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Faking Confidence

OwnKindOfFamous

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Reads 385
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Parts 10
Time 47m

OwnKindOfFamous

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You know that feeling where anxiety claws at your throat and suddenly you can't breathe? You try to suck in even just a little bit of air but it never makes it past the lump in your throat? 

Well that's the feeling I get when Oliver Pickett looks at me. And I mean really looks at me.

Just his stare leaves me incapable of performing basic functions. I can't move, I can't talk, all I can do is stare back into his beautiful hazel eyes. 

Because in that moment he's all I see, all I think about, all I want. And that scares me. 

I never planned on falling in love, but then again love is never planned. It's something that happens suddenly with no warning. One day you just wake up and know. And it hits you like a brick in the face.

Sometimes my fight or flight system goes into overdrive and I just want to run. But he holds me back, and teaches me how to fight. Because in this world you have to fight for things. And that takes just a little bit of confidence.


*I don't own the picture from the cover I just found it on the Internet and put some words on it*.All Rights Reserved

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Mason's Angel (Completed) by Yellow1017

"What's your problem?" He asks darkly. "What's your problem?" I spit back. "Why do you keep following me?" He hisses. "I don't follow you!" I shout back. "Then how come where ever I go you end up going or being there?" He questions in a raised voice. "Its a coincidence." I say back in the same tone. He then moves forward towards me, and I take a step back but my back hits the brick wall. He puts his arms up his palms against the wall caging me in looking into my eyes. I won't look at him though, I look to the ground scared. "Just leave me alone...stay away." He whispers in my ear before he walks away to his car with his head down. -- When Dylan accidentally bumps into Mason in school things change. Dylan isn't scared away from him, or the rumors about him. She wonders about him, and what is up with him. When Mason decides Dylan needs to stay away from him he can't seem to keep it that way. He has a weird need to protect her... From everything. Which means finding out about her past... Will he soften up around her, or keep is bad boy dangerous ways? What happened when his fighting life comes into his normal life? What will happen when they find out about Dylan? Will Mason be able to keep her safe? Or will his boss find a way to keep him fighting?

The Long Run (BoyxBoy-teacher/student) *Completed* by Mayes_Vs_Universe

Reign, a high school heart-breaker has never felt any affection towards anyone he dated. He thought there was something wrong with him until his best friends Drew and Floyd suggested that he could be gay. He's scared to accept that though, after all his dad's a major homophobe. Being raised from a rich household and parents that are hardly there make it difficult for Reign to have a normal family. They just had a child so they had someone to give their wealth to when they died and Reign knows it. He knows that he can't continue to become a famous runner like he hoped for. His dad already has everything planned out for him right up to his death bed. Not to mention the completely white straight fantasy wedding. What makes it worse is that he falls head over heels for no one other than his teacher. It couldn't be the boy down the street, or the nerd? No, it had to be his maths teacher. The one that's strictly off limits. Like Reign ever let something like that stop him though. Will Reign rule this whole experience out of a crush or will he learn to live, fight, love and accept who he really is?

Finding Purpose (+18) ✔️ by ZaynismRules

***this book contains suicidal thoughts and tendencies, may not be appropriate for younger audiences*** In which she looks for the purpose of life. Lily Carter's parents died in a car crash leaving her and Laura, girl was depressed long before her parents passed away and with all the problems turning up now, Lily felt more miserable - if that's even possible. With her journey to look for life's purpose and grab the small pinch of HOPE - which is ironically her second name -, will she finally snap at the pressure and finally end it all? or will a small light lit her darkened world of grief and loneliness? * "So you know. The little goth girl who gets bullied is indeed a mess. There's this mess in her head that eats her alive everyday isn't it? What to do now Kaden? Tell the whole neighborhood and recieve an award for taking out a crazy in this world?" I spit like vomit. His eyes warmed up as I finished, "Lily. It isn't like that" "What is it then? People stopped caring... they gave up, why aren't you?" I fought my tears. "Because I feel the need to care. Did Leigh hurt you? Did she hit you?" he finally noticed the unusual redness of my cheek. I don't like the way he told me he needed to care for me. I felt like an obligation, a responsibility that he is carrying and carrying leads to getting tired and when people gets tired, they give up. I don't want them to give up on me. But they will, so it's good not to make them care for me in the first place. "I never needed anyone. I stopped needing anyone before, why start now?" I uttered the words again. Why? There is nothing to fight for. No mama. No papa. No sister to love me. No one. So why would I waste my life and the time of others to fix what is already broken - and someone who doesn't want to be fixed? If I may add. Maybe I gave up. No, scratch that. I gave up a long time ago - when my parents died, my hope and purpose went away with them.

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But I Can't Lose Her by Kykyleigh17

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Mason's Angel (Completed)

"What's your problem?" He asks darkly. "What's your problem?" I spit back. "Why do you keep following me?" He hisses. "I don't follow you!" I shout back. "Then how come where ever I go you end up going or being there?" He questions in a raised voice. "Its a coincidence." I say back in the same tone. He then moves forward towards me, and I take a step back but my back hits the brick wall. He puts his arms up his palms against the wall caging me in looking into my eyes. I won't look at him though, I look to the ground scared. "Just leave me alone...stay away." He whispers in my ear before he walks away to his car with his head down. -- When Dylan accidentally bumps into Mason in school things change. Dylan isn't scared away from him, or the rumors about him. She wonders about him, and what is up with him. When Mason decides Dylan needs to stay away from him he can't seem to keep it that way. He has a weird need to protect her... From everything. Which means finding out about her past... Will he soften up around her, or keep is bad boy dangerous ways? What happened when his fighting life comes into his normal life? What will happen when they find out about Dylan? Will Mason be able to keep her safe? Or will his boss find a way to keep him fighting?