Theonethatgotaway Stories

​Does waiting ever truly end if the heart you long for is "tangled with another's eyes"? ​Follow the journey of Rhyne and Cashel in this story inspired by the raw emotion of the song Lifetime by Ben&Ben. Between the memory of paper planes and the warmth of a love that never faded, they must discover if there is truly a lifetime waiting for them, or if some secrets are better left to the wind. ​"All this time, I have been yours."

This is a story about a boy named Kai who has been secretly in love with his childhood best friend, Rhina, for as long as he can remember. They grew up side by side, sharing the same laughter, the same secrets, and the same neighborhood. They are exactly the same age, born on the same year, even on the same month. They are equals in time, but there has always been one invisible wall separating them-she is a whole grade level higher than him. To everyone else at school, she is supposed to be the brilliant, mature senior. The girl who should be setting an example. But the funny thing is... Rhina is not like that at all. Despite being a year ahead in school and carrying the title of an "Ate" or senior, Rhina is incredibly childish. She is playful, cute, and acts way younger than her age. She loves silly games, she giggles like a little kid, she throws cute tantrums, and she is always so carefree and innocent. She doesn't act like a serious senior at all; she acts more like a little sister who needs protection. And that is exactly why Kai fell so hard for her. He loves how she can be so mature and smart in her studies, yet so sweet, funny, and childlike in personality. To him, she is the perfect mix of everything. He always felt like he was running a race just to catch up to her level. He kept his feelings hidden deep inside his heart, waiting for the perfect moment. But life has a cruel way of playing games. Just as Kai was gathering the courage to finally speak up, the world shattered. The news came like a lightning strike in a clear blue sky. Rhina is sick. Terminally ill. How do you tell someone you've loved your entire life that they mean everything to you, when you know that the very next moment, they might be gone? How do you open your heart and pour out all your emotions, knowing that there will be no future to build together, no more games to play, no more silly dates, no more promises to keep, and no "happily ever after"?

─── ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ─── ||BOOK ONE in the Fear of the Light Duology|| ≪ ◦ ❖ ◦ ≫ Ninety-seven years after a nuclear apocalypse wiped out nearly all of the Earth's population, twelve clans of humans remain on the ground, each with their own culture and way of living. Lead by the fearsome Commander (a clan member with black blood), their forces are united and unstoppable in battle. Alayna kom Trikru never wanted any part of it. At twelve, she ran from her clan with a secret known only by those who cared enough to look for her. Now, at twenty-one, she lives in the forest with her best friend, Lincoln, and no plans of returning home. Her life has never been simple...but she's never seen a ship fall from the sky either. The twelve clans weren't the only ones who survived the apocalypse...and these new people bring danger with them, according to everything she's heard about them. And yet...she can't help but get sucked in, thanks to a certain Bellamy Blake. ≪ ◦ ❖ ◦ ≫ Based on The 100 (Seasons 1-3) CONTENT WARNINGS: Book One contains language, violence & gore, angst, lime, implied sex, drugs, drinking (some underage), and death. If you are uncomfortable with any of these topics, this book is not for you. ≪ ◦ ❖ ◦ ≫ Cover By: @elevenwearsprada Graphics By: Users Detailed Inside ─── ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ───

A collection of poems imagining what would happen if you met the person who once meant everything-years later, in another place, with different versions of yourselves.

