Marie: A True Story

Kesepakatan tetaplah kesepakatan. Lalu bagaimana dengan perasaan yang tumbuh seiring dengan berjalannya waktu? Manakah yang harus diutamakan? Kesepakatan? Atau perasaan? Jika perasaan yang diutamakan, lalu bagaimana dengan kesepakatan tersebut? Dan jika kesepakatan yang diutamakan, bagaimana dengan perasaan yang tumbuh tanpa izin dari si pemilik hati?

In my previous life, everything I do to care for myself somehow ends up benefiting my new housekeeper instead. I apply expensive skincare, yet dark spots and fine lines spread across my face, whereas the 45-year-old housekeeper's face becomes silkier. I jog every morning, yet my body only grows heavier and bulkier, while hers becomes slender and toned. When my husband notices the stretch marks on my abdomen, his face twists with disgust, and he never touches me again. "I genuinely can't bring myself to touch you. How can you look worse than Mirabelle when you take such good care of yourself?" My housekeeper looks at me with a sinister smile. A chill crawls up my spine, and the strange feeling makes me fire her on the spot. Yet, as soon as she leaves, I start aging at lightning speed, entering menopause 20 years early and developing diabetes and high blood pressure. I see every doctor I can, but after hanging on for a week, I die from a stroke. When I open my eyes again, I'm back on the day she first reports to work. This time, I push away the royal jelly she sets in front of me with a pleasant smile. "I've been avoiding certain foods lately. You can have it instead."

Jasmine is living a life of hell. Her step father becoming abusive emotionally and physically after the death of her mother. She not only has to deal with him at home, but her fellow students at school. Being bullied and criticized for the lack of clothes she doesn't have. They don't know her step father refuses to buy her anything she needs. Calling her a leech of the earth. Telling her on a daily basis he wishes she had died along side her mother. The only person in her corner is her science teacher Mrs. Mulberry, she see the changes in Jasmines behavior, the marks she tries to hide under her torn clothes. Things take a turn for the worse when Jasmine goes missing for two weeks. Alarming Mrs. Mulberry to call child services. Believing the worst has happened to her. After being put under the microscope Jasmine's step father starts locking her away starving her and barely giving her water to drink out of an applesauce container. In the midst of her agony she meets the new boy at school causing feelings she's never felt before. Will he be her knight in shining armor or will he be the wake of destruction causing her world to crumble more around her.

Allena Maura Mahardian, seorang gadis cantik dan manis yang bekerja di sebuah Cafe di pusat kota Jakarta. Allena adalah karyawan yang sangat rajin dalam bekerja, bahkan ia selalu dipuji oleh pemilik Cafe tersebut. Allena Maura Mahardian adalah gadis yatim piatu, kedua orang tuanya telah meninggal dunia karena sebuah kecelakaan yang direncanakan. Pada saat itu, usianya masih lima belas tahun. Ia sangat sedih mendengar kabar bahwa kedua orang tuanya telah pergi untuk selama-lamanya dan tidak akan kembali lagi. Sejak saat itulah, Allena Maura Mahardian memutuskan untuk mencari pekerjaan dan hidup mandiri karena harta kekayaan kedua orang tuanya telah jatuh ke tangan seorang pria tua sekaligus pembunuh kedua orang tuanya. Setelah dua minggu bekerja di sebuah Cafe, Allena Maura Mahardian kembali mengalami nasib yang sangat buruk. Rekan kerjanya yang sangat membencinya dengan tega menjebak dirinya dan menyerahkannya pada seorang pria yang sangat misterius dan memiliki sifat layaknya seorang iblis. "Kau tidak akan bisa kabur dariku, sayang!" teriak Pria itu. "Aku hanya dijebak dan dijadikan sebagai penebus hutang oleh teman-temanku," ujar Allena Maura Mahardian. "Aku tidak perduli dengan ucapanmu sayang. Kau akan tetap menikah denganku!" tegas Pria itu. "Tolong mengertilah," lirih Allena Maura Mahardian. Air matanya mengalir begitu saja, ia berusaha untuk menolak menikah dengan pria berhati iblis yang berada di hadapannya. "Jangan berbicara lagi sayang. Malam ini juga kita akan menikah jadi persiapkanlah dirimu!" tegas Pria itu. Pria itu pun pergi meninggalkan Allena yang menangis tersedu-sedu. Novel ini akan dilanjut setiap hari

Sebuah hal gila yang Lisa lakukan demi menolong kakak kembarnya lepas dari perjodohan adalah dengan mengorbankan dirinya sendiri. "Pilih antara saya dan Alice"

Martha's life is turned upside down when she starts having terrible and scary dreams that creeps into reality. She thinks she can protect her family from it but she fails repeatedly. How is she going to handle the tragedy?

In the bustling city of New York, Mary Jane Carter lives in a rundown apartment with her mother, Lynn Carter. She works a thousand different jobs just to make ends meet but her major job is a daytime job as a barrister in the biggest café in town- la petite bean. She works very diligently, not paying much attention to the fun of life and the people around her. Ever since her father died life has been hard for both herself and her mother, she vowed to make things better for her mother and she works everyday towards achieving that goal. Ethan Cogsworth on the other hand is a rich CEO born into the wealth of Cogsworth enterprises. Although he tends to be rather introvertive, he used to have a lively frivolous past. By fate or coincidence, his path crosses with Mary Jane’s when he comes to have coffee at the café she works with his best friend Clifford Mann. She catches his eye and he begins to chase after her in hopes of winning her heart. It takes a while but Mary Jane eventually decides to give him a chance. Their seemingly perfect love story is put to the test when she finds out about Ethan’s dreadful past. Can they overcome the wrongs and learn to love each other through their hurt? Or will the truth Mary Jane learns of be the end of their relationship as well as Ethan Cogsworth entire career?....

When we get too much involved in the act of pretending, we lose the idea of knowing the pretense of others. Isn't that how it works? We don't know the acts we do thinking good for the others even to the extent of hurting them to save them from major hurt will cause them to go through much more than we can think of. Sometimes it is not too late to correct the pretenses but sometimes it is late to amend them. Let's see whether it is too late or just in time.

Élisa se faisait de plus en plus discrète ces derniers temps mais je ne m'étais pas dit qu'il se passait quelque chose de grave jusqu'au jour où Jules me révéla qu'il avait vu des bleus sur son corps. Cette révélation changea tout. Je devais sauver celle que j'aimais.

What happens when a nerd falls in love with a play boy? Adriana was a Sixteen year old teenage girl in her final year, she was also a nerd, she was completely introverted as she had no friends, She was being bullied by the class bully but as it turns out she was Rescued by a guy who she fell in love with.