Short Story

So much can change within a few hours, we were just exchanging wishes of being with one another. Within that time something changed, I didn’t know if being with him was the right thing. In the moment I didn’t realize that I had been making a mistake.. I couldn’t take back what I had said and his mind was set. It was over, just like that. I immediately regret my idiotic decision, I’d lost the one person I could confide in. He gave me advice, helped me up when I was down, I loved him, he was my best friend. I had known him since the seventh grade and we were freshman in high school then. I felt like I knew him inside and out while he knew me the same way. I lost

We were friends but I could only see him on the bus. I still didn’t know his name and every time he told me, I couldn’t remember it. The third time I

He’d collect little things from you that you has seemingly forgotten - a ponytail that slipped from your wrist, a pencil left behind on your desk. He’d take it, treasuring it in private.

“Twenty-one! The Chief’s vote makes it twenty-one! And by God if that ain’t a majority I’ll eat my hat!” “Yippee,” Cheswick yells. The other Acutes are coming across toward me. “The meeting was closed,” she says. Her smile is still there, but the back of her neck as she walks out of the day room and into the Nurses’ Station, is red and swelling like she’ll blow apart any second.

We wait and wait for about another hour or so. Henry still hasn’t returned and we are starting to get worried. I look over at Bertie to see how he was doing. He looked bad, he had cut his face next his noes on his cheek while we were running out of there, and the blood had dried on his cold face. He honestly looked like crap. He looked worried, cold, hungry, and pale. I wasn't in the greatest shape myself. I was terrified at, whatever that thing was. It was grey and left this, goo trail behind it as it walked.

Mh'ale wasn't like the other stars. He was dark, cold, with no light of own to brighten his way through life. The others, so beautiful and radiant and brimming with energy, had no love for the freakish thing that inhabited the Nothing with them. Mh'ale envied and despised them in equal measure, and would weep and wail miserably when they taunted him, the tears puddling and pooling all around. The stars paid no heed to his misery; they were too perfect to cry, and didn't understand why the ugly little star was drowning himself. He only ever felt happy when he was bathed in light, but no matter how hard he begged, the stars refused to share the gifts that came to them so naturally. They teased and taunted him, allowing slight flickers

“Oh come on Mar, it's not dangerous. There's literally nothing down here,” whispered Kai as she continued walking, and Martin sighed, slowly taking another step down.

had been more active in forging a relationship with him. Due to our shared, strong connection to

Castiel fiddles with the zipper on his computer bag. The woman next to him huffs, then finally slides out of her seat when a gentleman gives her the space to enter the aisle. No one bothers to do the same for Castiel, but that’s fine. He’ll wait. The longer he can put this off, the better.

Even though I was not running that day of the big 2017 Stockbridge Invitational, I had butterflies in my stomach. I was probably just about as nervous as the others on my team.

''What’s happening?'' Worriedly asked Iris as Barry’s head tilted to his right before his whole body was leaning forward in his chair.

But the breathtaking landscape below strips away any guilt. A rushing kaleidoscope of color and life, the vivid greens of the trees, the blue swirls of the lakes, and the turbulent whites of the river rapids balance and contrast to paint the perfect picture. The crisp mountain air madly whistling past welcomes me in its breezy embrace. The scents and sounds rising from the unspoiled forest seduces and tempts. I wish that I had come sooner. She was right: this could be the most beautiful place on Earth.

Jordan and I had decided to go to the restaurant near by to eat. Jordan is my boyfriend of 3 years and lately he has been very awkward. A good awkward. He is not a person to be awkward, but I led it slide. The food came and we both ordered fried rice and chicken. The topic that had been raised was travelling and the places we would love to go. Once we had finished eating, it was the moment where both Jordan and I reached for the bill to pay for the food at The Polar Clove in London, England. A classic Chinese restaurant with the popular noodle dish topped with vegetables and garnishes. Jordan, being very attentive reached for the receipt and quickly took out the money to pay. A waiter walked by and picked up the money and receipt and gave

My life changed recently. I went on a trip to Greece with some kids from my school. It was absolutely breathtaking but the best part about it wasn't where I was, it was who I was with. I had never talked to him before that trip but when I did speak to him it felt like we’d been good friends for many years. the first night I talked to him we were at a bar, drinking alpha (Greece’s national beer). The first words I remember him speaking to me was “I don’t mean to be rude but what’s your name” I chuckled inside and my friend who had been friends with him laughed loudly. I told him my name and we continued from there. that fateful night in greece easily became one of the best because he was involved. My group of friends and some extra along with him roamed the streets of athens pleasantly drunk. we explored stores that night looking for snacks and tossed jokes about shows we liked. We made it back to the hotel before our 11 o’clock curfew.

Of course, as the person I was and possibly am now, my heart wanted to get closer to him. It was weird, wanting to get closer to a boy I never really understood. Perhaps it was my brain talking or the sorrow bursting through me, but I 'd never met a boy who seemed as lost as he was. With all the negativity coming his way, all I saw was a boy who didn 't talk to anybody in between classes. Or the boy who sat alone during lunch. That was the boy I saw, so I had thought—with all my happiness I had installed with me— perhaps I could allow him to borrow some of mine.