The Disappointments Novels & Stories

Graham raised her grizzled old voice. “I’m sorry that my use of profanities offends your delicate sensibilities. But this is crap, and you know it. I refuse to tutor this subhuman species that lacks enough neurons to even form a synapse. And I’ll be sure Walters knows that too.” I scoffed, storming out. “Suit yourself, Miss Summers.” I faintly heard Mrs. Graham as I left.

That's why she can't stop crying even though she doesn't want to cry like that and be pitiful in the first place. "Alright, then. Let's just ditch grandpa and make him utterly sad and disappointed. Is that what you want?" Dionysus sat on the floor, while leaning on the bathroom's door. Some employees of the City Hall were eyeing him weirdly for some unknown reason but he just couldn't care at all.

No warmth. He shoved her away. Luna panicked and crawled after him, grabbing at his pant leg. He crushed her fingers beneath his shoe, making her cry out in pain. "Get the hell away from me. The only woman I’ll ever call my wife is Autumn." Zachary stepped over her and walked straight to me. His eyes were filled with regret and grief. "Babe, I’m sorry. I didn’t know… I didn’t mean to hurt you. Please don’t be too sad about the baby. We’re still young. We’ll have another chance."

She cheered on and I could only smile, it still hurts me deeply. “I love you too. I'll talk to you later,” I said, hanging up the call right after. As I dropped the phone, my hands dug right into my head, pulling as hard as I could. I wanted to forget everything. I was feeling a mix of emotions–fear, guilt and disappointment. Fear, because I didn't know how to move on from this. Guilt, because I wondered if I was the problem at some point. And disappointment, because it was so easy for him to move on from what he claimed was lifelong.

he added coldly and walked away. "I am sorry man, I shouldn't have said that...no matter what, that's....that's very low of me," Raphael apologized remorsefully. Ever since his broken marriage followed by Cara's disappearance, Damien had been even more colder, more aloof and more frightening than before, he rarely smiled, rarely conversed and had even become more ruthless in business than before. "Show yourself out when you are done," he repeated impatiently and walked out. Raphael slumped back on the couch and ran a hand through his hair frustratingly.

Sneering, she then asked, "It's just one time, and you're snapping already? Have you thought about all the times you've disappointed Sophie over the last five years? "You're supposed to be a twenty-eight-year-old adult, but you can't even handle crushed hopes. Sophie is just a child, but she had to deal with you disappointing her time and time again, hurting her little heart. "Have you considered how devastated she was every time you broke your promise with her?" Henry's furious visage stiffened. It really was the first time he had felt hope, only to be disappointed. Now that he felt it himself, he remembered the five years Tina spoke of, and memories that he had forgotten resurfaced.

Disappointed? His question resonates, crueler now, in the silence of my skull. My hand slaps the mirror, next to that unfamiliar face. The surface is icy. I hate the confusion he sowed. I hate even more the small, shameful, vibrating part of me that answers yes. Yes, there was disappointment. A dizzying drop when he said "Nothing."

“Better not. It’s shameful to have a daughter like that.” “Calvin,” my mother warned, but it was too late. The damage was done. Tears blurred my vision. They didn’t believe me. They didn’t care that Steve was my first. I looked at my mother, silently begging for comfort, but she only shook her head. “You disappointed us, Czes. Did I fail as a mother?” The crack in my chest widened. “No, Mommy… please…” I dropped to my knees beside her, clinging to her legs.

I responded still not noticing the person I'm talking too. "My fiancé won't stop bugging me to set a date for our wedding and I'm still not sure I want to marry her and I found out she can't have kids because she did two damn abortion already" he said sounding stressful. "Can you believe she hid that from me?" He added "Oh I am sorry, lets drink our pain away..... No no no lets get out of here and do something together to erase the awful pain" I said this time staring in his direction. I was completely drunk but he look very handsome with a charming smile. He was sipping on a beer which seems like his forth one because three empty bottle on the counter In front of him.

Davina's Pov:- Days went on, Mr. Thomas began to do tests on her regularly and I was growing very curious to know what he has to say about April's condition. I want to know what happened to her, and how I can help her to recover from this. Day by day I was growing more curious and also disappointed. I was extremely frustrated because of Arthur. I couldn't control my anger when I don't see anything from him whenever I look at my phone as I hear it ringing, but when I look at it, that small hope inside me gets crushed.