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Flawed Pretense

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Time 9h 21m

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Meet Emily Russell. She's sarcastic, smart, gorgeous and friendly.      

Meet her best friend Chris Dells. She's hilarious, loud, pretty, and not so friendly.      

Together they can be trouble. They've known each other their whole lives and no one can stop them from having fun. Well, that's what they think.     

Enter Ian Ashford. He's a big egotistical jerk, man-whore, doesn't believe in love, but most of all, plays with girls' hearts. And maybe, just maybe, guys' hearts too.      

Throw in light hearted and even some heated arguments, broken hearts, and jealousy, and you have yourself a pleasant sundae with an added cherry on top.     

But what happens when everyone finds out about the facade you have been putting up, and you realize your pretense isn't as flawless as you had originally thought?     

••••  

Accompany Emily in a thing called her life, as she desperately tries to forget her past and thinks she can run away at a moment's notice.  But in reality, everything reminds Emily of her past, and it starts to look ugly for her.

***There's light mystery, but it's there. :)All Rights Reserved

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CodeRed by muskank123

"Guys, I got another note," I say as I sit down at lunch. Vanessa and Xander were here but Hazel was missing. "Where's Hazel?" I question, eyeing her empty seat. "Out with Adam today, it's Friday," Xander says whilst I munch on my sandwich. "Did you say you got another note?" He asks and I hold my finger up and try to swallow my food as quickly I can so I can speak again. "Yeah, this one says, 'You look so beautiful in blue, I wish I could say this in person,' I really want to know who's playing this prank," I say and my eyes fall to the only prankster in Waterstone Academy, Sebastein. "I don't think it is Sebastien, he loves attention and this doesn't scream attention," Vanessa says as my eyes land on him. But my eyes move from Sebastien quickly to the hottest man in Waterstone, Vincent. He has been bugging me for a week, trying to talk to me and he even asked me to come to Logan's party on the weekend. My eyes must have been drilling holes into his face because he turns in my directions. I quickly turn back to Xander and Vanessa who were talking about their Art projects. "Okay, so if not Sebastien then who?" I voice my thoughts out loud. "Maybe you have a secret admirer," Xander says in all seriousness and I burst out laughing. My laugh attracts some attention because 1) it was loud, 2) I snorted. "Yeah right," I say once I sober up. *** A secret admirer. Everyone wishes they had one but not Amara. Her secret admirer has been torturing her ex-bullies and even though that's what she wanted before, now all she wants is for it to stop. She doesn't want anyone getting hurt because of her, she knows how that feels and she doesn't wish that on anyone. A hot boy and a secret admirer, Amara needs to figure out who her secret admirer before someone gets seriously hurt or even worse, killed.

Risking It by xpurplexpanda

Years after her parent's died in a mysterious house fire, Cassandra Ricci just isn't the same. Constantly throwing her heart out there and once it finally shatters, she puts her love life on pause. And when her new foster family is nothing compared to her old one, she wishes she was dead instead of her parents . To get away from both their troubled lives, Cassandra and her best friend Christopher go on vacation to try to forget all their problems. Their idea of a dream vacation drastically becomes a nightmare when they both get kidnapped. Just when Cassandra thinks her parent's death was a thing of the past, she better think again. Someone knows the truth, but just why did he kidnap them? And when the kidnapper has an insanely hot brother, can she stay away? Will Cassandra open up her heart once again to someone who is totally capable of breaking it? Just how far is Cassandra willing to go before she realizes she's risking it? ** NOT a Selena Gomez fan fiction whatsoever.** *~*~*~*~*~* Copyright 2015 xpurplexpanda. All Rights Reserved.

3.1 | What we Fake by Evelynfrost23

❝I was crazy in love, and love makes you do crazy things.❞ "So, does that mean if I-if I kissed you tonight, you wouldn't feel a thing?" Emily barely reacted, focused on trimming her nails, but his question jolted her enough that she almost nicked herself. Without looking up, she replied, "No." Then, with a sharp breath and a smile, she met his eyes. "Absolutely not." ~*~ Liam Wyatt never had the life of an ordinary boy. Between his absent parents, a wildly popular twin, and an even more famous best friend, he always felt like the one who had to keep everything in order-even when nothing was. But despite all of that, he loved his life for what it was, imperfections and all. There was just one thing he wished he could change: the way his heart raced every time he saw Emily, his best friend, look at her girlfriend. He wished, late at night when no one was around to notice, that she would one day look at him that way. But Liam wasn't selfish-her happiness always came first, even if it meant pushing his own feelings aside. What We Fake explores the tender and raw complexities of unrequited love, self-identity, and the things we hide from the world-and from ourselves. In a world where we think we know ourselves best, sometimes, we're the ones wearing the best disguise.

