Could Have Been Us Novels & Stories

Could we all have been wrong? ------------------

Could it be… how could it be? ----

This could have gone so much worse. This should have gone so much worse. But somehow, impossibly, it hadn't.

Maybe, just maybe, we could find a way to coexist without killing each other. Vote and comment guys

But now it has vanquished. But perhaps, they could make it work?

Maybe. Just maybe... Starting over here wouldn't be impossible after all.

I refused the offer. The hands on the steering wheel went stiff. She almost ran through a red light. "What about the beach? Or the restaurant you've always wanted to go to?" She kept bringing up ideas to wind down. I struck down every single one of them. … When we were about to get out of the car, the look of awkwardness and guilt on her face was gone. It was replaced by doubt and displeasure. I saw that look, and I said, "Maybe we should check out our old home."

Ava called it love but I called it weakness. For a while, Ava and I were happy and content. We had frequent midnight meetings in safe houses, coded messages, brief reunions in our dark, chaotic world. She teased the devil out of me and made me believe that I could maybe, just maybe, walk away from it all. We talked of going to Rome and breeding wolves. That dream was ruined when she was killed.

TIANA We had been walking on the beach for some time. The only sound being that of the waves kissing the shore with a soft hiss. Taking a deep breath I found myself feeling grateful at the fact I was here, there had been a point in my life I thought I wouldn't make it. That I'd never get the opportunity to travel the world like I once dreamed whispering these secrets quietly into my pillow or . . . start a family.