A World Without You Novels & Stories

It was quiet. not empty. not broken. completely, the world held. no fractures. no instability. no threat. everything functioned. everything existed. everything continued. Zayden stood in the center of it alone. His hand still raised like he could reach something that was no longer there. “Aria…” The word came out low. unsteady because now there was nothing to answer it. the bond gone. not weakened. not hidden. ended. His chest tightened because that wasn’t silence. that was absence. the kind that doesn’t echo. the kind that doesn’t return. the kind that never existed here at all.

"Not everything in this world is black and white. You chose marriage and disappointed me in the process, but it doesn't mean you did wrong. It's just a decision you made in your life. It's not something we can dictate." Without affection, all decisions made in this world are selfish. No one path is absolutely or definitively right or wrong.

It started small, like a spark, then grew, filling every nerve, every fibre of her being. “Go! Go now, Clara!” her grandmother urged, her eyes glistening with tears and pride. Before Clara could question it, the warmth exploded outward. Time itself seemed to shiver. The firelight warped and stretched, the screams became distant echoes, and the ground beneath her feet disappeared. One moment, she was on scorched earth. The next, she was falling. The world around her blurred, colours and shapes twisting in impossible ways. She felt weightless, suspended between moments, suspended between worlds. Then, as suddenly, as it began, it ended.

Maybe we were never meant to last forever. I just looked at Gianna coldly and said, "Gianna, whatever we had is in the same state as these photos now. It can never be restored to how it was." Then, I shook her off and left the cafe. Ingrid was waiting for me at the door. We exchanged looks and smiled at each other. The cold fall wind began to blow, and the smell of pumpkin spice filled the air with a sweet, spicy scent. It was a beautiful day, and I believed that my future was going to be just as beautiful.

As the door shut behind me, their laughter echoed, a stark contrast to the silence of my own heart. The morning after the engagement party, I found myself staring at my phone screen. Chester sent over a plane ticket. Then, another message popped up. [Stay safe out there. I'm waiting for you to come home.] That extra bit of tenderness would have once had me replying in an instant, maybe even saving a screenshot to swoon over later, tucked away in my bed, eagerly anticipating his next caring check-in. However, things changed. I barely gave the message a second glance before I hit delete and walked away, suitcase in hand, without a backward glance.

It's crazy that she drives me crazy. I picked up my phone and went through the playlist, maybe I would see any that would interest me, or maybe I would see any that would address how I am feeling.. Standing on the platform Watching you go It's like no other pain I've ever known To love someone so much To have no control You said, "I want to see the world" And I said, "Go" But I think I'm lost without you I just feel crushed without you I've been strong for so long

Thanks, brain, I guess. I can hear footsteps coming at me and shouts of bitch you will never get away with this! As I turn to the corner, my ears are suddenly surrounded by faint chatters from people getting louder. A song is still ringing through my earphones as Agon screamed: THE WORLD IS CRUEL THE WORLD IS UNFAIR BUT WE SHOULDN'T BLAME THE WORLD FOR ITS PEOPLE THAT NEVER CARED NATIONS SHALL UNITE BUT WE CREATED WARS I CAN'T BELIEVE MOST OF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD

i won't beg his ass no more To hubby: I love you Connel, -i know about you and Shamika - think about what you want in your life, i'll wait for you but for now I'm gon do my job, don't call me nor text me....Britteny is with my mother, if you need to see her, check with my mom...i'll always love you and no I'm not gon divorce you or anything of that sort just think about what you want in life coz I won't be played for a fool!

The evening dawns on me, As for life, it laughs at me, I try not to see but am hopeless. "But I am alright, Since the pain is from you," I would hold it in my heart, As the last thing you left behind." "Your thoughts keep coming back to my head, I try to stop them but it's useless, You still live in my head, like a beautiful dream, Yet, to disappear from my world." "I wish you could see, what you mean to me, I wish you could see the world through my eyes. I wish you knew how painful it is to live without you,

Right before I turned off my phone, I'd received one last message from the wedding planner. [Mr. Duggan, all the paperwork has been taken care of.] I replied: [Thank you.] Then I powered it down. Outside, the sea of clouds stretched on like an endless, silent snowfall. I closed my eyes. For the first time, I realized how light it felt—not having to be the steady one. Not having to be praised for being obedient.