Expectation Stories

As a gift for her 23rd birthday, Thalia receives an unexpected letter informing her that her great-uncle Cedric, a man she barely knew but had always found intriguing, has left her a peculiar little shop called "Enchanted Oddities." After his passing, she attends his funeral and moves into the apartment above the shop. After struggling to get the place up and running again, she is visited by a group of mysterious beings with direct ties to Cedric and reveal that the shop serves as a portal for mythical creatures seeking refuge and unique items. She accepts their help as she uncovers the reason she was chosen to continue his legacy.

Nobody told them that seventeen would feel like this. Too young to know what they're doing. Old enough to think they do. They weren't childhood best friends. They didn't grow up together. They didn't have some dramatic story about how they met. They just kept ending up in the same places. Same corridors. Same lunch table. Same group chat. And somehow, that was enough. At first, they were just people you knew. Then people you sat with. Then people you waited for. Then, somewhere along the way, someone's absence started feeling weird. Someone's "reached?" became something you waited for. Someone's name became the first one you looked for when you walked into school. And feelings started showing up where nobody had invited them. But this isn't only about falling in love. It's about friendships that become important without permission. About parents who don't always understand. About choosing a future when you're still trying to figure yourself out. About fights that last five minutes and memories that last years. About growing up while pretending you're not. There will be ordinary school days, stupid jokes, family dinners, bad decisions, late-night conversations, awkward silences, plans that change and people who slowly become impossible to imagine life without. Maybe that's the strange thing about growing up. You don't notice yourself changing. You notice it later- when you look back and realise that somewhere between being strangers and becoming friends, something happened. Not loudly. Not all at once. Just enough to change everything. Maybe the important parts of life aren't at the beginning or the end. Maybe they're somewhere in between. ~ @author_ayeshii ---- No.1 in #schoolassignment :27-09-2026

This story follows seven main characters working at the same hospital, each navigating the uncertainties of adulthood in their own way. As they face demanding careers, personal struggles, and the pressure of caring for others, they're forced to confront old wounds, discover who they want to become, and learn that healing isn't something anyone does alone. Along the way, unexpected friendships and quiet romances challenge them to open their hearts just as much as their minds.

She scored 98%. Everyone told Jahnavi that IIT was inevitable. Then came 4/11. Between falling scores, unfinished lectures, impossible expectations, and the fear that maybe she had aimed too high, Jahnavi begins to wonder if the girl who excelled in Class 10 was already the best version of herself. But perhaps growing up isn't about staying the person you were. Perhaps it's about learning to become someone new. She doesn't know where this journey will take her. Not yet.

◇Title: SAFAR: TRAIN TO UNKNOWN ◇Subtitle: He was the nation's brightest star running from the noise; she was the quiet dawn waiting at the end of the tracks. ​ ◇​"Two strangers. One delayed overnight train heading into the mist. He brought the dark silence of a exhausted superstar; she brought a pad of textured paper and charcoal-stained fingers. They were never supposed to share a compartment, but some journeys rewrite your destination before you even arrive. ◇Main Tropes ​Strangers to Lovers ​Burnt-Out Superstar × Observant Portrait Artist ​Forced Proximity ​Slow Burn Romance ◇​Author Note ​"Sketched in the dark, painted in warmth." 🎉 Daily update till next 15 days every evening IST!🎉 ♡◇◇A story by berrywrites◇◇♡

I have always wondered what it means to own a day. Is it enough for your name to be written on the calendar? Is it enough for candles to burn in your honor? Is it enough for people to gather because you were born? Or does a day only become yours when you are finally allowed to decide what happens inside it? Somewhere between the candles and the calendar, I think I lost the answer. Perhaps I was never searching for a day of my own. Perhaps I was only searching for a seat at my own table.

Yue has always known who she was supposed to be. A good daughter. A good student. A daughter who never complains, never disappoints, and never asks for too much. But some things are easier to hide than others. When a new friendship enters her life, Yue begins to see a world beyond the one her parents built for her. A world filled with secrets, late-night messages, quiet confessions, and choices she was never supposed to make. And then something changes. The life she thought she understood begins to fall apart-and Yue is left wondering how much of it was ever really hers to begin with. Sometimes, the person you spend your whole life trying to become is the person you were never meant to be.

What happens when your dreams become reminders of everything you couldn't become? ​Failure is a poem for the weary, the overthinkers, and the ones who live in the "almost." It's a candid look at disappointment, comparison, and the stubborn, terrifying spark of hope that refuses to die even when you want it to. To the younger version of me who believed life would eventually make sense: I'm sorry. Failure captures the quiet grief of growing up and feeling like doors are softly closing behind you. It is an anthem for the tired souls who are close enough to see the life they wanted, but can't quite touch it-and the beautiful, painful courage it takes to think about trying one more time.

