10 Year Gap Novels & Stories

Whatever he felt, it wasn’t pleasant. "We've reviewed your resume, and quite frankly, it's impressive for someone so young," Ms. Collins began. "A Master's in Business Administration, top of your class and worked briefly with the American Express branch in Arizona. Though I see a gap in your employment history for the last two years." "Yes, I was living abroad, taking time to broaden my horizons. During that time, I worked for a small local finance company." "Why didn't you mention it in your CV?" Ms. Collins raised her brows inquisitively.

Madison Ten Years Later… The first thing you learn about heartbreak is that time doesn’t erase anything. People love to say it does. They say give it a few years; you’ll forget, you’ll move on. Ten years later, I can confirm that’s complete bullshit. Time doesn’t erase anything. It doesn’t wipe away memories or dull the moments that carved themselves deepest into your chest. It just teaches you how to live around the damage. How to build a life that functions normally even with the cracks still running through it.

×Jamie× It has been ten years since I last saw Christian Martin. Ten years of no calls, messages or visits. Ten years of being absent on every birthday, school activitiy and holiday. Ten years of watching my mom break down and lose hope each passing day as she waited for him to return. It was weird seeing him here tonight. The face that I could vaguely remember was now vivid and I didn't know what to do. Many thoughts swirled about in my mind as the hours flew by and sleep didn't have the chance to linger.

It may not be wonderful enough to repair our poor broken hearts but it was sure wonderful enough to captivate our drive to try and find someone who can pick the pieces up and mend it. “17?” I huffed under my breath. Hot smoke came out of my mouth and it gradually disappeared into thin air. The sound of those numbers coming out of this teenager’s mouth was just disgusting to hear. It made me feel like an ancient person even when there’s only a nine-year gap between us. That’s almost a ten-year gap, a decade per se, and that gap seemed to translate as if I’ve been alive since the time of the dinosaurs. Or maybe I was just exaggerating but that’s how I feel.

Elbows resting on the table now, fully leaned in. I could still tell the truth. I could finally say it. Instead, the lie forms before I even think it through. “I’ve been on a long break.” His brow lifts, not impressed. “A break?” I nod. “Yeah. Like... a retreat. Travel. Off-grid.” He folds his arms. “What kind of break knocks you off the grid for two years, A?” I lift my shoulders in a practised shrug. “I fell in love.” He raises both brows.

"Before I went abroad, Graham and I made a ten-year promise. If I returned after ten years, he would marry me. "I thought it was just something we said at the time. But I never imagined… he'd really wait ten years for me. "So now I'm back—to keep my promise."

“Right now, Alex?” “Yeah!” Alex remained silent for a few moments, then as if he had come to a heavy decision, he said, “Lily, we have been apart for too long, almost ten years. Ten years is long enough to change someone entirely, we…” Lily was so nervous, she felt as if the air had frozen. Her fingers that were wrapped around her phone had turned pale. She thought to herself several times, please, please don’t say the words she did not want to hear.

Maybe he even broke up with that special woman always in his heart because he could not control his crazy emotions back then. Gloria stepped into the quiet elevator alone. As the doors closed, she started reminiscing and thinking back about the little young Lukas who had grown up right in front of her eyes. She remembered him clearly all the way until he was a fifteen-year-old teenager. That was the very last time Gloria had seen him for a full ten long years—until his sudden dramatic return to the family recently.

“I thought nothing would surprise you anymore. What’s this?” “My apology. That was rude of me. Even too crass for comfort. Nothing is wrong, Sienna. It was just…unexpected. I thought your entanglement with a model you hired was one thing. But the age gap is quite another issue. Almost twelve years, is it?” I nodded. He was right. I was about to turn thirty in a month.

' "Let's face it, the chances of me and him working out are pretty much nonexistent. Like he said, we're from two different worlds. How could we ever mesh? Oh, and I totally spaced on telling you, but he's like... eleven years older than me." As Roslyn spilled her heart out, Evangeline was baffled at what kind of guy would be blind to the awesomeness of her bestie. When she heard about the eleven-year age gap, it clicked. "You know how they say three years is enough for a generation gap? You guys are eleven years apart; you're practically from different planets. With that huge of an age difference, can you really stick it out? I mean, when you were toddling around in diapers, he was already