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I Will Not Break

Author: Lunar Dawn
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-15 02:22:57
Owen never looked back but Gary did, blowing me a kiss with a wink. I zipped my bag back, fighting the tears. I wouldn’t let them see me cry, I would not let them see me break.

What hurt the most was the confirmation that he saw me the same way I saw myself. It didn’t matter if Courtney paraded me around the entire school. The fact of the matter was, I didn’t belong with them, around them. They were the cool kids, the rich kids, the ones that would run this town in the next fifteen to twenty years. I was a nobody. Less than a nobody, actually. The daughter of a dead prostitute that chose getting high to the point that she caused her own death over loving her two children.

I was one of the last ones out the door but found Courtney waiting for me. The smile on her face told me she was oblivious and hadn’t heard anything Gary and Owen had said. Not that it would have mattered but in a way, I was glad she hadn’t. A look of sympathy would have more than likely caused the dam to break and I
Lunar Dawn

Aurora is having a very emotional first day :( If you would like to "Meet the Teachers" I will have a collage up on my FB page: Author Lunar Dawn. I have pictures of the characters as I have envisioned them in my mind, too.

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  • Whispers of the Heart   Lazy Pool Afternoon

    The entire class erupted in applause and it took Mrs. Muncy a few minutes to get us all calmed back down, even though she was smiling herself. Who doesn’t love the idea of getting out of school or work early? Plus, this wasn’t just something that could be ignored. You had to have water to run a school from the bathrooms to the cafeteria and cooking to the water fountains.Owen glanced over at me with a huge grin and a wink. I loved that grin. I loved that wink. I loved that I could see the gears turning and he was already looking forward to more time together at his house this afternoon. I hope he remembered that Nate was part of those plans but I’m sure he did. He was just happy to have more time out of school with me. With practice also canceled, that meant we really wouldn’t have to leave once we got back in. I was so hoping to persuade him to go swimming because that pool had been calling to me since the moment I saw it while driving up that first night. Plus, the heat index was s

  • Whispers of the Heart   All is Fair in Love and War

    My cell alarm sounded at six the next morning and as I reached for it, I realized two things. One, I didn’t think I had ever slept that well in my entire life. Two, I was still in Owen’s arms and hadn’t left his bed last night. For a brief second I panicked but realized that Nate would have come looking for me if he had woken up in the middle of the night.Owen opened one eye, gave me a half smile and a kiss on the forehead before rolling over, mumbling something to the effect that he had his own alarm and he would see me later. I couldn’t help but giggle as I climbed out of his bed and left him to go back to sleep. I hope he knew what he was talking about and did have his alarm set. If not, I’d find out when I was waking him last minute and he was scrambling around, in a hurry to not be late.Back inside the room I was supposed to have stayed in last night, Nate was sound asleep, cheek flat down on the mattress and didn’t look at all disturbed during the night. I gathered my outfit f

  • Whispers of the Heart   Learning the Truth

    I gasped. “Oh my God. What did you say?”“I asked him to repeat himself and he did. He even laughed about it, taunting me. He wanted me to get mad and throw a punch or something but I managed to hold it together. He then went on to say that she was a good lay and that everyone on the team had a taste of her at one time or another. Then, he runs back and gets back in position and just leaves me there with those words running through my head.”“That’s disgusting.”“Yep, disgusting isn’t the word for it, really. But as you can imagine, he gets in my head. Bad. Like there’s no shaking it. I want to hit something, I want to scream. I want to march off of the field right then and there. March right over to the sidelines, where she is cheering for their team by the way, and confront her but I can’t. Gary asks me what is going on after I throw away the next two downs and we are forced to punt. As we are going off the field, the coach is yelling at me but nothing registers. Gary pulls me aside

  • Whispers of the Heart   His Past

    “Have you had sex with anyone else before?”We were currently laying in the bed and my back was to his front, with him snuggling against me as we talked. He didn’t answer immediately so I scooted forward and sat up in the bed, turning to him. He couldn't make eye contact with me, another sign that I was not going to like what I was about to hear.“I will not lie to you but I need to know that you will be okay with hearing this. I don’t want to lose you over this.”My heart sank but I was the one that asked, the one that wanted to know. I didn’t want something from his past to later blindside me so I felt I deserved to know everything now.“Owen, you won’t lose me over something you did in the past. Just like I can’t change who my mother was, you cannot change things you have done in the past that you may now regret. Neither of us can. But it’s something that I don’t want to be this big elephant in the room between us or something that could potentially cause problems later because I do

