Not even those eyes-

those deep, glistening eyes

could calm me.

But how could I back out?

He knew I didn’t like heights.

Does he hate me?

“Uhmm- Alek?”, the words slipped from my mouth.

“Yes, Laila”, his warming voice echoed in my head.

“If we don’t make it out alive….

Alek I love you.”

“Laila I’ve loved you from the moment I first saw you!”

I wanted to kiss him. Almost

“Now get up here, w...

“Ugh”, I slump even deeper into my bed.

Pillows everywhere, and empty plate of food beside me and a laptop open to an unfinished essay tilted “The River Nile”.

I hate all-nighters.

And there goes the last sip of my third coffee, great.

I slowly reach out for my phone and check the time. Only 2:47am.

The thing that annoys me most is Kayla, fast asleep it the bed across the room. She is the pe...

“Hi my name is Gabriella Lee and I will be auditioning for the part of Tracey”, I exhale.

This was it. My whole broadway carrier depended on this one audition.

“Ok, you can start when you’re ready”, the casting director replied with a genuine smile.

I stare into the endless rows of empty red chairs. I was only a tiny dot on the stage.

“Ahem”, I mumble sounding a lot less confident then attende...

“It was meant to be for you. I only ever wanted it to be for you”, his voice echoed in my head.

We both stood there, only a few centimetres apart. It’s all so still, quiet. The soft wind brushed my ankles. Why did I feel safe? The alleyway was tight, crisp moonlight shown down gently on his dark hair. I pause.

“If it was only meant to be for me, why did you share it with the whole world?”

The g...

“Snap!”, Justin’s hand makes a thunderous bang as he slams it against the table.

This is my fifth year working as a babysitter and I’ve looked after many different kids, but Justin is definitely my favourite.

His parents are already ten minutes late.

“Audrey again, again!”, it’s hard to resist his cute little freckles.

I shuffled two even piles of cards and placed them gently on the table. More...

I have never been here before. A long decking above a still lake wasn’t what I imagined when Annie asked me to hang out. Normally I would organise everything, we would always meet at my house or the forest. This was different. I had a funny feeling about this place. It was dark and quiet, I almost didn’t feel safe. Annie said she would me me here at 7:30pm, she’s five minutes late. A wave of stres...

“Wait-“, I swear my heart skipped a beat. I had a feeling he was going to ask me.

I turned my head slowly. For a moment it was silent, just me and those deep blue eyes.

“Uhm, Annalise, I-I”, he froze.

It was dark, the silver moonlight gently brushed his his chestnut brown hair.

It was perfect, almost.

“I like you, no I just don’t like you, I love you”, his calming voice made me melt.

“And I u...

We were married 6 years. Since the moment I first looked into his eyes, I just knew that he was the one. Boy was I wrong. 3 years in he started to act different. After I started to feel the he didn’t love me the way he used to, he started to hurt me. Now I’m just so done with it.

All these years he’s had power over me, but now I’m the one holding the knife. Under the soft moonlight, I have him p...

The white sheets of the hospital bed cover my skinny body. My family gathered around me, tears in their eyes. The clock on the wall is ticking. Am I running out of time? I catch a glimpse of the doctor, their worried face scared me. My baby sister holds my hand, her touch gives me warmth. Grandma is waiting for me.

“Mum, dad, sissy, I love you”, I kept fighting for them, but I’m just out of ener...

I lay there, my head sinking into my silk pillow and my eyes shut. The constant upbeat song of my alarm echos in my head as I stretch out my arms and prepare for the blinding light of the sun. I want to go back to sleep. I slowly roll out of bed onto the clean floor of my room and eventually get up. My morning routine is always the same, get up, eat breakfast, go to school, there’s nothing special...