Already Gone

Shortlisted for Wattys 2024! Ready for a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance in the afterlife? 🔥 ---Each chapter includes my original illustrations. *** Welcome to the Dorm. Not a college dorm-a cosmic waiting room for dead people. We're all stuck between life and what comes after, chasing one thing: a second chance. Me? I just want my old life back-my perfect future, my perfect boyfriend. The problem? The infuriating boy they matched me with as my soulmate. And maybe... realizing none of it was ever that perfect to begin with.

"Forever" he whispered. "You can't have forever with me." I cried. ___________ She has stage four of cancer and only has a couple of months left and doesn't tell no one but her family and he falls in love with her. #visualstory #wattys2016 All rights reserved to @_stylingilinsky_ Cover credit: @XGilinskysHoeX

Love is a difficult thing to grasp, sure everyone knows that. But what about feelings, emotions, the ironic stuff that goes into love. Pretty complicated if you ask me. •| a love story told in many love stories |• All rights reserved 2016 ©hayleybouldin Cover art by Jen Corace

Published Story! Book 1 out now at www.AuthoredbyTejav.com Josie Carter is seventeen and already tired of life. Grieving, guarded, and forced to grow up too fast, she's used to surviving, not living. Keeping her head down is the only way she knows how to stay safe. But everything shifts when a new environment forces her out of her comfort zone and into the path of new faces, new feelings, and hard truths she can't outrun. When tension, trauma, and trust collide, Josie must figure out how to hold herself together before everything around her falls apart. Some wounds don't fade. Some love stories don't come easy. But sometimes, what breaks you also builds you. Silas Remington is everything Josie isn't: rich and unapologetically complicated. But beyond what she and others assume, there's chaos beneath the surface and bruises he doesn't show. Their lives collide in ways neither expects, and what begins as animosity slowly unravels into something deeper-something neither of them can explain, yet both of them feel. In a world where nothing is promised, they discover what it means to be enough-for themselves, and for each other.

Life is made of a million tiny choices. Some choices are minute. Some change the course of time. The day of his first encounter he was at this lowest. The day of their second encounter, she learned how to smile. All of their encounters have led them to a point, neither of them thought possible. Were they all by chance? Or by fate's grand design? {Explicit adult scenes are throughout. Please read responsibly}

"ᴀ ᴋɪꜱꜱ ꜰᴏʀ ᴀ ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ?" 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱... "𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚, 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫..𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄." 𝗜 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝘆𝗲𝘀. "𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬, 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐢" 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲. 𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭... 𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬... 𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞...

[Featured by wattpad romance, teen fiction, young adult and psychologicalnovel] Joy Jones was a seventeen-year-old kind and optimistic girl working in her grandpa's flower shop, but she had a secret. She was suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and wanted nothing, but to die peacefully. That was until Logan Kellerman, a young man with suicidal tendencies came storming into her life and stole roses from her grandpa's flower shop. Instead of running away with what he came for, he found himself falling deeper and deeper into her as she made his heart skip in delight, for she was, in her own words, a little bit of Joy. * * * from some of my readers of this book, thanks❤- ❝I LOVE YOUR STORY OKAY. THIS STORY AND YOUR WRITING- IT GIVES ME HOPE YOU KNOW.❞ - aimawrites ❝This is so different than so many stereotypical stories on here and i'm so glad i read it.❞ -lepus_leporis ❝They're both so poetic and beautiful and perfect for each other. GAHHhh I love them.❞ - alycecaswell ❝The way she vividly describes the world makes me so happy. Heat keeps rushing to my cheeks in pure euphoric joy. This book is making me so grateful for everything around me and I never want it to end.❞ - nylammeeyn [highest rank: 7 in sad] [cover by soulanatomy]

Where she encounters darkness, she will also find light. (extended summary inside) #30 in comingofage (7.29.18)

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