It's Okay To Start Over Novels & Stories

He pushed them apart roughly and ran past me as he scooted off. I watched him run off in embarrassment silently and smiled. We were just getting started, Zach Livingston.

"Gardeenia is a good place to start over." I nodded without replying. Yes, start over. No matter what one had been through, life would always move forward.

He had nothing left to lose. My professor shook his head as he spoke. "I used to think Baron was dependable. I didn't expect him to turn out like this. It's a good thing you left when you did." I nodded with a faint smile. "It's better to rely on yourself than anyone else." Three years later, while I was working on the design of a train station, the security guard handed me a letter. There were only two words written inside. [I'm sorry.] I knew who it was from, but it did not matter anymore.

Tomorrow, I’d start over. I left everything that wasn’t

I patted her hand and advised, "Lauren, don't overthink it. Don't hold onto this feeling in your heart all the time. You can only start anew when you let it go." Lauren looked at me with a wry smile and replied, "Start anew? I have never thought about starting anew. My life is a mess, and where is the opportunity to start over?"

The meaning starting over entailed a second chance for him-to release this pain that had burdened me so long. "Okay," I said finally, a small tugging smile on my lips. "But if we are starting over, then I do not want any more secrets. No more half-truths.” "Deal," he said, his smile spreading. He leaned in farther and brushed a stray piece of hair from my face. It was such a gentle touch that made my heart skitter. For the first time in a very long while, I felt at peace. It had been days since the sun rose and set, casting its warm rays sprawling through all, till finally I did think that we really could move ahead: the burden of the past shed off, with only the promise of something new wor

“Let’s end things and start all over again.” “Huh?” “I can’t let go of an opportunity to be with you but with such a crazy history behind us, we need to start all over again.” Drake didn’t look disturbed anymore. He had one of his brows perked as he tried to make sense of her words. “How are we going to do that?”

“Let’s start all over again…right from the beginning. Let me date you properly?” “Start over?” I raised my eyebrows. “How?” “Instead of telling you…let me show you.” He said. “Let me show you that I can become the better person. Let me show you just how much I love you.” I thought about it for a second, but only to tease him, before a smile spread on my lips and I felt all my worries and fears vanishing slowly. “Okay.” I nodded. “Let’s start over.”

“Alright. Then we’re really starting from zero.” Alaric studied me for a long moment. Then, slowly, the corners of his mouth lifted. Not a smirk. Not a teasing grin. But a smile filled with certainty. “Yeah,” he said, his voice deep, steady. “From zero.” And at that moment, I knew. We were finally ready to move forward. *** I thought that once we decided to start over, everything would feel lighter. I thought that by leaving the past behind, I would finally be able to breathe easier. But life doesn’t work that way.

But the thought of starting over with someone new felt daunting and uncertain. "Sam..." I began, my voice trembling with uncertainty. "I appreciate your concern and your honesty, but it's not that simple. Moving on and finding someone new is easier said than done. It's hard to let go of the familiar and take a leap into the unknown." Sam nodded understandingly, his eyes filled with empathy. "I understand that it's scary," he said softly. "But sometimes, the only way to find true happiness is by taking that leap of faith and giving yourself a chance.