Training To Love

This book gathers different love stories, yes, love stories. All these stories that I collected over time, that were told to me by friends, acquaintances, relatives and others from my own imagination ink. And perhaps, there is some coincidence.

Sakit jantung, nama penyakit yang bisa membuat banyak orang berpikir mengerikan. Audrey, di diagnosa jantung bocor. Penyakit yang dialaminya sejak bayi, orang tua Audrey tidak mau menjalani operasi dengan alasan trauma, trauma kakak Audrey meninggal dengan penyakit yang sama dan lima hari setelah operasi dinyatakan berhasil. Audrey menjalin hubungan dengan Eza, hubungan mereka tidak berjalan lancar. Ezra yang ingin menikah dengan Audrey tidak direstui orang tuanya dengan alasan penyakit yang dibawa Audrey. Kehadiran Wisnu membuat Audrey melupakan masalah itu, Wisnu langsung melamar Audrey tanpa peduli dengan penyakitnya. Akankah Audrey menerima lamaran Wisnu? Bagaimana reaksi keluarga Wisnu?

Love is a complex being. Something that not all of the human race can fully grasp. Alyssa Aveya, a girl controlled by her sister. Made into something she never wanted to be just to let her voice be heard. Her home life isn't the best either, with her mother and father always yelling and screaming at one another and her mom being a user isn't helping the situation either. Come along on this journey of self worth and destruction. ︎︎︎ Sneak peek: "You said you loved me enough to see past the flaws!" She yells at him. His eyes bore burning holes into her tender skin. In a split moment she finds herself pinned to the wall, lips moving in sync with his. Pushing him away she says "You can't always do this when we need to talk." "But you love me doing this." He says touching me in places where polite society would think outrageous. Making my brain go hazy, making me succumb to his will.

Waking up to a sudden change in your life, how do you think you'd cope? Same goes for Jasmine Kane whose life changed overnight because of a simple Marble. Problem arises when the owner of the Marble comes to find her and she falls in love with him and puts herself in more danger. Now she has to choose between saving her own life and Dying to save the one she loves....is their love really the one to die for? Will it be a Tragic Ending or A Happy Ending?

Pierre Paul Abutu gives a humorous, fascinating and dispassionate narration of the unique intimate and romantic events of his life from teenage to adolescence, and into the early stages of his adult life. This narration revolves around the lives, and relationships of sixteen ladies with whom he shared happy, intimate, eventful and evergreen moments of his life with. These love affairs occur in Pierre Abutu’s life, at his university, the Augustine Nnamani Campus, Agbani, in Enugu Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Akwa Ibom State and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Due to his religious beliefs, personal convictions, personal principles, metaphysical and supernatural predictions and postulations, the media, intellectual and literary effects in his life, most of these affairs either ended abruptly or amicably. These love affairs also reveal the negative attitudes, traits and deceptive machinations of these girls and ladies. Even though certain unpleasant and resultant effects were never intended at any particular stage, or with any of these girls and ladies, one thing was very clear: each love affair was and would always be evergreen to Pierre Abutu.

Two years ago, his happy life with his children was destroyed because of the actions of the Takahashi's family. Then, Kim Jae came back with a different appearance only to take revenge on the Takahashi Family, who had ruined the life of Kim Jeje, the son of Mr. Kim Jae. Kim Jae came all the way to Japan just to find the whereabouts of the Takahashi Family. Nana Takahashi a.k.a Kenkyo Takahashi who is currently named Kenkyo, is Kim Jae's main target for joining the Takahashi Family. How is Kim Jae's struggle to conquer the Takahashi girls's heart? Will Kim Jae really take revenge or will he fall for Kenkyo Takahashi's charms?

Malia, 19 ans, décide de prendre sa vie en main. Entre études et soirées, elle n'arrive pas à se focaliser sur elle-même. La boxe va l'aider à surmonter ses peurs mais va aussi lui faire rencontrer quatre garçons. Ces garçons, plus beaux les uns que les autres, sont dangereux. Mais Malia a-t-elle conscience de ce danger ? Va-t-elle leur donner sa confiance ?

Almira Larasati seorang gadis cantik dan sederhana yang bekerja sebagai perawat disebuah rumah sakit terkenal di Jakarta. Ia harus rela kehilangan pekerjaan yang sangat dicintainya atas permintaan Ayah tirinya –Yacob Lucero-- untuk menggantikan kakak tirinya –Amanda Lucero—menikah dengan seorang laki-laki yang tidak ia kenal dan mempunyai sifat yang dingin, arogan serta temperamental. Nicolas Brahmantyo, CEO muda, tampan dan berkarisma yang banyak digemari dan menjadi idaman semua wanita, merupakan salah satu pewaris sebuah perusahaan Brahma Group, harus menerima kenyataan pahit bahwa calon istrinya, wanita yang ia cintai pergi meninggalkannya setelah tahu bahwa ia tidak bisa berjalan lagi, sehingga membuatnya frustasi dan menutup diri dari yang namanya ‘wanita'. Ayah tirinya memberikan Almira sebagai pengganti Amanda untuk menikah dengan Nicolas. Namun dibalik itu Dokter Yacob Lucero memiliki perjanjian antara dirinya dengan keluarga Brahmantyo yang Almira sendiri tidak mengetahuinya. Apa yang akan terjadi jika sebuah pernikahan yang dilakukan bukan didasari cinta melainkan didasari dengan perjanjian? Karena Cinta Tanpa Syarat.

They say such love is unacceptable, They call it stained, They tell us how to live our lives, Our feelings, decisions, and love they Forbade. Meet Mayra, an 18-year-old girl who knows nothing but torture in her life. She doesn't know who her family was and what she did to be abandoned. The only thing she knows is her life is destined to be in a filthy prostitute house. But is it? Meet Ved, the billionaire who seems to be the most eligible bachelor of the city but carries a lot of weight from his past. Not everything that is broken can be seen... What will happen when they meet? Will they accept this forbidden love? Let's find out...

Have you ever experienced the love that strikes at the most unexpected place, like the arrow of cupid went haywire, or like the love potion you made for someone landed in someone else's hand. How Columbus must have felt when he started in search of a sea route to the East Indies, but ended up discovering America? I mean, it was even better, isn't it? That's what going to happen to our Jia Davis, a 23 year old 'full of life' girl. Her life revolves around her friends and her adventures. Her friends love her with their life. So is she ready to face the world of love after her first unfortunate experience, or she will do what she is been doing, that is 'staying away from the mess' and as she always says 'love is waste of time'. But that doesn't stop her from crushing on the most handsome man she had met. Is he the one who will make her believe in love, or maybe someone...