Could Have Been Us Novels & Stories

" Leo and I are trying to have kids, so sex every night ," " I hope you guys get your wish ," " I hope so today ," She says and I hear a lit hint of sadness behind voice " you can't do you? ," She hangs up the phone and I sigh. She'll tell me when she's ready. If I guessed it right and she can't have kids, then I wished she had my womb and I had hers. If I didn't get pregnant, my relationship with Clay and Ace would have still been great. I would be getting punished and rewarded oh and fucked regularly

I sat down and whispered to the empty room, “I could have fixed us.” No answer came. The apartment kept its silence and I sat with the truth that maybe I had already made it impossible.

For the family that could have been if David had been different. If I had been different. If the world had been kinder. But it wasn't. And we weren't. And now I had to figure out how to move forward.

I should have gone to another town, and maybe we would still be golden. Densberry is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

Us. And the fragile hope that maybe… just maybe… he was right. That this was just another storm. And we would survive it... Somehow

The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it. ~Clarence Darrow Raphael It had been a good weekend, one I hadn’t experienced in the longest time and it was all because of one person. Small as she was, she held so much power and could turn even the shittest of days into the best with only her words. Over the past 3 days we had spoken, I found myself smiling and chuckling at memories of our late night conversations that would flash in my mind every now and then. I rarely smiled or was happy to talk to someone the way I did Lyra.

She never imagined I had gone abroad instead. Still, this worked out fine for her. At least I was gone from Liam's life for good. "Liam, since Khloe's fine, let's go home." She reached for his arm, but he didn't seem to hear her. He turned and walked straight out the door. … At Malva International Airport, I was so weak I could barely stand. In the end, I was diagnosed with a severe case of pneumonia and sent straight into quarantine. During those grueling days, I drifted in and out of feverish dreams, my mind melting into a haze.

If she hadn't, the whole thing would've been a disaster! I just shrugged and said calmly, "My bad." He looked stunned, like he hadn't expected that reaction from me. He stammered for a second, but he had nothing else to say.

And I wasn’t sure how much time I had left. “How soon can you narrow down the neighborhood?” I asked, my voice tight. “I’m working on it. Shouldn’t be more than a few hours.” Not fast enough. I cut the call and shoved my phone into my pocket, my mind already racing ahead. I had my visa. Thank God I had applied for it before I met Anna, before my life had spiraled into this chaos. It was still valid. Which meant there was nothing stopping me from getting on a flight tonight.

Living, enjoying their life, having children, getting old. "That's not your world anymore..." Vincent said sounding serious. "You belong to our world now." "We can't change the fact that i was a human..." She laid back and looked at the sky. "Sometimes I think, what if i couldn't get these powers... I would have been dead." She looked at Vincent when he hovered over her. "You are not going to die, ever... I won't let that happen... Do you understand me?" He looked at her deadly. "You scares me sometimes..."