball in my hands. "Let's try a different approach." He stands right behind me as my heart races. "W-what are you doing?" I ask, cursing myself for stuttering. "Teaching you." He breathes at the back of my ear making me stiffen. ~~~~~ Diana is 23, outgoing, friendly, smart and everything any normal girl would be. Her family and best friend, Mia, worry about her love life but she doesn't really care. Would she be prepared when not one but two guys walk into her life? Follow Dianna through the forming of what could be a horrible or amazing adulthood especially when you throw in two hotties, finding Mr right definitely won't be easy. With Love, Chimyxoxo.Kumpleto
Out Late Sipping Milkshakes || ✔️
What should I feel right now? Heartbroken, anger, betrayal? Why couldn't life be easier? I looked up, a bright sign greeted me. Mom and Pop's Milkshake Shoppe... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After witnessing her boyfriend making out with another girl, Michelle Wong stumbles into a quaint cafe, never intending to be gulping down milkshakes with a complete, but handsome, stranger. Scott Chazan sat at a stool, silently drinking his milkshake, not knowing that the girl that walks through the door would someday know everything about his secluded little self. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Book 1 of the Sweet Talk Series ~HIGHEST RANKING: #702 in Short Story~Kumpleto
✔️ | 🎄 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓 (Second Chance Series)
𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 on @Romance @YARomance @ContLit profile @TeenFiction 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐒 Coming of age, winter romance, workplace, first love 𝐖𝐎𝐍 Contemporary Lit Romantics Award They had exchanged lingering glances, but nothing transpired until one night over a long shift at work, an innocent glass of water, and a dead car battery. Jim Garrett is reserved, kind, and harboring a bit of trauma from the year prior. Caroline Crabtree is fun-loving and the kind of girl you notice in the hallway. Caroline sparkles as she floats through a room on an imaginary breeze, holding Jim's heart on a string wherever she goes. Jim is wholly and irrevocably in love with her. He just has to talk to her first to make sure. This short story prequel to the Second Chance Series is the journey of how Jim and Caroline fell in love: late night phone calls, holiday traditions, and ditching class to kiss in the custodial closet.Kumpleto
If Love Could Be The Cure We Need - A MakoHaru Medical AU
When Haruka gets diagnosed with a terminal disease, he gets send off to a boarding school for sick teenagers. All he wants is to get his normal life back. But then he meets Makoto and his group of friends. They're just like Haruka - sick and dying - but they still see the good in everything. They teach Haruka the ways of living with dying through troublemaking and weirdness. Because of them, Haruka quickly realizes that friendship and love is a cure better than any vaccine known to mankind.Kumpleto
My collection of mini stories with a big dose of all kinds of love. Valentine's Kitchen: Alex fares a winter storm with Dean to keep the soup kitchen open. Movies: Liam sees his ex-girlfriend at the movies, and grabs the chance he missed. Ice Pop Kisses: The mother of the bride comforts a heartbroken best man and learns how he fell in love for her daughter on a summer day. Angel's Candy: Angel struggles to keep his fame and his love interest in his employee hidden, while a pesky reporter digs up his past. Pinning Home: Amy gets to know Alejandro and learns to love his island through Pinterest posts. Creative Silence: Jake goes on a night out to a club and to win a bet isn't allowed to use sign language to communicate. Secret Knight: Francois' movie star dream got crushed, but nowadays the closest he's gotten to it is playing the Fire Knight in a theme park. Metro Girl: Peter's metro commute is only bearable due to the girl he sees daily but who doesn't seem to know he exists. Red: Finn is cursed, and on Halloween his skin turns red, but it has never stopped him from enjoying the wickedest day of the year. Wrestling: Ryan returns to the ring after his father's funeral and gets a romantic story line with his love interest. Fortune Cookie: The words in a fortune cookie paper strip come to live as an omen of heartbreak and new love. Wedding Ring: Jen encounters her old high school love and both still wear their wedding rings, but for different reasons. Silas Needs to Sleep: After an indulgent night of candy, a mother finds a caring guest guarding her baby, only not the living kind. Book: A young man finds a writing mentor and a maternal figure while trying to publish a book. Basketball Banquet: A manager of a basketball team, must face the press to clarify the rumors about a player he loves like a son.
Karagdagang detalyeMga Alituntunin ng Nilalaman