Growth Stories

"I helped you fall in love... but with her." "I stood beside you... while you loved her." "I see you... even when you don't see me." Lily to Ryan... --- "You're everything I could never be enough for." "If you'd just look my way... I'd stay." "Even in a crowded room, my eyes still find you." Ryan to Jessica... --- "You're not what they say... I see more." "Let me be the reason you change." "Even your darkness feels like home to me." Jessica to Oliver... --- Lily always wishes Ryan to notice her... but his heart belongs to Jessica. And Jessica? She only sees Oliver-the confident, charming boy everyone envies. Together, they seem perfect. Untouchable. Ryan longs to be part of their world. Lily stays by his side as his best friend... hiding feelings that are slowly breaking her. So she makes a choice. A clever, unexpected plan to help Ryan get closer to Jessica- even if it means sacrificing her own heart. At first, everything goes exactly as planned. Until it doesn't. Things change. Feelings shift. Lines blur. --- What is the plan? What are the unexpected results? In a story of love, friendship, and impossible choices... who will end up with a broken heart? And lastly, who is the main character in the story? (Left for the reader) Curious? Keep reading 😉 7 chapters, each approximately 2000 words. Every Tuesday and Friday, a new chapter will be released. I can promise you that each chapter grows softer, more romantic, and more full of quiet excitement than the one before. Enjoy the journey...

📚 NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! ___________ 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲. Nora is good at surviving. She has been doing it her whole life. She knows which silences are safe. She knows how to make herself small enough to go unnoticed. She knows how to hold a life together with nothing but routine and patience and the quiet, unshakeable belief that if she follows the rules, nothing will fall apart. She has never asked for more. She has never believed she deserved it. It isn't a big life. But it is hers. And it is stable. And stable is everything. 𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲... 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁. Suddenly, the life she carefully built begins to crack. Uneven. Unpredictable. Wrong. For someone who has always survived by knowing what comes next...that is the most dangerous thing of all. Because if she can't predict him-what comes after? And if she leaves... 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼? ___________ Read now: US: https://a.co/d/0bmGM6Gy UK: https://amzn.eu/d/0bgAYaPB CA: https://a.co/d/09CpG1Df AU: https://amzn.asia/d/0eoasoCN IN: https://amzn.in/d/0jjun1kc MX: https://a.co/d/0bEnUjYI BR: https://a.co/d/02cybMIk

Blood on his hands. Soil under hers. A broken ring between them. Serenity Claveria used to sign death orders in diamonds, her wedding band flashing under chandelier light while she turned her husband's crumbling syndicate into an empire. Now that same ring lies split in two, buried beneath the Claveria garden she fled to where she spends her mornings with dirt under her nails instead of gunpowder, pretending the ghosts in her chest are just echo. At the gates, her past keeps knocking. Dario Valente arrives day after day with gifts that burn brighter than his apologies watches, cars, silk, all fed to the fire by Eli, the bodyguard who would rather die than let his former boss back into her orbit. Smoke curls into the sky like incense over a grave, and Dario watches the life he threw away turn his offerings to ash without blinking. In the treeline, another man waits. Salvatore Montenegro, once the bastard she insulted in this very garden, now a king in his own right, kneels in her soil like it's an altar. He plants the flowers she loves, reroutes wars away from her borders, and says nothing when her voice still shakes on her ex-husband's name. His devotion doesn't come with chains, only patience sharp enough to cut. The underworld thinks Serenity lost everything in that divorce. They don't see the moment her gaze shifts away from the man who broke her ring, and toward the one who's ready to guard the hand that wore it.

In a realm beyond time and space, where the fabric of reality is interwoven with countless dimensions, exists the Author God known as Will. For millions of years, Will and his family have watched over the multiverse, carefully observing the stories of beings from various anime worlds and a seemingly ordinary young man from the real world, known as (Y/n) (L/n). The characters, once transported to a mystical theater to witness the life and adventures of (Y/n), have long since faded away, leaving Will to ponder the next step. After eons of solitude, Will devises a plan to revive the magic of his theater. He decides to bring forth the living versions of the characters who had once populated his cinematic audience, those who had changed their fates and grown in unimaginable ways. Why?Simple!Trying something for the fourth time is like tending a stubborn garden. The first three seeds might have withered, pecked at by birds, or choked by weeds. But each attempt teaches you something new - which seeds are strongest, which soil is best, how to build better protection. By the fourth planting, you're not just throwing seeds in the ground; you're cultivating hope with the wisdom of experience, and the bloom will be all the more vibrant for the perseverance it took to reach it.

