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How Did We Get Here? ✔️

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Reads 83,312
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Parts 34
Time 1h 26m

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Everyone thought Sky and Callen would be the annoying couple who would get the fairytale "Happy ever after" ending. They met and fell helplessly in love their second year of college, but even they couldn't prepare themselves for what life really had in store for them.

They never would have imagined they'd be sitting around a table, about to sign divorce papers. Especially Sky, who still holds on to the last bit of hope, and can't help but wonder what was the turning point that drove them here. 

Through their past and present, follow Sky and Callen's story as they come to figure out : how did we get here?

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The Girl Who Jumped by ch3rry_h34rts

I stood on the edge of the rooftop. My eyes closed and my mind free. I'm ready. Now is the time. I could feel my breath quickening, Breathe in, Breathe out. I slowly start to gain composure of my thoughts. I can hear the people on the ground. I can see them entering the building in their perfect dresses with their perfect hair. I look down at my Royal Blue gown and smile. It's time. I slowly exhale and let myself fall. I'm free. Well, that's what I thought when I jumped, but the world hates me. So now. I'm alive and kicking, quite literally kicking in fact. Paisley George is a screw up, her "True Love" even knew it. So she jumped, but her.... attempted suicide was a failure, now she is stuck living with her grandma. event after event, Paisley ends up becoming friends with the towns bad boys and maybe she might just fall in love with one. You never know.

The Bucket List | Doyoung/Taeyong by kjmsupremacist

Doyoung's always been a bit depressed, but this last year has really put him through the wringer and he's been pretty suicidal. So his therapist cuts him a deal. Make a bucket list. A real, actual bucket list, of all the things he wants to experience, and then do everything on that list. If, at the end of the list, he still wants to kill himself, then they'll go from there. His therapist has a feeling that won't be the case. Doyoung would beg to differ, but he plays along anyway. And then he meets Taeyong, who finds out about the bucket list and makes it his mission to help Doyoung fall in love with being alive again.

Life is Complicated *BoyxBoy* by helpless_dinosaur

(Use to be called 'How Did My Life Get So Complicated?" but figured it was too long and decided to shorten it and give a different description than it was before). Zeke's life was that of a simple nerd who liked being in the background unnoticed and who just happens to be gay. It really doesn't help when you have two tormentors picking on you every single day with no do anything to stop it. Since it was his senior year all he had to do was hang on for the next ten months. Everything will be alright, right? Sadly it won't because life decided to throw a curve ball at Zeke's head by adding more pain other than what his bullies do to him. He gains a friend, looses said friend, only living relative dies and added to that his first love ends before it even really begins.

The Selfless Love by _Rdsoul

<COMPLETED> Fasten your seatbelts, towards the journey of mixed emotions... They say life is hard. Yes, it is. But can you imagine how hard it is to dwell without a loved one? Carrying, tons of memories alone... It would be nice if the loved one comes alive. It isn't possible but it would be nice if it is. The adventure of four girls turned into a disaster on their best day and the encounter of various feeling rides and suffocations, connectives to different people, Can they encounter love again?... Can they be happy again without regrets?... Can they live in peace? An unknown mystery, how they find it, and how they solve it? #sliceoflife #fantasy #depression #life #emotions #death #accident #drama #greed

Together by GraceRiver

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Hope. [COMPLETED] by mayamoox

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Broken Hearted by Broken_Dream76

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The Girl Who Jumped cover

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Life is Complicated *BoyxBoy* cover

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The Girl Who Jumped

I stood on the edge of the rooftop. My eyes closed and my mind free. I'm ready. Now is the time. I could feel my breath quickening, Breathe in, Breathe out. I slowly start to gain composure of my thoughts. I can hear the people on the ground. I can see them entering the building in their perfect dresses with their perfect hair. I look down at my Royal Blue gown and smile. It's time. I slowly exhale and let myself fall. I'm free. Well, that's what I thought when I jumped, but the world hates me. So now. I'm alive and kicking, quite literally kicking in fact. Paisley George is a screw up, her "True Love" even knew it. So she jumped, but her.... attempted suicide was a failure, now she is stuck living with her grandma. event after event, Paisley ends up becoming friends with the towns bad boys and maybe she might just fall in love with one. You never know.