The Space Between Us Novels & Stories

Real. And for the first time. that messiness felt beautiful. Because perfection. perfect unity, perfect separation, perfect stability. all led to stillness. But this. this constant adjustment. meant the system was alive. Truly alive. I exhaled slowly. Then said quietly. “The space between us matters.” A pause. Then. “Yes.” Not just the connection. Not just the difference. The space that allowed both to exist together. Without collapse. Without possession. Without fear becoming permanent.

Those nights on the bed, we might have been laying side by side, but there had been a chasm in the space between us. I needed to close that gap, one way or the other, once and for all.

everything continues around us kids laughing balloons popping someone calling for more snacks a camera flash strobing in the distance but none of it lands. There’s something passing between us. Something small, but sharp. unspoken but loud.

“I don’t know if I want it yet. I want the work. I’m not sure I want the distance.” “Then maybe you need to figure out which one matters more,” I said, pouring the water over the tea leaves. We carried our mugs back to the sofa and sat side by side, not touching but close enough to feel the other’s presence. “I think what scares me,” I said after a while, “is not that you’d go. It’s that we’d get used to it. That the space between us would stop feeling temporary and start feeling normal.” “That’s not something I’d let happen,” he said.

Mae mumbled, wiping the corner of her lips and with a small sigh she added, "He'll come back after finding out that it's not the bathroom." They surely were siblings. I somehow miss their laughs and jokes together with Ethan's drunkard ass. I laughed at my own thoughts. I walked inside. The room was eloped by total silence, all I could hear was the soft humming of the air cooler along as my feet padded along the carpeted floor. "May I ask something, if you don't mind?" She closed the door and walked towards me looking at me intently, giving me a lopsided grin. "So, why did you guys break up?" she added, running her fingers into her hair.

"Your loss, try not to eat each other," She bit out, sounding mad. With that, she stomped out of class with her crew in tow, leaving only the both of us in the classroom. When they were gone, he let out a breath and shook his head. All I could do was stare. What just happened? "Khalil?" I said, confused. "Are you sure you don't want to change? We hate each other, don't we?" He ignored me, writing something on a sticky note. When he was done, he gave me the paper and I saw his address. Still confused, I looked up at him and he squinted.

He said I was an internal mess and did not know what to say. All I could do was wait for him to answer. He knocked off his chair and brought his face close to mine. We are so close to each other yet the misunderstandings made us distant and I guess it was time to clear them. He then spoke "So miss innocent. Ring a bell when I say 'James'..."

“ he don’t love me “ I painfully spoke. It felt difficult to breath and felt like rocks in my throat refusing for me to swallow nor let out. It was stuck and I wanted to be free from all the problems. “ I am sorry “ She pulled me in her arms and hugged me as I finally feeling the touch of someone mine, broke down. I held her arm, crying out loudly with my face buried in her forearms. “ shhh. I am here “ . . . I sat on the bed after changing my clothes as aurora kneeled down in front of me. She held my hands in hers and squeezed them tightly. “ Adeline “ She called my name making me look at her. I let out a deep sigh feeling my heart clenching at the thoughts but I pushed them back. Well, tri

That day changed everything in my life. Forever.    Sorry for the late update. Annalise character was hard writing because she was a complex one. Thank you for your patience. Epilogue Next. I can't believe Love Between Us is ending soon.. It has been a lovely journey with you guys. I am so grateful.

A sound that could have meant anything or nothing. Then he sat up straight again, deliberately widening that suffocating distance between us. Putting space back where it belonged. "Nothing."