(Feely Male Lead × Kavanagh Female Lead) Everyone knew Patrick Feely as the Mute. He was seen as shy, reserved and calm. But nobody knew who he really was. An alcholic, with a Father breathing down his neck to choose the family farm and leave his carreer in the music field. Then, at 12 years old, he met Evelyn Kavanagh. His only weakness. The only girl that could see him past every wall he tried to build. Evelyn Kavanagh lived a really good life. As Johnny's little sister, she was known by everyone at Tommen College and had a lot of boys aproaching her. But she had eyes for only one boy. Patrick Feely. Living feeling only like her brother's shadow, She was determinated to pull back Patrick from the edge of distruction. Will they be able to have their happy ending, or will they burn together?

Everyone thought she had everything. She was the youngest child in a family where expectations were never spoken softly . Love came tangled with responsibility, success came with pressure, and every achievement seemed to create another standard she had to reach. From the outside, her life looked almost perfect-the kind of life people would dream about having. So she smiled. She smiled when she was tired. She smiled when she felt misunderstood. She smiled when the expectations became too heavy. She smiled when there were things she couldn't explain. And eventually, that smile became so convincing that nobody thought to ask what was hiding behind it. Being the youngest was supposed to mean being protected, loved, and cared for. But sometimes being the youngest meant being treated as though your feelings were smaller, your struggles were less important, and your mistakes were harder to forgive. Everyone had an idea of who she was supposed to become, but almost nobody stopped to ask who she actually wanted to be. Behind the beautiful house, the comfortable life, the family name, and everything money could provide was a girl trying to understand herself. A girl carrying memories she wished she could forget. A girl learning that having everything does not mean feeling like you have everything. A girl who became good at hiding the moments when she wasn't okay.

She has always photographed the sky-the clouds, the sunsets, the storms, and the endless blue above her. But somewhere between the changing seasons, silent trees, restless birds, and photographs she never meant to take, she begins to notice something deeper. A story about growing up, expectations, dreams, quiet sacrifices, and the invisible boundaries people learn to live within. Because maybe the sky was never the limit. Maybe the real question was-who taught us to stop looking up?

On the outside, Jumper is the perfect student; she's friendly, cheerful, has a great group of friends, is in a competitive program for gifted students, still tops all her classes along with her best friend Jojo, earns trophies in piano, places high in math contests, is great in choir, and is training to be a lifeguard. On the inside, she's drowning under the weight of the expectations she's built from the ground up through all her accomplishments, trying to stay the happy person everyone expects her to be while internally struggling with the intense workloads, doubts that won't stop piling up, and a secret dream she's too scared to try for. As worries start stacking up, cracks start forming and she starts falling behind. Trapped between wanting and not being willing to take the first step, Jumper's mind is proving to be the biggest obstacle in her path. A.k.a. A place for me to project.

"𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗴𝘂𝘆𝘀, 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴...." ─⁠──⁠──⁠──⁠──⁠──⁠──⁠──⁠──⁠─ 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬. [ COMING SOON ]

Constance meets a hot man named Beom on a bus. She always sees him on her commute to her new job, but is too scared to say anything to him. One day, she decides to talk to him. He is surprised when she can see him. After all, he has invented a way to be invisible to everyone, saying he's done with other people's expectations. Constance has to slowly coax Beom to stop doing that by convincing him of the value of being seen. |One of my entries for the 2023 Open Novella Contest| |Cover designed by @EstelleKnightrise| |Description is under construction| © Sherly Holmes 2023 (All Rights Reserved)

Dreandra Verceluz is a sophomore engineering student, who carries the heavy responsibility of being the family's eldest child and pressure from her family and relatives' expectations. She had come to Manila to build the dreams she had ever since, but crossing paths with the university's infamous law student, Antonio Sherion Coronel, had caused her to stray from the path she planned to walk on.

I am a creative beast of a bird with an imagination like that of the sky. What subsequently follows is the beginning of a poetry chapbook with a similiar theme and whatever else comes to mind on the topic.

It's about a teen girl who expected high school would be absolutely imaginary and got disappointed and fell in love, If you enjoyed reading the first part I'll right the second one soon..❤️

This is story of my life. Everything based in true memories.

A series of poems describing the sad times and sad realities of life.. How to get back your hope in the darkest times? no one knows..😭😭

this book is a progression of my thoughts and me as a person. parts could be days apart, and have even been years apart. they will release when you least expect them. hopefully my experiences will be able to help you with your own life