Some heartbreaks don't shatter you, they unravel you thread by thread, until you're forced to rebuild the parts of yourself you once gave away. "The Version of You I Never Met" is a "Tribrid" book, part memoir, part emotional guide, part psychological blueprint for anyone who has loved someone who couldn't love them back the way they deserved. Blending raw storytelling with attachment psychology, this book explores the very anatomy loving an avoidant partner, carrying emotional weight for two, surviving emotional absence and walking away from a bond you wanted to кеер. Through a story blood-stained with devotion, confusion, imbalance, heartbreak and clarity the author dissects the hidden patterns behind avoidance, the cost of loving someone who hasn't healed, and the quiet, almost celestial strength it takes to choose yourself when choosing them costs too much. Its not a story about blame it's a story about limits, healing, and the power of understanding the truth even when it hurts. If you've ever begged for clarity or felt invisible in the arms of someone you loved, this book will feel like finally being seen. If you're learning to trust again, it will remind you that healing is possible, and that some endings are actually beginnings in disguise. For the heartbroken, the healing, the emotionally attuned, and the lovers who have always loved too much. This book is your mirror, your medicine, and your metamorphosis. It will break you, then rebuild you. It will explain him, then return you to yourself. It will hurt - then then it will heal. "He loved you, just not in the way you needed. You loved him, just not in the way he could hold."

*She asked for freedom and learned what it cost.* ________________________________________ This is a story about three people bound by the same love - and separated by the moment they were ready to choose it. Lisa loved Jennie deeply, but mistook freedom for distance and reassurance for presence. When she asked for space, she didn't realize she was letting go of the one person who had been staying all along. Jennie learned what it meant to stop asking, to stop waiting, and to choose herself without bitterness. In the aftermath, she rebuilt her life piece by piece - discovering that love doesn't disappear when it's quiet, and that being seen can feel like coming home. Chaeyoung had loved Jennie patiently since they were teenagers, never demanding space, never forcing timing. She stayed when it hurt, waited without disappearing, and arrived not as a replacement - but as someone who was finally met. Told through parallel points of view, this is a story about presence, regret, healing, and the devastating truth that sometimes the greatest love of your life doesn't leave you - you leave it. And sometimes, someone else stays. _______________ As of 6 April 2026: #1 CHAENNIE #1 THEONETHATGOTAWAY #1 MISSEDTIMING #2 SOFTANGST #4 CHARACTERDRIVEN #5 BITTERSWEET #8 PARKCHAEYOUNG

Freya and Malachi knew each other. Knew. Freya moved away when they were in middle school, and didn't talk much anymore. Freya convinced her parents to come back and live in LA again. After all, their parents were best friends. One thing led to another, Freya and Malachi were finding themselves again. Until history repeated itself. Maybe it's all a misunderstanding? Hopefully they talk and find their problems before it's too late.

A collection of thoughts that wander through the maze that is my mind. Most poems are about longing, memory, emotional persistence, vulnerability and the soft ache of unfinished emotions.

They were two pairs of best friends, two girls, two boys. Bound by friendship, separated by love. Between shared laughter and stolen glances, one girl and one boy found themselves falling deeper than they ever intended. It was the kind of love everyone thought would last forever. But life has a funny way of changing plans. In the end, they didn't get their happy ending together. They walked down different aisles, said "I do" to different people, and built lives apart.

He was the sun to her world. With dark blonde hair, honey colored eyes, and a bright smile, they called him Apollo.

She first noticed him on an ordinary afternoon-a boy with a red bag, quiet eyes, and a smile that didn't demand attention, yet somehow held hers. She didn't know his name then. She didn't know he would become a story she would never stop telling herself. Their beginning was gentle-shy glances, late-night messages, laughter shared in borrowed moments. He loved her the way the softest songs sound at dusk: steady, patient, and real. He was the kind of love people search for their whole lives without realizing they once had it. But hearts, when young, do not always recognize gold while it rests in their hands. When someone new appeared, she confused a passing spark for destiny and loosened her grip on the boy who had only ever held her carefully. By the time truth arrived, it was already too late. Time, after all, does not rewind for regret. And now, standing in white, with vows waiting on her lips and a future unfolding before her, she finally understands the quiet tragedy she carries: You don't always lose the love meant for you when they leave. Sometimes, you lose them because you were the one who let go.

