Short Story 'A Lover's Defiance'

I woke up on the couch, screaming with tears running down my face. I tried to stop yelling, but I couldn’t. If I didn’t stop yelling Sebastian will wake up and then Lin and Vanessa will wake up and be furious with me. Suddenly, I hear footsteps coming from Lin and Vanessa’s room. Oh no, I woke one of them up, I quickly covered my mouth. I must look crazy, a teenage girl sitting on a couch disgustingly sobbing with her hand gripping her hand over her mouth tightly. The person who came out the Lin and V’s room was finally in front and I recognized the person as Vanessa. She sat next to me and swiftly encompassed me into a comforting cuddle position.

During the day, excitement filled Margaret, knowing Andrew would be home later that evening. She wasn’t accustomed to being alone and was surprised Andrew went to the convention instead of sending Sylvia. After preparing a special dinner, she sat down to watch TV. Waking up later, she wondered why he failed to wake her when he came home. “He was probably tired and went on to bed,” she said, under her breath as she went up the upstairs to their bedroom. Opening the door without seeing him in bed, Margaret rushed downstairs, out to the garage

On a hot July night, Vanessa rode her bike over to Harper's house after she ate dinner, so they could finish some homework together. It was Friday evening, and the bike ride over was fairly quiet. It was beginning to get dark outside. When she got to Harpers house, she wasn't greeted at the door with Harper's usual friendly smile and comforting hug. Harper's eyes were cold, and her arms were crossed. "What's wrong Harper?"

Viviana is the daughter of the wealthiest lord in the kingdom of Dragoonus and enjoys the life of a noble lady. She has the opportunity to learn about art, practice her archery and attend school. After she finishes her studies at the University, she plans to become a traveling healer or a professor. However, her world is turned upside down when she saves the life of a man moments away from death. She comes to find out he is her cousin and that he is there to help with the revolt of the nobleman against the king. Knowing the importance of his mission, she does everything she can to help him but comes to find out that he is not being completely truthful with her. In fact, there are many secrets in her family that will change the way she views

“This morning. You had told me you needed to talk to me after breakfast?” The princess frames the sentence as a question, as if maybe she was wrong about her and Dayna’s exchange this morning. “Oh. Yes, but I think we should take a walk first,” Dayna says somberly. The ailing queen is aware of her inconvenient stalling, for she is still identifying exactly what she will convey to her cherished daughter. Thus, Dayna and Sienna gradually made their way toward the elegant flower garden, Sienna attempting to make small talk with her mother every so often, but gave up when she realized just how distracted Dayna had been for the last few

Trees and shrubbery screened the house from view, but Ayla would have recognised any portion of her grandmother Mary’s garden. She had grown up roaming these pathways, enveloped in the scent of these blossoms.

After dinner the night before, the Prince had been called away and Ashella was left to herself. At breakfast, neither the Prince nor the King were in attendance, and she had began to worry that something was wrong. A few hours after breakfast, a servant entered her room and told her the Prince was waiting for her in the garden.

A couple days after, it was the day of the concert and Alex had woke up to a text from Cara, reading. ”Good morning hope your ready cause I know I am. Just wondering when your gonna pick me up? See ya soon.” With a smile on his face, Alex got dressed and was out the door, into the car, and on the way to Cara’s. From there it was all about the concert and all about Cara.

Arrietta and Joe helped Joe’s mom to prepare the food. Levi was talking on the phone with his girlfriend. Sonia and Fidelline were chatting, while Tommy put his arm around Fidelline, listening to them. Della found her prince, it was Joe’s best friend. They both met on the running competition, since they loved running. Everything was back to normal like before. Della found her soulmate, Levi and his girlfriend celebrated their one year anniversary, and Gladys already gave up, leaving Fidelline and Tommy together. Even though they were going to different university, we made promise to keep in touch. We already know how dangerous to make promise. Once you promise, you can’t go back. You must fulfil them no matter what. Because promise is a meaningful word. But for this promise, they didn’t hesitated to make

Soon, Friday, it was here, and Serena almost had to, mentally drag herself to her therapy session. Earlier, she had almost felt like, heading in to town and shopping instead, her mind was kicking and screaming for her to run, her heart, telling her to do the right thing and see it through.

Every day since she arrived at the castle, Rosaline was prepped, polished and pushed into a tight dress. She could barely breathe as she sat waiting at the large dining table. There was a dozen other people at the table, all of them clearly knew the proper etiquette. They were visiting relatives, dukes and duchesses, lords and ladies – all fit in with the interior. Rosaline was a nobody and she never felt so small when she sat near the aristocrats. She felt like an imposter.

Alice kept the same smile upon her face as Chris shifted, visibly uncomfortable as she presented Joshua. The contrast between the two was pretty remarkable, with Chris’s lithe frame not even close to the heavy set figure of Josh. As if on cue, Chris gave a weak, uncertain protest. Not demanding that Josh leave, or that Alice stop this. But a feeble objection, one Alice breezed past like all his other mild ‘challenges’ to her. “It’s fine. In fact, I bet you’ll enjoy tonight.” She gave an overly sweet smile, her eyes locking onto Chris. They said far more then her mouth. ‘You’re gonna do want I want. And you’ll like it’. She kept her eye contact as Josh wrapped his arms around her, making Alice glanced back at her actual lover, enjoying the

In the book, Mary having nothing to do all day goes on and explores the accessible garden. As she learns about the secret garden,

This house had been her fortress of solitude for quite some time. Liz was just now beginning to get her bearings a bit after waking up from her coma some months back. Trying to process what had happened before, as well as the realization she was missing a year of life. Hers, Agnes’, Red’s... it was all quite overwhelming.

A brisk wind ran its fingers through the tall hemlock down by the riverbank, causing it to sway perilously. She sighed as she looked out of the window. The garden was neat and orderly, as was the house – she made sure of that. The little gate at the end of the lawn rattled in the wind, and she noticed the dustbin lid had been blown off. She must see to that. It was 8:15, and Catherine was tidying away the dishes of a breakfast in which they had shared petty formalities, and the marmalade.