Almost Stories

Some people never really leave your life. No matter how hard you try to forget them. Nitya has spent years building walls around herself-around memories that don't make sense, around a past that feels like it belongs to someone else. And then Rivan walks back in like he never left. Familiar. Distant. Hiding something. He cares for her in ways he never explains, protects her without telling her why, and keeps secrets that slowly begin to unravel everything she thought she knew. Because loving him was never the problem. Trusting him is. And when the truth finally comes out, Nitya will have to decide-Is love enough to stay, when everything else is falling apart? ─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

Some stories don't begin with a choice. They begin with timing. July, 2024. The monsoon has swallowed Navi Mumbai whole. Neven is the quiet boy in the red t-shirt-the one who observes more than he speaks, travels by local train, dreams bigger than his circumstances and hides behind a pair of glasses and a notebook full of ideas. Tara is fighting battles nobody sees. Raised in a traditional joint family in Kharghar, every decision she makes is watched, measured, and questioned. College is supposed to be freedom, but some walls follow you everywhere. They were children who lived only a few lanes apart and never met. Then, on a rainy morning in Nerul, everything changes. From crowded Harbour Line trains and late-night conversations to Siesons 2025, a Mithoon concert, quiet lake walks, misunderstandings, first love and the painful realization that loving someone isn't always enough, ALMOST is a story about timing, growing up, and the people who leave permanent marks on our lives. Because sometimes, the greatest love stories aren't the ones that end with forever. They're the ones that stay with you because they were almost. A grounded Indian college romance set in Navi Mumbai. For everyone who has ever loved someone at the wrong time.

Surfer meets a singer...who happens to be her brothers best friend - Delaney Rowland is just your usual twenty something year old trying to figure out what to do with life. Harry Styles is your very unusual twenty something year old rockstar trying to find independence. When the two meet during a summer vacation a love blossoms. The two sleep through the summer, surf the days away, until the end of the warm months. Once summer ends the two test to see if it's just a summer fling - completed soft/famous harry mature themes

Some people change your life all at once. Others do it so quietly, you don't realize how much they mean until years later. Grant Walker has always been there. Her older brother's best friend. The boy who grew up in the background of Sadie Bennett's life. But at Ashford University, somewhere between football Saturdays, crowded bars, late-night drives, and years of almost, something begins to shift. Everyone else seems to see it. The way he looks at her. The way she always finds him in a crowded room. The undeniable pull neither of them is willing to name. But growing up has a way of complicating even the simplest things. And as the years pass, Sadie begins to wonder if some people are meant to be more than a chapter in your story. The Way He Looked at Me is an emotional slow-burn romance about growing up, missed moments, and the one person who quietly becomes impossible to forget. Because sometimes, the greatest love stories don't begin with falling. They begin with someone who was always there.

She didn't mean to fall for her boss. He never planned to let her get that close. When Special Agent Savannah Hayes transfers to NCIS Washington, she expects cold cases, long hours, and a team that doesn't trust her yet. What she doesn't expect is Leroy Jethro Gibbs - steady, guarded, and impossible to read. Between late nights, dangerous cases, and quiet moments in a basement workshop, something begins to shift. Not fast. Not easily. But undeniably. Because in their world, hesitation is safer. Distance is smarter. And almost is easier. But almost doesn't last forever.

[COMPLETED ✅] Lee Y/N always sits in the passenger seat - early, polite, and carrying a grief she never once lets anyone drive past. Park Chaeyoung has spent her whole life being watched. She just never expected the one person hired to advise her would be the first person to actually see her. A one-year contract keeps them in the same rooms, the same car, the same careful distance - until the distance stops being safe, and the silence starts costing more than either of them can afford. Some loves don't get you first. Some arrive after everything else has already happened, and ask you to love the whole story anyway - the parts that are still someone else's, and the parts that might, finally, be yours. A slow-burn f/f romance about grief that doesn't end, love that refuses to compete with it, and the quiet, terrifying work of learning to want something out loud.

Note: I wrote this without proof-reading it, and I was twelve. I am completely sorry if you find this carrot-y, cringe-worthy, and grammatically incorrect--but this was written in my early One Direction obsession--it'd be nice if you bear with me. Or even better; not read this at all. Save yourself. -- It's a little funny actually. The person you don't even want to see again suddenly comes back, and even though you promised yourself multiple times that you will never accept them in your arms again, you know it's just impossible to resist. Especially when that person is your best friend, and the person you fell in love with.

There are ghosts that don't rattle chains or float on the wall. Some just sit quietly in the corners of your memory, wearing the same smile they had when you were seventeen.

People often say that the most painful breakup is the one that ends in good terms. Walang panloloko. Walang pagtataksil. Wala ring sinuman ang dapat sisihin. Just two people who loved each other enough to let each other go and genuinely wished each other the happiness they deserved. For the longest time, naniwala rin doon si Arzelle. After all, she and Madrid had already said their goodbyes years ago. They chose different paths, built different lives, and learned how to live without each other. Akala niya, sapat na iyon. Akala niya, ganoon ang closure. Hanggang sa isang hindi inaasahang muling pagkikita ang nagpamulat sa kanya na ang pagpapaalam at ang pagtatapos ng isang kuwento ay hindi pala iisa. Because maybe that's the cruelest part about some love stories. They teach you how to let go. They teach you how to move on. They teach you how to live without each other. But they never teach you how to end.