A poetry collection written by a broken heart

"My mistake wasn't staying in 'Yesterday.' My mistake was looking at the dark and thinking I could be the one to find the light inside. I spent years chasing the shadow you cast, Lennox, only to realize I was never illuminating your path. I was just drowning my own sun." In the warm, aromatic kitchen of the Castillo residence, life is a recipe for happiness.Hilary Celeste Castillo is the heart of that home-bubbly, cheerful, and full of the kind of light that only a girl raised by a loving litigation lawyer and a retired executive chef could have. To her, the world is a place to be explored, even if her elite social circle demands a certain level of perfection. But every sun has a shadow, and in Hilary's world, that shadow has a name: Jaden Lennox Villafuerte. As the son of a Chief Surgeon and a renowned Doctor, Lennox is a ghost. He is her brother Hunter's best friend, yet he remains famously aloof, detached, and clinical. While Hilary is the vibrant "Today," Lennox is the absolute zero-a boy who treats human interaction like a surgical procedure he'd rather avoid. He is the "Ice Prince" who exists only in brief, cold glimpses and the quiet conversations of the adults in their lives. In the hallways of their prestigious academy, their paths aren't meant to cross more than necessary. It is a story of a girl who wears her heart on her sleeve and a boy who keeps his locked behind a mask of indifference. Will the girl who finds the joy in everything ever truly reach the boy who feels like a distant memory?

Imagination has no limit, fall in love secretly. A collection of poetries about love, life, mental health, happiness and imagination.

Would you choose friendship?

Once in our lives, there is one person that whatever we do he/she will be stucked. Not just stuck to our mind but also lives in our heart. And that was the story of my TOTGA. My "The one that got away"

When Olivia Skylar transfers into AP Chemistry mid-year, Lucy Chen does what she always does: she walks toward the person everyone else has written off. What begins as tutoring slowly becomes the most important relationship either of them has ever had - two girls learning each other across study tables and Sunday afternoons, through a video game built in secret and a playlist memorized without being asked, until the thing neither of them named became impossible to keep nameless.

WHAT IF YOUR GREATEST LOVE ARRIVED TOO EARLY...BEFORE YOU KNEW HOW TO KEEP IT? Inah spent her life piecing together fragments of love and carrying the quiet fear of being left behind. Beneath her calm exterior lies a guarded heart, afraid to hold on-until she met Elias, the music major who spoke in melodies and carried restless, untamed shadows that haunted the silence between every note. Set in the year 1999, when messages lingered on paper, phone calls were counted in coins, and songs were shared through cassette tapes that carried the sender's heartbeat in every rewind-this story follows two guarded souls, each a little lost, as they navigate the fragile space between friendship and something more. As fleeting moments turned into letters and music, the stars began to align, and neither knew just how deeply they had written themselves into each other's story. Because sometimes, the most powerful stories aren't the ones we write, but the ones we live. Copyright © Jun 2025 Written by L.L.L. - First Published on Wattpad

Have you ever loved someone so deeply that you felt like you were drowning in their affection? I once did. I thought I had found my soulmate, the one person who would understand me completely. I believed that our love was invincible, a force that could conquer any obstacle. But as time went on, the tides began to turn. The gentle waves of affection turned into crashing waves of indifference. I was swept away by the current of their emotions, feeling lost and helpless. The once-familiar shores of happiness were now distant and obscured by the fog of doubt. I clung to the hope that things would change, that the storm would pass, but it seemed to intensify with each passing day. The once-comforting embrace of their love now felt suffocating, a heavy weight on my soul. I yearned for the peace that had once defined our relationship, but it seemed to have vanished without a trace. I was left to navigate the treacherous waters of heartbreak, alone and adrift. But what if love isn't always enough? What if the person you love is capable of hurting you in ways you never imagined? And what if the only way to heal is to let go, even when your heart is begging you to hold on?

𝒟𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝒟𝒶𝓃𝒾𝑒𝓁, I𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝒹𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓁𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒹? 𝐼 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒻𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝑜𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝐼 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈, 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝑒𝓁𝓈𝑒. 𝐼𝓉 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝓈𝒾𝓉 𝑜𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓀 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝓊𝓈𝓉... 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓅𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓊𝓈. 𝒰𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓃... 𝒴𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈, 𝒦𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑒. An Epistolary short story