She woke up in a new world as a hated princess after once being admired, and now she was stuck with several powerful men who did not even like her. Instead of dealing with all that trouble, she left everything behind, broke the engagements, and moved to a quiet, empty planet. There, she lived a peaceful life, growing plants, studying medicine, and raising a strange creature, until more and more people started showing up. Soon, those who once ignored her began chasing after her, but she refused them all and chose to live freely on her own.

In the world where humans and furries live in harmony. Y/N is an average teenager who is living in highschool as a junior year. He got transfer into another school. But thankfully he won't be alone as he got a friend who going with him. Though it going to be tough. Y/N must face challenges not only with the school or the students but also his autism as he must overcome all of it if he truly want to develop and overcome his autism.

That night, my phone buzzed with a message from an unknown number. "I told you... I'd find a way to know you." My heart stopped. Because I never gave him my number.

[Synopsis Title: He Never Chose Her Until She Chose Herself] Claire Carter falls in love with the kind of love that was never hers. For years, she watches Ethan Sterling adore her roommate, Vanessa Hayes, with a quiet devotion that makes jealousy feel inevitable. So when Ethan reappears after the breakup and chooses Claire instead, she says yes-even knowing she is stepping into a space still haunted by another woman. He is attentive, generous, and almost impossibly considerate. But no matter how perfect he looks on paper, his heart always feels half-closed. Then, under a sky full of holiday fireworks, Claire sees the truth she has been trying not to name: Ethan never really let Vanessa go. The breakup should be the end. Instead, it becomes the beginning of Claire's life. Far from the ruins of that relationship, she rebuilds herself into a sharp, unshakable corporate leader-only to collide with Ethan and Vanessa again in a high-stakes business battle where old feelings, old wounds, and old humiliations refuse to stay buried. Now Claire has to face the two people who once defined her worst insecurities. Ethan wants another chance. Vanessa wants to prove Claire was never more than second place. But this time, Claire isn't fighting for love-she's fighting for her dignity, her career, and the version of herself she nearly lost. When the past comes calling, will she finally be chosen... or will she be the one who walks away for good?

Sunria Miliander, was just a spunky collage cheerleader captain, who wanted a real life outside of her family's mobster lifestyle. Zain Zachary, was just a cash spending executive at his fathers firm, who did nothing but be a parting fool. Before both their lives are turned upside down from their families. Then forced to collide into a marriage neither of them wanted through a binding contract they weren't allowed out of. Although, even with deadly life-threatening secrets on the line, agreeing was not an easy decision for Sunria and Zain to go through with it. Especially when from the start, the high tension between Sunria and Zain created them to despise each other. But when fate encounters them together, it's a far better understanding of how they feel toward eachother. Including ones that show Zain and Sunria why they must follow their one main rule in their contract- play the perfect married couple. Will the high tension between Sunria and Zain, allow them to put their differences aside to pull off the perfect marriage. Can Sunria and Zain still have their own lives in a marriage that contracted them together with obligations? May a spark ignite between Sunria and Zain that will want them to break down their wall? Or could their secrets that are hiding between Sunria and Zain, change everything for them and their freedom, once their revealed. © All Right Reserved

This is honestly my first ever completed work. I start writing a lot of stories, but usually give up about halfway in because they don't live up to my standards or because I think they're cringe. This short story is really just a bunch of my emotions mashed together to somehow create something that makes sense. I've been going through a lot of difficult stuff lately, and I guess writing helped me process some of it. If you're curious about the deeper meanings behind some things, I might be willing to share. I also snuck in three Zelda references in here. One of them is pretty obvious (if you've played Ocarina of Time, that is), but the other two are a bit more subtle. Let me know what you think :)

Success isn't just about hard work; sometimes, it requires a little bit of the impossible. The Polymath's Fables is an anthology of modern fairy tales for those who believe that mastery of a craft is the truest form of magic.

Nine months after their divorce, Zee and Nunew have settled into something that feels almost normal-talking like friends, like nothing ever truly broke between them. But between their chats and the pauses that linger just a second too long, there are things left unsaid-feelings that never really left, only learned how to stay hidden... so if it really means nothing, why are they still here?

