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The Smile She Gives You

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"I can't do this anymore", I whisper, a single tear rolling down my cheek. I am looking at the floor and try desperately to keep my voice steady. "I gave my best this term. I really did. I studied more than ever, trained harder, tried my best with friends and family... I gave everything I have and I did not give up. But it's not working. It's just not working... I just cannot do it anymore... I cannot do any of it... I- I-... I just want to-"
The tears start flowing faster now as my voice breaks. My whole body is quivering and I feel small and vulnerable like I have always been in the past couple of months. 
But now something is different. A warm hand touches my shoulder, showing me that I am not alone anymore.

Astoria Wells is a senior high school student studying by the IB diploma program at a prestigious school in London. She trains in an elite swim team in Islington and is close to being accepted into the London Roar Academy. The coming year is extremely important to Astoria. However, as fate would have it, it's not going quite as planned. Astoria finds herself facing many challenges. Suddenly her everyday life starts breaking apart and she plunges into a deep abyss. It's pitch black. There is no light in sight. The girl is overwhelmed with frustration, suffering, and despair. This is a journey through dark valleys and obscure caves. But it is also a path of self-discovery and healing.
Yes, her smile fades... but it reappears again and changes her forever.All Rights Reserved

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Who's Guilty? by Alicia_007

"w-who are you?" I'm about to turn the lights on when someone covered my mouth with his hand and the other hand pulling me in the wait. With my heart almost out of my chest, I try to free myself but he's just too strong for me to do anything. I try to scream but I'm disappointed when a weak and tired scream escapes my lips, nobody will here me. He's too strong for me to escape, I feel very small. He's holding me tightly as if he wants to break me, right here and now. He pushes me and I end up hitting my head against this hard wall and my vision blurs. It hurts. So much. I no longer have the strength to do anything, I just stay on the ground. The room is so dark that I don't even know who he is. "Shit." I hear him say in a low voice. Who is he? He walks forward and kneels down in front of me, caressing my chin with his hand and just like that, there's darkness everywhere and I can't feel or hear anything. ~~~~ Cassie is a sweet and pretty seventeen year old girl, doing her last year in highschool. Being sexually assaulted by a person she has never seen, her life becomes harder and bitter when she becomes pregnant after that. Being a strong girl she is, she starts finding clues to lead her to the person behind everything. Will she succeeded? ~~~~ "Mommy? My friends were asking me where my daddy is.. Who is he and why doesn't he come to visit me?" "You don't need a daddy sweetheart, I'm here."

Once Upon A Bus Ride by iamtheeamani

Morgan Hall is your average teenager. That is if you consider having a billionaire CEO of a world renowned company as a dad and a fashion designer of one of the most famous lines in the world as a mother average. Let's not leave out her singer/actress of a sister who's taking the world by storm. Morgan was no doubt born with a giant silver spoon in her mouth, but her life isn't always as perfect as it seems. Aaron Smith, quiet and reserved, admired my many for his good looks. He doesn't seem to associate himself with many people. Which is why it's so strange when he finds himself becoming friends with the rich, little, daddy's girl...at least that's what he thinks of her. Fate and chance are at work when they cross paths one afternoon on a bus. Throw in crazy lives and secret identities, and you get one hell of a ride on the road to self discovery. What Morgan doesn't know is that one stubborn move could land her a new friend, and possibly even more. ~~~~~ "It's amazing...magical even, how hearing one song can take you back to a single moment or a series of them, just so you can live it all over again," he said. "I think that's the best part about music. It's like time travel you know? Going back to the past, or sometimes even visualizing the future...what we could be." "What about the sad moments?" I asked softly. "Nobody wants to re-live those." "Maybe not, but that's the entirety of it," he answered, raising his hand to brush away the hair from my face before tucking it behind my ear. "There's always good in the bad, and bad in the good. Balance." His fingers trailed down my arm, sending shock waves through me. "Can I tell you something?" I asked softly. The corner of his lips curved upwards in a small smile. "You can tell me anything."

Wait, You're Gay Too?! [BoyXBoy] by Apocalyptice

Nathan, a shy boy, is a closet gay. No one knows besides people close to him. He figures he'll never find a person who will love him. That is, until his best friend invites him to a party. He goes and meets Jake, the loud and proud gay werewolf who doesn't care about what others think. Being the Alpha's son, he's enjoying the partying scene before he has to take responsibility and become Alpha himself. Something just clicks between the two, and they immediately fall in love . Within the lessons of loving yourself and self-worth, what will happen when they are under attack, and the enemy is right beside them? Just read it... Please.. It's a good story, I promise! I really can't do these descriptions well!

Can you heal my wounds? by butterfly-224

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A Nᴇᴡ Bᴇɢɪɴɴɪɴɢ | ✓ by Arixdepp

Jane Victoria Davis, a 18 years old female, that just graduated highschool. She been doing dancing and gymnastic since childhood and still do, She is a famous tiktok creator for her flexibility. She have over 15 million followers. She is also a Instagram model with over 3 million. She took dancing as her career. She hadn't had time to spend with her friends that lived in LA. So she called and texted them daily, they havent seen each other for the pass 3 months. Her friends had a spear room for her in their group house along with 6 other people she's close to. She currently lives in a house with her mother who she is really close to, Her stepfather how she kinda hated for trying to play the role as a father in her life, Her Step sister that is a year younger than her and they are quite best buds she also graduated with her. So yea, she gets along with the females but not the males. Her father was hit by a car protecting me, he shoved me out the way getting hit instead. So he got hurt because of me, I still blame my self for it. It was my fault, even if I was only 14 at the time, it was my birthday. But yet, my mother tried her best to keep me happy during the month of my brithday, it was useless, I felt pain. Like I'm the reason this shit happened. Yet my 18th brithday was the best, I got the best thing I could've ask for, so on I been better. Still something was telling me not to feel so free just yet, Something happened that affected me and all the people that I cared for, the people I held close to me. I took the risk of death for friends. I risked my self of my problems, the reason he was here was because of me, I'm not letting anybody get hurt because of my mistakes any longer. I'm taking the consequences for my actions. For somebody from my pass caught up with me. A mistake, He wasn't suppose to be in my life at all, I didn't need him or want him any longer but he wanted me still. ____________ Started - January 26th 2021 Ended - May 23rd 2021

Altered by LuellaOpal

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Who's Guilty?

"w-who are you?" I'm about to turn the lights on when someone covered my mouth with his hand and the other hand pulling me in the wait. With my heart almost out of my chest, I try to free myself but he's just too strong for me to do anything. I try to scream but I'm disappointed when a weak and tired scream escapes my lips, nobody will here me. He's too strong for me to escape, I feel very small. He's holding me tightly as if he wants to break me, right here and now. He pushes me and I end up hitting my head against this hard wall and my vision blurs. It hurts. So much. I no longer have the strength to do anything, I just stay on the ground. The room is so dark that I don't even know who he is. "Shit." I hear him say in a low voice. Who is he? He walks forward and kneels down in front of me, caressing my chin with his hand and just like that, there's darkness everywhere and I can't feel or hear anything. Cassie is a sweet and pretty seventeen year old girl, doing her last year in highschool. Being sexually assaulted by a person she has never seen, her life becomes harder and bitter when she becomes pregnant after that. Being a strong girl she is, she starts finding clues to lead her to the person behind everything. Will she succeeded? "Mommy? My friends were asking me where my daddy is.. Who is he and why doesn't he come to visit me?" "You don't need a daddy sweetheart, I'm here."