Sentiments by rororowyoboat

All Grace Christopher wanted was to be normal. To feel again. She doesn't quite remember how it happened. One day she was your typical girl- popular with a reasonably good social life and loads of friends. The next day.. she was all alone. And she had never felt this alone before. Suddenly she had no friends at all. Maybe that's when her feelings faded. She turned more or less into a machine. Flash forward to when Ethan Smith- one of the jocks with a 'reasonably good' social life thinks Grace wants to die when she's dangling off the roof. She lets him in. After such a long time she finally let someone in- because he's too persistent and stubborn not to have let himself in. Will he be the one that will make Grace feel again? Will Grace find what she's been unconsciously searching for her entire life- peace? ...... Ethan didn't know he was hurting until he met her, until he talked to her. He chased after her, for a friendship, wanting to heal her, but she might be his cure.

Your What Was Missing by BrittneyLynn135

Emily Nass is trying to get her life together with her last year of college coming to an end along with trying to figure out and fix her marriage to Jackson James. Jackson James is a very famous business man with everything he needs but what he doesn't have is something he really wants. When a mystery man named Parker picks her up off a dress store floor it changes everything for her. Everything she thought she knows, well what she thought she knew. He brings everything that's been hidden to life. Flipping her whole life upside down. When things take a turn for the worse and she almost loses everything including herself, will he be the one to save her again or be the one that ruins her for good? September 2020

Perception and Deception by andreahintz1

Felix Jaynes is a special agent for the Real Life Immersion Program (also known as RLIP). A few months ago, she had a traumatic experience that caused her to go from a confident agent who was a phenomenal expert in her field, to suddenly doubting her career. She has recently been sent to an extremely rural town called Toselville. Her mission: find the middle aged son of two weapons designers who created blueprints for the United States government. As time goes on, she befriends Ashton Mathis, the owner of the only grocery shop in town, and his best friend/employee. RLIP agents have partners who talk to them through their small earpieces that cannot be seen. These agents are not allowed to see their partners or even know their names. Felix has had many partners who are generally cold and over-professional. But Felix has been assigned to Wolf, an older gentleman who becomes a sort of wise father figure to her. After going with Ashton and his friends to the town bowling alley, Felix finds that she is starting to get into a clique of her own. Ashton is there to hopefully win Felix's heart, and Felix is there strictly on business, hoping to get information for her case...or so she keeps telling herself. Against Wolf's initial words of wisdom, Felix finds herself thinking about Ashton and accepts his invitation to go out on a date. But Felix accidentally blows her cover, and soon, Ashton is attacked. Felix was able to save him once, but now her enemies will stop at nothing to get to them. Felix is reassigned to a new mission...witness protection for Ashton and herself. Their budding romantic relationship comes to a sharp halt as they now have to focus on working together to survive. They can run, but they know their enemies are never far behind. Their only option to save themselves is to solve this case. And it is not going to be easy.

Fᴏʀ Hɪꜱ Sᴀᴋᴇ | ✔ by lily97000

Emily Willows longs for passion, but only with the man of her dreams: the brilliant and dashing Edward Jones. If only her oblivious, dreaming neighbour can stop with all his gentlemanly-ness and just pin her into the nearest solid obstacle available. And then, perhaps encircle her whimpering body into the solid rippling confines of his warmth to show her the greatest pleasure of being alive and breathing, and moaning beneath his- But no, he would not. He could not-he would not even want to. As they've been best friends for, well- ever. And life as Emily knows was already over when the fates showed her the blandest stars in the already sinking cargo of her unrequited love life- by producing the gorgeous product of her gender, as opposed to her own mediocre Tomboy self, the one who'd bring shame to even the finest cream of their species. Lara Williams. It was hard to pretend not to predict what happened after she crossed paths with Edward and yet even harder to pretend that the man of hot blood, desires and virility such as him would not succumb to her charms, and even go as far as to fall in love with her. While it was no secret Emily would rather run away than to stay by Edward's side as a supportive friend as he sees her to be, or rather expects her to be, it becomes extremely challenging for her when he provides her to bear the responsibility of their friendship by asking her the biggest favour he could ever ask. The one favour she was sure no friend would ever ask their own. The one she was sure to lose herself to. The one she knew she shouldn't say yes to. But it would indeed be the one to make her crazy all the way. Oh, dammit, all to hell. __ [ 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 ] ➵𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 "𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞" 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲'𝐬 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗, 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐇

The Vintage Style by OctaviaJ41

We all wish for a happy ending in a life full of obstacles. Same was with Autumn. Autumn is the daughter of a very rich family in the entire English nation. She is the most happiest person you'll ever have a fortune of meeting. Unlike her name, she is like a spring full of adventure and love. But it is totally opposite in the case of Brooks. Brooks is the son of a very well known attorney generals. But it was contrary to the appearance. He has faced a lot at a very young age because of which he has lost all his interest in life. However, Autumn has a stalker, her closed one. Who fells madly in love with her. He is intelligent enough to plan a trap, so that he can have her. Unaware of the whole situation she fells in that trap, a beautiful trap which can never be escaped, even we get trapped in it even if we don't want to. Even the most ruthless person gets trap in it. And the trap is the LOVE WEB. Which changed her life completely. Just when we thought we have it all figured out, the ending takes an unexpected turn. Will Autumn be able to escape that trap? Will the stalker get the love of his life? What will happen to Brooks? We have always heard that love is the dangerous poison on can have the fortune of having. Will this poison safe them? Or will it destroy everything in their life?

