Only When Its Us Novels & Stories

she seethed with rage “If you were paying any attention to where you were going you would not have hit me. You should be grateful it was my back and not a tree.” “Why you -”

He chuckled and shook his head. "I’m not measuring my worth here, Sydney. I’m purely asking—why Hade and not me?" His eyes widened, and I chuckled, watching him hit by realization. Then it hit me too. Does comparing feel similar to questioning worth? The book said the right people show up. The right people care—not only when life is convenient, but when it’s difficult, messy, and aching all over. The right people take chances. They choose you as confidently as you choose them.

Not now, not ever. ***

No, not just at me. At us.

It's Us. Forever and Always.

Us. Everything.

Jeffrey , Ellen's fiancee told her. She agreed and applied for the University, heard from the one in the next city and was enrolled. "my mom and I need to travel outside the country to go see some relatives ,and at the same time use that to see how the compy over there is thriving and also use it as our vacation to relax, will you love to come along babe?", Jeffrey asked his fiancee. " I would have loved to but my schooling now wouldn't allow me, and the babies as well" Ellen said with a disappointed face.

"Oh fuck indeed." I heard the whole class giggle softly and looked up with a blush to see my irritated teacher's face. Had I said that out loud? "Why are you just joining us, Mr. Daniels?" She asked strictly and I massaged my temple. "I had to lock the locker room-" I started and a girl suddenly sucked in her breath, "Wow, are you back to being the school's coach now?" People started cheering and I looked at them, shaking my head, "No no, Naza is on a break-"

And not just in this moment. I'm doing this for us. •

For a moment, there was only this. Only us.