His blood ushes out into the young woman’s hands. She has tears running down her youthful cheekbones, smearing the mask of paint on her face. Blackness smears on her under eyes.

She shouts and screams for help, trying to hold the blood in from what she was taught. “Adelio, stay with me.” She says between gasping cries. His pale, deathly skin, his brown eyes slowly losing his spark, his pursed li...

I can’t say it now.

I can’t say it ever.

This is humiliating!

I want it to be, but this isn’t love in the making.

Fantasizing will get my nowhere.

My confidence is the size of a hair.

What if you don’t actually care?

What if you think I’m joking?

What if you’re joking?

It’s constant mixed signals.

I can’t determine anything anymore.

I want it to be love.

I want you.

I want to tell you.

Bu...

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

but how do I say I love you to a person that may not love me back?

Even if he doesn’t feel the same, even if he does,

how do I say my feelings.

My feelings for someone who is to good for me,

everything I could ever want or need plus more.

I know I will regret it if I don’t say it now,

I know no matter what we will miss eachother,

if the day eve...

"I’m not in the mood," I exhale, feeling the heavy figure against my chest as his hands explore my body. They freeze. He shifts his weight and takes my hand in his, soothing.

I let myself drown in his ocean eyes full of sweetness and adoration. He softly kisses my cheek.

"Thank you for telling me" he reassures.

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

"Good, I want you to talk to me." ...

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

My voice echoing through the air, making my words loud and ugly.

“You are such a piece of shit. You know that?!” He begans to storm down the cellar to his room, until I grab his arm. “I know you want to just run away but just-“ I paused for a moment.

“Listen, for the love of god, listen to me even if you hate me and don’t care to listen just.” M...

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

“I can't. You know I can't…”

“Because you promised?” I yell hysterically. We'd been over this many times, and I respected him for it, but I could not keep going back and forth.

So I tell him, “This needs to end, Finn.”

I feel tears leaking from my eyes, falling down my cheeks as he says the words that I had feared for weeks. But as he says ...

I knew I’d regret it if I didn’t say it right now. Yet somehow my nerves felt even more on edge once I did. I’ve said it to her a dozen times before, though she probably never heard me, why does it have to feel so different now?

“You love me?” She replied finally. She was staring at me, not in her usual curious way but with genuine shock. Had she really not known this whole time?

I took in a shar...

TW: Violence, death

Part two—POV: The fool

Never in my life did I believe joy was meant for someone like me—someone who has stained this world with blood and grief. I have killed. I have bled. I have caused suffering. And yet, here it is. A sliver of joy, carefully hidden away, meant for me.

_Her_.

The most beautiful soul I’ve ever laid eyes on, the only one I wish to look at. I can’t even recall...

“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, ...