Lily stood up and tried to stay standing, but she was just so nervous. Today was the day. The last day of school, and the day she was going to admit her crush on Vaughan, the prettiest girl in school. She walked through the halls of the school. Someone bumped into her and she dropped her papers. She bent over to pick them up and the person who bumped her also bent over to help her. Their hands bru...

Someplace Hot

The basement always felt like a place outside of time—cool, dim, suspended. Lynn had come to think of it like a snow globe: silent, still, insulated from whatever consequences existed above ground. Here, time didn’t move unless Ernesto said it could.

She was curled into him, her body small against the stretch of his legs as he watched the football game with the volume turned low. H...

Rehan knows he likes Noor. He thinks he knows. He’s not sure yet. But he plans on confessing this mess of feelings to her today. Even with Ayan shooting daggers at the back of his head as he does so.

"Hey, Noor?" he calls out.

Noor pauses her conversation with Nafiza and turns around. "Oh hey, Rehan," she smiles. "What’s up?"

He fiddles with his bag strap. "Can I talk to you?"

Noor notices...

Neil could feel the air thick with the musky scent of earlier sprinkler cycles emanating from each lawn he and Caroline passed. On another night he might have taken the time to ruminate on the nostalgia of the smell, or the enjoy the feel of the cool night air after three hours in the sweaty, close quarters.

Instead his heart was racing, and his thoughts were scrambled in what he assumed was an ...

The sky was the perfect shade of navy blue. It wasn’t quite night, but stars were already beginning to peek through. The dock creaked beneath the two boys as they sat down on the weathered, damp wood. Years of summers, storms, and secrets chipped away at the dock. Will sat next to Caleb, their legs hanging over the edge, sneakers barely skimming the water.

“You ever think about how we always just...

While I’m scrolling on wizz, I see this cute guy and we talk and after a while we become friends blah blah blah. Turns out he lives in my neighborhood so we agree to meet up. We see each other in person and everything hits different. We hang out everyday for a year or two. And the feelings continue getting stronger. So one day he asks me to be his girl and I agree. We date and our relationship is ...

_This article is about the _**_television show_**_.
For the __Authors' book__ owned by __Henry__, see _**_Henry's Once Upon a Time book_**_.
For the book written by Henry, see _**_Once Upon a Time _****_(novel)_**_.
For the __Underworld__ book, see _**_Underworld Once Upon a Time _****_(book)_**_._

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_"It's titled Once Upon a Time and it's the story of us. [...] I wish the world could know the s...

“Do you love her?” the child whispers, staring up at me with wide, innocent eyes.

I feel my lips turn up ruefully at their corners as I glance back to the girl on stage. Spotlights illuminate her shining, heart-shaped face, which I know is specked with freckles and acne scars invisible to the auditorium. Her chin is tilted upwards ever so slightly, her expression proud as a peacock’s as she spi...

Ella’s voice crackled over the phone. “And, John, please- when you get a chance- look over the papers.”

John’s voice dropped as he looked up and down the hallway, instinctively making sure no one else had heard even though her voice was confined to his ear. “I know, I’m sorry, I meant to look at them, it’s just… work.” A pause on the other end of the line. He could hear the stifled sigh.

“I get...

It was a Rainey fall day two people where in the park under a tree sitting on the bench where they first met it’s been years since they seen each other they always loved and cared for each other but never confessed the girl was about to leave to go back to the city and leave her small hometown behind she got up started walking out the man ran straight up to her grabbed her kissed her under they tr...