The Beginning And The Friend Novels & Stories

I murmured, she was hell-bent on embarrassing me. "You know, your name starts with A and mine too, isn't this a sign?" Anderson asked teasingly. Boss groaned and separated their hands. "Autumn, this is my unfortunate best friend, Anderson. Anderson, this is the girl I was telling you guys about," he glared at Anderson.

It took Daisy ten years to transform from a humble street vendor into a star investor in the corporate world. I stood by her side for every single one of those ten years. During our darkest year, I threw away every last drop of my self-respect and begged my estranged mother just for twenty dollars to buy us a decent meal. Looking back into Daisy’s heartbroken, tear-filled eyes, I gave her a soft smile and asked just one thing: "On the day the company finally goes public on Nasdaq, will you bring me with you?" She held me close and promised she would. Years later, when her company’s empire was soaring at its absolute peak, I gently brought up my old request once more. She didn't even bot

"I'll be sure to send them in to you before closing hours—if it's not too late." Becky could not believe her eyes. She was on the phone with Mel, pouring out her shocking discovery the moment she'd settled in nice at her office. "He was the one! I don't forget faces, especially the ones you've slept with before." She heard Mel screeched low, then laughed ostentatiously in the background. "Mel, are you alright?" Becky's eyes widened at the reply she got from her friend, and she instantly hung up. No wonder she hadn't been fully concentrated throughout the call.

"What?" I wiped a tear from my eye. "Well..." I smiled warmly at him. "That works too." The children giggled. "But," I continued, "it's much better to start as friends." The boy tilted his head. "Why?" "Because friendship lets you discover who a person really is." I reached for Jason's hand, intertwining our fingers. "When Jason and I first met, we weren't thinking about marriage." I smiled at my husband. "We became partners because we first learned we could trust each other."

On my wedding day, I had just stepped onto the aisle when a ripple of laughter spread through the crowd. "Take it all off, and she's got a body on her! Look at her face, like she's enjoying it!" I turned toward the voices and saw my ex-husband's photos of me blown up across the giant screen. They kept changing, one after another, explicit and impossible to ignore. All around the room, phones were already coming up as people started taking pictures. My hands began to shake. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my mother collapse. Behind Leon Coleman, Allison Fleming slapped her thigh and raised her voice, loud enough for everyone to hear. "Oh, wow. Leon showed these to the guys yesterda

We struggled through the language barrier for what felt like forever before they understood. “You’re saying your friend might be down below the cliff?”

"I love you, mom." I could hear dad yelling in the background. "I love you, too, dad. Talk to you later." Clicking my phone off, I wandered back to my room upstairs to read a couple of chapters in my latest novel. It didn't seem very long after I got swept up in The Hobbit before my phone was ringing once again. It seems I'm just getting increasingly popular these days. "Hello?" I called out as I put my phone on speaker. A hushed voice whispers over the phone, "Ciprian?"

Thin, continuous pain registered belatedly. Originally I would not have been so upset, I told myself it was just a betrayal by a friend and that it was no big deal. But the line called friendship was the one Lena had chosen to cross first. The day we decided to transfer schools together, she pulled me to a bar to drink and celebrate our liberation. Ambiguous lights lingered around us, and I watched the person I had quietly liked for years and felt a little dazed.

“But since I’m feeling generous… here’s a little teaser.” A pause. Then his final words cracked like a match to gasoline: “It all started twenty-five years ago… there were four best friends_”

I carried them out and made sure they got into the ambulance, now all that was left was Jack, Jane, and Avery. “Jack!” I screamed, I had gotten to the door he fainted close to but I couldn't find him. The spell had begun to weaken and I hoped he had gained some consciousness at least so I could find him. “Alpha,” he whispered, a loud cough accompanied his words and I was sure he would spend some time to recover after this. “Alpha,” Jack whispered as I carried him on my back. “Stay awake please,” I begged, he was a close friend, my only friend, and I couldn't bear to lose him.