Off The Deep End Novels & Stories

I had just put my phone down when the screen lit up again. Several messages from an unknown number came in. They were intimate videos of Rachel and Samuel. There were also photos of Rachel with Samuel and our son, Morgan, as well as even more messages after that. [Samuel said the person he let down the most is me. He said he owes me a family.] [Cindy Wright, you took my place for a decade. It's time to give it back.] How laughable.

"I'll be fine. You should hurry up and go. It's not nice to be late." Eventually, Zeke's car drove off. I submitted my paperwork and checked the date on my phone. After doing some calculations, I realized that I was leaving the country in five days. After I returned home, I began scrolling through social media. I came across a video of Howard Carter kissing his girlfriend passionately. After the happy couple had their moment, the crowd began to urge Zeke and Scarlett to do the same. "You have a wonderful woman beside you, Zeke. You should seize the opportunity when it presents itself to you," Howard told Zeke with a smile. He turned to look at Scarlett as he spoke.

She approached Julian politely and thanked him. “Mr. Rogers, thank you for the trouble. Things have been chaotic at home. Sorry you had to see this.” Julian waved dismissively with a smile. “Family matters are always difficult. We understand.” He glanced at me before turning to leave with the others. I clenched my fists until my nails dug into my palms. As they turned around, a deep, oppressive voice echoed from outside the door. “Looks like after all these years away, you people have forgotten who really runs this place.”

Kyrian's Pov "Day five," Mark said into the microphone, his voice bouncing off every wall in the athletics centre. "For the final event of the playbook Olympics we'll be having the endurance relay." James leaned in. "And for those of you who thought the art challenge was the hard one—" "It was not the hard one." "It was genuinely not the hard one." Mark repeated. The course was set up across the centre floor—stations marked out in sequence, each one worse than the last. Plank holds, wall sits. A balance platform at the far end that nobody was looking at directly, a timed run through the final stretch that connected everything.

Nadia’s POV Me and Luca take off starting with a slow jog and slowly speed up until we’re at a good pace. We have been running for almost an hour and we’re coming up on the cliff. As we approach the cliff I can hear voices a little way in front of us. “Saturn we aren’t supposed to go in the water it’s dangerous” I hear a little girl say “Oh come on I’m only by the edge I’m not going to jump” the girl I’m assuming is Saturn responds

If I had any chance of seeing him-just a glimpse, just enough to confirm he wasn't dead or drowning or curled up somewhere hating me-it would be there. Declan perked up instantly. "Wendy's? Say less. I'm starving." Jackson groaned. "Dude, you're always starving." "Because I'm a growing man," Declan argued, puffing his chest out. "You're five-eight," Zichen deadpanned. "I'm five-nine!" "Sure," Zichen said, unbothered. I shut my locker with a soft thud. "Anyway, I'm buying. Wendy's special on me."

He offered knowing fully well that was my weak spot. I liked it whenever Jason carried me, nothing deep, I just found it fun and thrilling plus I get to feel his calloused chest and biceps, every SLake girl's dream. I stared out at the half naked teenagers and adults having a good time swimming with friends and kids in the ocean but making sure they weren't so far from the shore, if those little kids could do it then I suppose... "Fine, only because it's on my bucket list."

Her every move went noticed by him. She stared into the river, wondering if it was a good idea, what she was about to do. Her breathing was rapid, she could hear it in her ears, till the was only thing she could hear was the fast hammering in her chest. The rain drops drenched her from her hair to her vans. She was tired of it all, tired of humanity, tired of trying. She wanted peace and if the dark, scary looking waters would give her that, then so be it. She wasn't going to back out now, it was too late for that.

I didn’t want him to feel responsible for my personal matters. His voice brightened with unmistakable joy. "Really? That’s wonderful! The Order welcomes you at any time. When will you depart? A week after the ceremony? You can settle your affairs first." My eyes fell to the calendar. The full moon date was circled. It was supposed to be the end of happiness. Now it was the countdown to my departure. "No. I will leave on the day of the Marking Ceremony." On that day, I will sever every connection between Raelor and me.

"Why are there three pools?" "Well, one is for people still learning to swim. The pool isn't that deep," She explained, pointing at the one at the right corner. "This one is really deep, almost 15 feet,"She added, pointing to the one closer to us. "The pool at the end is for kids." "Wow, they are so nice," I commented, looking in awe. "Can you swim?" She inquired with a certain curiosity in her eyes. "Yeah, I can," I nodded.