“I love you.” He froze, his back to me. Swallowing the lump in my throat, I doubled down. “I love you.” He was completely still, save for a muscle jumping in his neck. Slowly, he turned to face me, his expression a kaleidoscope of emotions I couldn’t decipher.

“No you don’t.” He shook his head, ran his hands through his hair. Turned away from me again, then turned back. I couldn’t take my eyes o...

Once upon a time in a small town, there lived a vampire named Vlad. Vlad was over 100,000 years old and had seen it all. He was suave, charming, and had a killer sense of humor. But there was one thing missing in his eternal life - love.

Vlad had been eyeing his neighbor, a beautiful young woman named Sarah, for quite some time. He knew he had to make a move before it was too late. So one night, ...

“Look, I knew I’d regret it if I didn’t say it right now !”

My voice cracked .

My words unable to come out .

Then his voice .

A shout .

“Say it !”

Then it retreats to a whisper .

“Say it”

So I do .

Tell him everything .

How it happened .

Funny How mere words can make a difference.

But they did for me .

And they can for you .

So say it ....

The air was thick with things unsaid…

A quiet weight that pressed between us…

I felt the burden of every silence…

Those small truths…

Locked away…

Too fragile to speak about…

I knew I’d regret it if I didn’t say it right now…

But the words, they weren’t mine…

They trembled, waiting…

Stuck somewhere between hope and shame…

The moment stretched…

And I almost let it slip away…

And yet, I said it…

A...

“I knew I’d regret it if I didn’t say it now.”

Mateo’s eyes are green, with specks of brown. I never noticed that before. He continues.

“You know what, never mind sorry- this was stupid-“

“It’s not stupid.” I say. My heart beats faster. Weird. I’ve told this little fun fact about myself to random people all the time and never once has my body acted like this before.

“I have something to adm...

"You only live once!" was a line everybody knew.

Whether that be in shortened form "YOLO" or the words by themselves, everybody knew it.

Living scares me. I live in a world that feels like a prison cell. Sometimes I so badly want to break out if that cell. But I get a weird feeling in my chest. Was is panic? I am not sure was exactly the feeling is.

My mind shifts. One second I am desperate to ...

I knew I’d regret if I didn’t say it right now.

Yet here I stand, frozen. I bite my lips staring at the message, thousand emotions coursing through my inner palace.

My head creating images,images of me crying, screaming, hitting, breaking, beating and killing.

Yet there I sat straight face, no tears, no trembling and reading the message.

“I love you”

I didn’t know the answer, I didn’t even kno...

Months pass. Carter and Railyn have a system. Tracy has “book club” every Friday night and Aiden goes to his friends house for “game night” every Friday. Theyre DEFINITELY together every Friday night.

But so are the other two.

~ - * - ~

Railyn sits at the counter, texting Carter. Aiden is grabbing his stuff for game night. He comes up to Railyn, his hands fighting with his lanyard.

“Uhm. Raily...

The smell of gingerbread still hung in the air when I woke up, sweet and faintly spicy, like a memory that had stuck around overnight. I’d baked way too much last night, but that’s kind of my thing—baking. Weird for a guy, I know, but it just feels like home. Anyway, the smell hit me, and then it hit me what day it was: Christmas Eve.

And Bryn.

Bryn hates Christmas. Like, hates it. No lights, no...

I knew I’d regret it if I didn’t say it right now.

“I love you, James!” I screamed, sobbing by at the sound of his bones crinkling. I tried to move, but I got pulled by the guards. I cried a river for him that night. The sight of him being unconscious made me itch. I twisted my self in the pitter-pattered sheets. I rethinked about the horrific scene every day for the new month.

————-//time skip ...