Where We Took Root is an apocalyptic book, but not in the normal sense. Rooters aren't dangerous; they won't chase you or try to bite you, but they will infect you. Don't touch the rooters; they carry the disease, and avoid plant life that seems unusual. Don't get too attached, for everything returns to the earth. And certainly read to the end.

Did it birth me or everything I know see. What it about peace or was it about Keith?

She was supposed to be his bride. Everything was already in place, the wedding date, the family expectations, the perfect man everyone said she was lucky to have. But just days before it all, she does the unthinkable she postpones it till further notice. Not because she stopped loving him, but because she wasn't sure she was ready. In a world where women are often expected to become wives before they become whole, she chooses something different, uncertainty over pretending, growth over comfort and silence over a life she isn't ready for. A deeply emotional coming of age romance about growth, patience, and the kind of love that survives even silence.

Speed was never meant to slow down. And Shadow was never meant to create life. In a world that never stops moving, Sonic the Hedgehog has always lived in the moment-fast, free, and untouchable. But somewhere between battles, quiet moments, and unspoken feelings, something begins to change between him and Shadow. What started as rivalry turned into trust... and something far deeper neither of them ever planned for. Shadow the Hedgehog has always carried the weight of being the Ulitmate Life Form. Built, not born. A weapon, not a future. But when his body begins to change in ways he can't explain, even if he is forced to confront something that was never supposed to be possible. Life. As emotions rise and reality shifts, Sonic finds himself facing something he's never had to outrun before responsibility. And Shadow must decide whether he can accept a future he was never meant to have-one that ties him to Sonic in the most permanent way imaginable. But in a world filled with danger, enemies, and uncertainty, not everyone will welcome what they've created. And when the line between chaos and miracle begins to blur, one question remains- Can something born from the impossible truly survive? 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫: This is a fanfiction based on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. All characters belong to SEGA and their respective creators. This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment purposes only and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SEGA. Themes in this story may include romance, angst, and sensitive topics that may not be suitable for all audiences. Reader discretion is advised.

𝑬𝒗𝒊𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒓𝒐𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆. After all, love never stays. Her plan is simple: head down, feelings buried, and people at a distance. It works... until 𝑬𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑯𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒔. Ethan doesn't try to be noticed, but he notices everything. Her silence. Her moods. Her almost-words. And for the first time, Evie is faced with something more dangerous than heartbreak: 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏. 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔 → 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 → 𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒔. They became each other's entire world, until one choice shattered it all. Now, every glance is a battle. Every word is a weapon. And the silence between them? It's louder than ever. They say they hate each other. They say they've moved on. But you can't ignore the person who knows your soul. "𝑰𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒆," 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅. (𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒕: 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆.) "𝑴𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆," 𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅. (𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓.) In a story where the line between hate and love disappears, how do you choose between protecting your heart... and finally letting yourself be seen? ✨ 𝑻𝑹𝑶𝑷𝑬𝑺: • Slow-Burn Romance • He Falls Harder • Best Friends to Enemies to Lovers • "If you touch her" vibes • Quiet Obsession For readers who loved 'Better Than the Movies' and believe that sometimes, silence speaks the loudest. 🌙

What happens when an ordinary life is torn apart-and replaced with a world where death is always one step behind? Most people will never know. He didn't get that choice. And now, survival isn't just important. It's everything.

She thought she knew how to protect herself. Stay quiet. Stay distant. Don't expect too much. It worked- until she met someone who didn't play by those rules. And now... the one thing she doesn't trust is the one thing that feels safe.

This is not a story about dying. It is a story about living - fully, honestly, and on one's own terms. Corey has his whole life ahead of him... until he doesn't. After a life-changing diagnosis, he makes a choice most wouldn't understand: instead of going home, he keeps going. Traveling across the world with his friends, he chooses to experience everything he still can - laughter, connection, quiet moments, and the kind of clarity that only comes when time feels limited. Through the pages of his personal journal, Corey captures not what he's losing... but everything he refuses to miss. When his journey finally brings him home, and his story reaches its final chapter, the truth of how he lived begins to unfold for those he loved most. And in that understanding, they begin to see life differently too. Life on My Terms is a deeply emotional and uplifting story about love, choice, family, and the quiet courage it takes to truly live. This isn't a story about the end. It's about everything that comes before it.