One More Step Novels & Stories

Her fingers pressed into the ground. Slowly, She pushed herself up. Her legs shook badly. But she stood. “I’m not done.” She climbed back up. Every movement slower. Harder. More painful. But she didn’t stop. This time,when she stepped onto the beam, She didn’t hesitate. She didn’t think. She just moved. Step. Step. Step. Until, She reached the other side. Her breath came out shaky. “I did it…” But there was no time. “Move!” Lyra snapped.

I said looking out of the door. “Oh, do you fall in love with Italy, or maybe you will be going to find your love here” He chuckled. “The love of my life far away from me, staying in that dark sky looking at me from the sky. Waiting for me to come and join her and our babies” I said looking in the sky. My mind showed me pictures of roses in the sky. “Josh. Please move on. Life gives second chance to everyone, maybe your is here waiting for you” Stephen said.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ONE YEAR LATER TAHITI, FRENCH POLYNESIA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [ K A R A ] “Ry…?”

The voice called againband it made me angry, fueling my determination. “No, I am not weak! Not now, not in the past, not ever!” I screamed, and this time, I could hear my own voice. My hope renewed again, and a smile of relief washed over my face. I kept on pulling, until I could no longer feel the wait pulling me back. Gradually, I put my feet forward, walking slowly. From slow steps, I migrated into normal strides. From normal strides, I migrated into.fast strides, until I was running.

His hands were still on mine, I felt like my skin was burning from the touch and I was hot all over. He saw that I looked the other way so he gently moved my face to look at him, I looked at him with a sigh, “ What is it? Let's watch the movie.” I said, trying to pull my hands away. Then I saw something I hadn't seen, his face twisted up in annoyance as his grip on my arms became more firm. “ It seems you haven't realized that I'm about to be your step father and it's my responsibility to care for you, get that into your head and stop acting like a bitch just because of a one night stand.”

W͟i͟n͟t͟e͟r͟ One step at a time right? Scoooot. Step. Scoooot. Step. See? Not that hard. Really not that hard. Even as I think those words, my body fights against me. Lots of slow, shallow breaths, inching forward until I'm just barely shuffling along. Shuffle. Shimmy, shimmy. Shuffle. I take another slow sliding step forward.

I smiled. Step four was underway. Everything was going perfectly, and no one suspected a thing. It couldn’t be going better. There was very little left before everything could finally end. Now I had to take care of a few more matters, and at last step five could begin after all this chaos. And the good thing was… step five would be devastating.

"We don't have to rush anything we can take everything one step at a time. We have all the time in the world now." I nodded, feeling a little better. "One step at a time." He smiled. "One step at a time."

But still She stepped forward. Slowly. Carefully. Her eyes never leaving his. She reached the doorway. Paused. One step away from freedom. One step away from whatever came next. And then She crossed it.

Adrian said, his eyes gleaming with intensity. Clearly, Adrian was about to make a reckless move. He planned to take a single step and leap five steps ahead. They were on the 145th step, but Adrian aimed to reach the 150th step in one go. If he didn’t, they would never catch up to the two Astrals.