Novel & Cerita One Step From Forever

“Twenty-nine days, Kai. I don't even have a shortlist. Just a merger memo and a bunch of texts from numbers I don't know.” I should say something careful here. Ten years of practice, I know exactly how to do the careful thing — keep my voice light, hands still, face doing the friendly, steady version of itself it's always done around her. What comes out instead is, “Marry me.” The room goes quiet. A car alarm goes off outside and stops. Sera's looking at me like I switched languages mid-sentence. “What?” I could take it back. There's an easy version of the next few seconds where I laugh, say I'm kidding, and we go back to being exactly what we've always been.

I don't know if it was a dream or it did happen really when I felt a another wave of tingles run through me as a pair of lips touched my forehead and I heard a soft whisper. "I promise you won't ever cry again, my Eve. I've finally found you and I'll never let you go. Whatever the reason behind your tears are, I'll make sure to find out and this will be the last time they fall from your beautiful eyes. I'll keep my promise I made to you all those years ago. Sweet dreams, my Minnie."

The tiny, folded slip of paper , Ethan Grant’s phone number , had become my personal religion. For fourteen agonizing days, it had lived tucked deep inside the stitching of my uniform apron, a burning coal against my skin. Two weeks. I had survived two weeks of perfect silence, two weeks of scrubbing floors and polishing secrets, pretending the warm pressure of his lips on my cheek had been nothing but a fever dream.

Waiting for the next take. Forever.

One step at a time. Together.

Fully. Forever.

They were later termed the campus couple and got separated very painfully. The incident had left Kieran with a huge scar and he never wanted to let anyone in again. He knew that he would eventually have to get married because his mom would not leave him alone if he doesn't but he wanted to push it as far back as he could. He had been pretty hurt badly by Kim. They planned a life and future together. Everything about their relationship was perfect until Kim dropped the let us break up line on him. "Don't you ever think you can blackmail me into marrying you" Kieran whispered harshly.

“Please forgive me,” he said, touching her cheek. “Forgive you?! I hate you!” Jessica spat, slapping his hand away from her. Prince Deacon thought back to his fated claimed mate a century ago that was also just one-sided, ‘they never seem to understand when it is just one-sided,’ he thought, taking his shaman necklace of his neck and put it around Jessica’s, “you know the hymn, you are free to go,” Prince Deacon said, standing up to leave the room.

During one of the games, Zoe changed seats and sat beside me, quietly squeezing my hand under the table. I gave her a small reassuring smile. Back then, among all of us, Felix and I had been the first couple to get together. Everyone thought we would also be the first to get married. However, six years had passed, and somehow we were still only boyfriend and girlfriend. … By the time the party ended, most of our friends had already left. Only Felix, Zoe, Lucas, and I stayed behind. Zoe pulled me into a hug and whispered softly into my ear. "Sara, no matter what happens, don't wrong yourself for someone else."