  • Whispers of the Heart   Nate is Moody

    He grumbled, he complained, he pouted but in the end when he saw that I was not going to change my mind, he climbed out of the foam pit, standing there with his arms crossed and a scowl on his face. It was one of the rare times to bring out the ‘Mom’ version of Aurora as I bent down to his level and made him look me in the eyes.“Nate, you don’t want to ruin your fun time this evening by being mad that we have to stop now. Owen has been good enough to let you come down here and play but if this is how you will act every time it is over, I am not gonna be so ready to let you come back again. I know it is fun and you want to keep playing but it is almost your bedtime. We will have to get our bath and read your bedtime story. All of that takes time and you don’t want to be grumpy and sleepy at school tomorrow. Now, tell Owen ‘thank you’ for letting you play tonight and let’s get upstairs and get ready to take a bath before you get in trouble and can’t come back tomorrow.”“Thank you, Owen

  • Whispers of the Heart   Every Kid's Dream

    “WOW!” was all I heard from Nate before he tore into the room with a giggle. Owen reached for me and pulled me to him, giving me a very sound kiss that completely distracted me from even looking and seeing what had Nate so excited about.Once Owen released me and I turned my attention back to the room itself, I was just as excited and elated as Nate was. The entire space was like any arcade or play place one would ever visit as a child on those very rare special occasions. The space of the entire room couldn’t have been any less than a thousand square feet. Wooden support beams were scattered throughout the space like typical reinforcements in a basement and it had the panel block ceilings like you would see in office buildings and hospitals with the big rectangle panel light panes. The walls were all painted a deep charcoal gray with light gray plush carpeting in part of the area and just solid concrete painted the same color in the other half.The carpeted area was more narrow but th

  • Whispers of the Heart   Dinner and a Tour

    Owen was right that Nate and I would both love the hibachi. From the experience to the food, everything was wonderful. Nate was completely infatuated and amazed by the entire experience and was telling me all about how he wanted to learn how to do that when he got bigger so Owen may have just helped create a monster because I now know where Nate will want to eat anytime I ask.Owen, being the gentleman, wouldn’t let me pay a dime on the meal, not even the tip. I had wanted to go by Phil’s house for more clothes and Owen was fine with it so he stopped there first.I explained to Nate on the way where his dad was and that his dad had told me this morning the reason he was so sick yesterday. Never having had a grandparent, Nate really didn’t even realize what that was or what he was really missing in his life by not having one, either. So, understandably, he wasn’t upset to find out that his grandmother had passed away because she was a stranger to him.He didn’t ask why we weren’t stayin

  • Whispers of the Heart   Dinner Plans

    I left the office feeling really good about my talk with Sherry. I was so happy that I was able to improve her mood and help her to understand the current situation with Phil. I would definitely try my best to do what I could whenever Phil came back to push him toward her because he definitely needed to understand that he had burned all his other bridges and he’d better appreciation someone like her. If he liked her enough to sleep with her, regardless of his dumbass reasons, he needed to give her a chance to make him happy.I watched Owen’s face light up from over top of Vanessa’s head whenever I walked through the door of the Photography classroom. She turned at the same time that Courtney and Bethany gave me a wave.“I knew it had to be you or at least it had better be you,” Vanessa teased. “If he was suddenly looking at me like that, Danny was gonna kick his ass and if he was looking at any other girl like that, I was gonna be the one to do it! But I knew only one woman could make

  • Whispers of the Heart   Talk with Sherry

    “What did you need to talk to me about, Aurora?”“I had wanted to ask about how things were going with you and Phil but seeing how sad you look, I am now more worried about you and making sure you are okay.”She sighed. “I am, I guess. This is actually about him. I thought we hit if off and were gonna start talking, start dating even but he has completely ghosted me, Aurora. Now, I am left feeling like this cheap, one night stand.” She covered her face with her hands. “Plus, I am a professional here, an adult and I should not even be discussing things like this with you.”“Hey, I asked.” I assured her. “I only asked because I care and I wanted to know how things were going. I never imagined he hadn’t reached back out to you yet but now that I think about everything that is going on, I just realized that I have been so caught up in my own little world with Owen that you probably have no idea of anything going on.”“What do you mean? What is going on? I don’t know anything except I was a

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