Hearts Within by PhoenixYing

"Emily, about what you're doing," he started, his tone somewhat stern. "This sneaky journalist approach, digging into my past, isn't going to get you anywhere." Emily looked taken aback by his harsh tone and quietly replied. "I'm just doing my job, Mr Carrington." "Your job is, to tell the truth, right?" he asked, leaning closer. "Then how about this - why don't you talk to me directly about what you want to know instead of interrogating my friends?" Taken aback by his directness, Emily blinked at him, her surprise visible in her wide eyes. Alex watched as she quickly regained her composure, her professional facade falling into place. Her lips curled into a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes. "Alright, Mr Carrington. I'll take you up on that offer." He nodded, satisfied with her response. He downed the rest of his drink, feeling a sense of relief now that he had taken control of the situation. "Good. I look forward to it." 😊😊😊 Meet Amy Turner, a spirited detective who's all about justice and independence. And Alexander "Alex" Carrington, a millionaire tycoon with a heart of gold and a shadowed past. When their paths cross, sparks fly! 💥 Prepare for fancy galas, thrilling adventures, heartwarming romance, and nail-biting twists. Along the way, friendships bloom, old wounds reopen, and dangerous secrets are uncovered. Will they find the truth together? Can love conquer all? Join Amy and Alex on this exciting journey, filled with laughter 😄, tears 😢, and endless surprises. 🎉! Buckle up, and let's dive into a story that promises to be a fun-filled ride! 🎢 Phoenix Ying

How to Heal a Broken Heart (Explicit Content) by JackieMosley3

Wynter McEwan had the perfect life. Her fabulous lifestyle was handed to her on a silver platter. It was all because of her rich husband Aiden. She's dedicated her whole life to him. The only man she's ever been with sexually and romantically. Wynter world turns upside down when she discover she has an illness and her loving husband is to blame. He's been secretly having an affair and a sex addiction she never knew Aiden had. Now she has lost all her trust in men because of Aiden's infidelity. Every man that tries to get close to her she pushes them away. Elleah Hofner is an overnight R. N. She has a son named Avery and a fiancé name Rodney Terry. Life with Rodney has never been easy but Elleah didn't want to raise Avery without both parents in the home so, occasionally she dealt with Rodney violent behavior just to keep them together. One day things change when Elleah discover her woman beating fiancé is also cheating . She's now fed up with Rodney malicious ways and decide to leave. Things tragically goes wrong and Elleah is force into depression. Rodney messes her mind up so badly, she builds up a wall so high that no man can break down. Elle Hofner is the twin sister of Elleah. She's consider the "big" twin. She's a fashion designer for thick girls. She travel back and forth from Nashville to New York monthly to do shows and other projects. Elle is constantly on the go, so any time she gets to spend with her boyfriend Kingston Jarrett, she cherish every moment. Things go haywire when she return home early and surprise him. But, Kingston has a surprise in-stored for Elle that makes her never want to be with any man again. All three women decide to move in with each other to help one another get over their devastating break ups. Three men that they never expected to want them come and show them the way they suppose to be loved. The three men try to heal their broken hearts but will they allow themselves to be loved again after every they have been throug

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CodeRed

"Guys, I got another note," I say as I sit down at lunch. Vanessa and Xander were here but Hazel was missing. "Where's Hazel?" I question, eyeing her empty seat. "Out with Adam today, it's Friday," Xander says whilst I munch on my sandwich. "Did you say you got another note?" He asks and I hold my finger up and try to swallow my food as quickly I can so I can speak again. "Yeah, this one says, 'You look so beautiful in blue, I wish I could say this in person,' I really want to know who's playing this prank," I say and my eyes fall to the only prankster in Waterstone Academy, Sebastein. "I don't think it is Sebastien, he loves attention and this doesn't scream attention," Vanessa says as my eyes land on him. But my eyes move from Sebastien quickly to the hottest man in Waterstone, Vincent. He has been bugging me for a week, trying to talk to me and he even asked me to come to Logan's party on the weekend. My eyes must have been drilling holes into his face because he turns in my directions. I quickly turn back to Xander and Vanessa who were talking about their Art projects. "Okay, so if not Sebastien then who?" I voice my thoughts out loud. "Maybe you have a secret admirer," Xander says in all seriousness and I burst out laughing. My laugh attracts some attention because 1) it was loud, 2) I snorted. "Yeah right," I say once I sober up. *** A secret admirer. Everyone wishes they had one but not Amara. Her secret admirer has been torturing her ex-bullies and even though that's what she wanted before, now all she wants is for it to stop. She doesn't want anyone getting hurt because of her, she knows how that feels and she doesn't wish that on anyone. A hot boy and a secret admirer, Amara needs to figure out who her secret admirer before someone gets seriously hurt or even worse, killed.