Theresa smiled at him and that was all he needed. Their eyes met and melted into eachothers despite being distanced by a sea of people.

The people were nothing, they thought, for they had been separated by oceans.

As they stumbled around the crowd and clumsily attempted to hold the other in their arms, when their hands finally touched they had never felt so connected.

Theresa smiled again, a sm...

‘Are you my true love?’

The cashier at Hope’s local takeaway scratched the back of his head as he tried to muster up a response. Was he Hope’s true love? Probably not, he knew this, knowing that fact hadn’t stopped him from pining over her for the past 5 years however.

Eli shrugged his shoulders and handed Hope her chips, giving her a weak smile and courteously telling her to have a good day. H...

I think I just met the happiest person in the world.

After all, she smiles. She laughs. She jokes. She does everything a happy person is supposed to do.

But why as she smiles, do her eyes become glassy? Why, as she laughs does her forehead start to sweat? Why, when she jokes, does she have to take a deep breath after?

She’s the happiest person in the world, she has to be. She has the perfect ...

The hands ticked

The nights were hard

The days were long

The papers would bombard

Sweat dripped

Sleep went amiss

Food would dip

As documents ripped

Finally

The day came

Lack of effort not to blame

but worries were in vain

As all there was to proclaim

Were straight A’s to her name...

The dress was blue.

She knew it, Jade knew it, practically everyone in the store knew it. Despite the undisputed evidence Callie just couldn’t surrender her throne.

‘It’s green.’ She swallowed, her voice wavering despite her desperate attempts to sound believable. Her tone was met with several of disapproval with heaves, sighs and tuts across the board.

Jade rolled her eyes, knowing that Cal...

‘If I pay you, will you please pretend to be my friend, just this week?’

Alex was distraught. He gazed into Willow’s eyes as she pleaded, his eyebrows furrowing as he observed the growing frown lines on her pale forehead that was now gathering beads of sweat. At first he thought it might be raining, but one quick look to the sky dampened hope and he soon realised it was Willow’s anxious state tha...

My world is the one whom I would not be in this world without

A world without me is surely one to lose

For such wit, spunk and radiance would be in microscopic amounts

Yet these amounts didn’t grow from nothing

For something was planted, and watered and encouraged

Love was shared and wisdom collected

Influence seeps through the plant as it did when the roots were grown

Those roots are from m...