Standing Next To You Novels & Stories

he said quietly, but firmly, standing beside her. “I won't leave any of your sides,” she added.

"You got this!" He's close to his brother, so close I can't tell the difference between the two of them anymore. He's breathing down his neck. Rowan sits next to me, her fingers clasped tightly over her mouth. I can tell she doesn't want to cheer for either of them. She's in a bad spot. "It's okay, I'll cheer loud enough for the both of us." She grins, and we start jumping up and down, as they get closer to us.

he suddenly said. As always. I nodded, but I took Maddix's long sleeve that I was wearing earlier and put it on. "Seji said that it's your free day today. Are you enjoying it there? Is someone trying to hit on you?" He asked while I was busy wearing it. Before I could speak, I looked up when someone stood next to me and sat in the chair next to me. I bit my lower lip. Kael doesn't see Maddix, who is now sitting next to me, because the camera is centred on me.

I'm just about to pass the building when I look right on impulse and see two figures right next to the dormitory directly across from my building. My feet slow to a stop as I squint to try to have a better look at who's there. I'm always alert whenever it comes to people following me, as I'm still paranoid about that thing that will happen. I see two figures still, standing close. The mist clears a little bit, like some cruel twist of fate, and I see who the two people are. They're standing close, their bodies pressed flush against each other. My eyes widen when I realize what I'm staring at.

Then she made a small notation in the margin and moved to the next field. Nora was standing slightly behind my left shoulder, close enough that if I'd taken half a step back, I would've bumped into her. She didn't say anything. Didn't touch my arm or lean in to offer something quiet — she just stayed where she was, I didn't have to look at her to know she wasn't going anywhere.

But while I'm still here, while we're still enjoying it, I'll stay by her side and love her secretly. As my thoughts circle around my head, I feel the dip of the couch next to me. I don't have to guess who it is. There is something in her presence, something that I've latched myself into for me to know that she is beside me. And besides, there’s only two of us here. If someone else stood next to me, I might have peed and shit in my own pants from fear.

"Then what are you asking?" He pulled back, meeting my eyes with an intensity that stole my breath. "I'm asking you to trust me enough to let me stand beside you. Not in front. Not behind. Beside. We're partners, Angie. Equals. When you fall, I catch you. When I stumble, you steady me. That's how this works." He took my hand and pressed it to my own chest, right over my heart.

These two are polar opposites but totally made for each other. Ben drinks a tea together with me, telling me he’ll stand at my side no matter what I need or decide to do. That’s good because for my plan, I will need him at my side. I’m not sure how it will work out, so I need to know that just in case something happens, I will have a backup plan. Rubbing the back of my neck nervously, I turn to the three others.

He stood in front of me, barely acknowledging the man that stood beside me, and he opened his mouth. “Ruby a word.”

"Do you understand how that sounds? From the person who is supposed to be beside me?" "I am beside you," he said, and his voice had the quiet force of something genuinely meant. "I have been beside you through everything. I stood in that coronation hall and I have been in this palace and I have been watching every corridor and every face and every inconsistency because I am not willing to let anything happen to you. That is what beside you looks like for me. That is how I do it." "I need you to do it differently," I said. He looked at me for a long moment.