Life Without Hope: A New Chapter Novels & Stories

To this life I'd never planned but wouldn't trade for anything. Hope. Our hope. And it was just the beginning. *****

However, in this life, even after I stepped aside, they still didn't end up together? "Come home. The Truss family heir position was always meant for you. Your mother cries over that family photo every day. S-She really misses you." Dad's exhausted voice came through the phone, shocking me all over again. In my previous life, I waited a lifetime hoping they would really look at me and love me the way I loved them. Even when I died, that hope never came true. In this life, I had let everything go, yet now they were all scrambling to apologize to me. It was honestly laughable.

“You shouldn’t have left Lizben.” “I didn’t want to but my dad was persistent. You know how he is.” “Oh! Yes I do.” She smiled a little as she remembered those days with Anu. They were like a family. “Why did you leave Soundhope?” “It’s… It’s more complicated than you think.” Ayo kept mute. She didn’t know how to reply to that. “AY!” “Yes, I’m still here.” “I’m sorry about your dad.” “Thanks.” Ayo stood from her seat. “I’ve gotten over that.”

com ]. Quote of The Chapter: "If I Had My Life to Live Over, I Would Find You Sooner So That I Could Love You Longer"

He has already described the grass that grows atop the graves of the dead, the grass that grows from mother's laps and their departed children and old men's heads; their mortal bodies are transformed, it seems, into new kinds of life, and so life goes on even after death. “It’s not your fault, Hope.” I tell her. “I tried so hard to forget everything.” She says. “I thought that my sincerity and honesty would get through to them. But it doesn’t. Everything is just too fucked up. I don’t want this. I don’t want to doubt everyone and everything again. I don’t want that to stop me from being who I am again. I don’t want to be a monster they created me to be. I don’t want to lose my humanity all o

Is he gone again? I sighed. I get up to get ready for school and the first thing I do is to keep my bed in good condition. Last night, I remember as I fell asleep, he stayed. Guess I need to make myself always ready to accept that God always disappears and comes back whenever he likes to. But what if he is not coming back? I feel an ache in my chest, as if I was suffocated by its bitterness. Come now. Wake up. I said to myself, patting my cheeks. You are both in a different world. And you are just a puny human. Forget about that. Try to change the view and feel someone who is more human.

Zoe's POV I hit the enter icon and took a sigh. A sigh that says I am almost done with life. I stared blankly ahead and found nothing interesting. Everything seems dull in my vision. I saved the final draft of the chapter I wrote and closed my laptop. I put it back on my right desk and hug my pillow again. It's been days since I last wrote a chapter of it and I am scared I couldn't finish it within my remaining life expectancy. I should be happy because death is what I want before...but now... I don't want to face it. I want to stay alive...with him.

I didn't wish to open them. Why? I was hoping that everything that took place in that dreadful resort was just another figment of my imagination, Perhaps, another nightmare, just like the ones I have had before. I wished that when I opened my eyes I would be in my bed at my home. Starting to get ready for my daily life-sucking desk job. But the reality was far different than my imagination. I understood that when I slowly opened my eyes. I was disheartened that every horrifying thing I have experienced until now was real as I was still lying under the tree I slept under before.

“What about your parents? Your family, you must be missing them being here…” “My parents are dead.” Lisa said bluntly. “And I don’t have any family. It’s just me. So there’s no one to miss.” She smiled tightly, not wanting to see the same look people always gave her when they heard and wanted to somehow show their sympathy at her loss. “That sounds quite lonely.” Phillip said without thinking and lisa just shrugged. She’d gotten use to being lonely. Lonely was her life and being in this world didn’t make any less so than her own one.

It was a chance to turn a new page and create a narrative untouched by the shadows that had clouded her recent history. Hope became her guiding light, inspiring her to embrace the possibilities that lay ahead. With each passing mile, she envisioned a horizon where she could rediscover joy, find inner peace, and weave a tapestry of happiness unmarred by the struggles of the past. Though the road ahead remained veiled in uncertainty, Hellen clung to the belief that amidst the new beginning awaited the solace and serenity she so ardently sought—a sanctuary where she could finally heal and reclaim the essence of her own life.