Four years. Hundreds of conversations. Zero answers. June met Elliot when she was seventeen. Since then, they have flirted, disappeared, reappeared, overthought, misunderstood each other, and somehow remained in each other's lives without ever defining what they were. He keeps coming back. She keeps wondering why. And neither of them seems willing to ask the one question that could change everything. Or end it. Maybe some stories aren't meant to become love stories. Maybe they're only meant to stay almost. A contemporary slow-burn romance about timing, curiosity, and the people who linger in our lives long after they should have become memories.

They met when they were too young. They loved each other when life wanted different things. Ten years later, fate gives them one more chance. But some love stories are meant to be forever... and some are meant to remain almost. A work of fiction. But inspired by feelings we've all had.

Almost Us is a tender, mysterious exploration of a love that almost was - a story delicately woven with real emotions, fragmented moments, and the bittersweet ache of what could have been. Through the eyes of Raya Roy, a deeply introspective and romantic soul, readers are taken on a journey of self-discovery, silent heartbreaks, and quiet resilience. Set against the backdrop of everyday life, where texts left on read feel like unsaid goodbyes and fleeting calls become lifelines, this story unfolds her emotionally intense connection with Greyson Carter - a bond too profound to define, yet never quite whole. Blending reality with traces of fiction, Almost Us is for anyone who has loved without being loved back the same way, who has waited without answers, and who has learned to let go without closure. It's about the courage to feel deeply, the strength to walk away, and the beauty of remembering - not what was, but what almost was.

The strangest thing about surviving heartbreak is that nobody tells you the exact moment you stop waiting. For me, it happened on a Thursday afternoon, when I saw a picture of the boy I'd loved for three years holding someone else's hand and realized that all I felt was gratitude that he had finally found his way home. The devastating part was understanding that, for the first time, I had too. "I wish I had met you at a different time." "No. I think we met exactly when we were supposed to." Tags: New Adult Romance (even though it's really about unrequited love) Contemporary Coming of Age Mental Health One-Sided Love Slow Burn (emotionally, not romantically 😭) Friends to...? Healing Music

They came to the seaside town for different reasons, but all with the same goal - to escape. A young women carrying silent heartbreaks and a boy tired of living in a world that never felt like home find comfort in one unforgettable summer. Between midnight conversations, ocean waves, old songs, and warm sunsets, the two slowly create a peaceful little world away from their painful realities. For the first time in a long while, they laugh freely, breathe easier, and begin to heal. But as summer grows deeper, feelings start to blur the line between friendship and something more complicated. Because some people enter your life like summer itself - beautiful, comforting, and impossible to keep forever. And sometimes, love doesn't fully happen. Sometimes... it becomes an "almost."

"What If We Happened?" is a raw and intimate reflection on a connection that never quite became a relationship but never really left, either. Across time zones and late-night messages, two strangers, Nyah and Nathan build something that feels real through a screen. But when silence suddenly replaces conversation, one is left holding all the words they never got to say. This is a story of almosts, of unanswered questions, and of the haunting beauty in asking "What if it happened? What if we happened?"

Sabi ng matatanda totoo ang tadhana. Pero paano kung ang taong minahal mo ay hindi pala nakatadhana sa'yo? Kaya mo bang baguhin ang pagkaka ayos ng inyong bituin sa langit? Handa ka bang pigilan ang tadhana? Pero paano mo makakayanan, kung bigla ka nalang iniwan ng taong handa mong ipaglaban. "He promised me that he will never leave me. But I'm here all alone. He break all of his promises, he never cared at all. Alam niyang mahihirapan ang puso kong makalimutan siya dahil napaka hina nito. Pero iniwan niya parin ako, pinagpalit, and you know what hurts the most? Is when you can't moved on to a person that never been yours. In the first place, he never been mine-and he will never be mine. Maybe falling inlove with him is just one of my teenage mistake. But I can't deny that, he's my favorite almost."

Carter is not much of a party animal, but when your best friend's brother is throwing the party, you say yes, no questions asked. It wasn't like Carter didn't like parties or anything; it was just she never got involved. So when Samantha tells Carter about the party that night, Carter jumps at the chance. Not soon after getting there, Sam abandons her for some guy she met. But soon Carter meets her own guy. Things go to far, and soon she finds out, that's her last party for a while. Will Collin stay? Or will Carter have to raise the baby on her own? Find out in The Bad Choice.

My story of my almost love. Someone I would have done anything for. Someone who didn't love me in true. Someone who only wished to watch me burn. Let this be a trigger warning for mature and heavy content. Severe mental health issues, drug use, suicide, death, eating disorders, and self harm will be mentioned.

Valerie finds out she's actually Zack Merrick's little sister and she gets to tour with his band. And she gets quite close with her favorite band member: Alex Gaskarth. But does he care about her past? And what if old thoughts come back to haunt her?

Jace is living the high life. His parents are paying to get him into college anyway, so studying isn't an issue, he has girls lining up across the block just to speak to him, he's the biggest player money can buy - and he loves it. But when Jace meets Isabelle, a more natural California beauty, with a sweet personality who seems resistant to his charm, he finds himself losing his touch. In quite a predicament, he gets his parents to pay her personally to spend a Summer with him in his beach house. Of course, Isabelle isn't rich and her parents need the money an awful lot, so she reluctantly comes with Jace. Jace has a Summer to get Isabelle to adore him like every other girl in his school, and Isabelle has a Summer to make sure that doesn't end up the case - but when a female and a male teenager live together, alone, right next to the beach, romance blooms and soon they find out they're falling for each other despite themselves...