A young girl name Caily Tallis is bullied at school. Her life is a little black box, every day is the same for her. Teachers who won't see her, brother is ashamed of her, and her mother is all the time on pills. But one night, she had a dream, a very strange dream that changed all her life. From that night, she began to see a shadow. Sometimes it appears at night, sometimes at daytime, sometimes she almost feels it or hears it. What it wants from her? And how to get rid of it? Does she want to get rid of it?
-" Hey, skeleton! Will you go for a date with me ?"
A bunch of laughs crossed all school. I just wish that teachers wouldn't hear it because I still felt a shame that people will know how they call me. Even if I know that everybody know how I am treated, but I still there is a small hope that it is under locked doors.
- "Av Tom is in love with a zombie, how cute". Sahra Tom's girlfriend stood in my way with a big smile on her face and I froze like a statue. I couldn't get away from her. My head was lowered, so I couldn't see her, but I felt her presence very well and knew that something bad will happen. I was their plaything when they were feeling bored. I stopped to breathe, waiting for the worst. It seemed all my body felt uncomfortable. I didn't know where to look or where to keep my hands. I hadn't pockets or books that it would keep them occupied, so I just crossed them to my chest. My all body betrayed me. It felt too tall, my hands too long, my head too big my shoulders too wide, I felt like a robot. Like stranger in my own body.
-"Where are you going, loser?" Mathew Markenson laughed and stopped me from trying go trough from Sahra Johns one of the prettiest girls in school. She had long straight blond hair, and charisma, that could awake a zombie, but not me.
I remember when in school was quarantine, this was the most peaceful days for me, also it was quiet and calm. There were only few children at school, and I was left invisible with them. I didn't notice how invisible I was until Sahra came back with all hugs for them like they were her brothers. A quiet zone became a colorful playground again. Then I understood why she is so popular, and I am a loser. She is a party girl where everybody feels special around her. When she was chatting with those few boys they became so alive, their eyes began to sparkle and all quiet space was gone with laugh and yelping when they put her up on their hands and even shoulders, they cherished her like a goddess.
Mathew Markenson is the smartest boy I know. Also, he is my secret crush. At six grade, he had let me use his notes and even called me with a name, but the same day he took off my one sport shoe and smelled it. He pretended like he was vomiting from bad smell, and all class was laughing. Yes, he was a joker of my class. There wasn't a time when he wouldn't make all class laugh, sometimes even I giggled from his jokes, especially in that time when I wasn't the joke he was telling. With every year his jokes were ruder and it all the time embarrassed me until I lost my identity. In the school I wasn't Caily Tallis. I was skeleton or zombie. It all began when Sahra's friend said that I'm skinny like a skeleton. And it feels like this opinion is the most joyful thing in our school. But the cruelest is Tom, Sahra's boyfriend. He is captain of football and respected not even by kids but also by teachers and my brother.
James pretends that I don't exist. I don't remember when he stopped to speak with me, or maybe it all the time was so, but after our incident with cat he broke me to the end. My beloved black cat named Star did a poop on my algebra book and all class laughed when Tom opened a window in saying save yourself if you can! A zombie opened the mouth, we all going to die from that smell!
In that day James, my brother, slapped his doors to my face. Then the word "skeleton" I heard for the first time not in school but at home. This was the day when I lost my brother. This was the day when I forgot my name too.
-"Why keep waiting, we can already start from here". Tom's voice brought me to reality from my thoughts about my past. Certainly everybody knew that he was bulling me nobody believed that he is asking me for a date especially in his girlfriend presence, but I didn't suspect what he will do next. Tom pushed down my pants really quickly, even his eyes went wide when my pants slipped down. I didn't have a belt which would stop it from slipping. I couldn't react as half school saw my period pad.
-"Evv that is so disgusting." Sahra laughed with tears in her eyes, and of course others followed her. Some were watching at me with pity, but mostly all laughed from my misery. Only my big sweater was keeping from full view, but cameras of the phones had bigger view than human eyes.
In a second, I was recorded. And I still couldn't move. Until I felt Mathew's hand from behind and i turned my blurry eyes to him, he took my pad and threw it on the students, some began to scream and others laugh at the same time. I was numb. My tears were somewhere stuck, I felt that I couldn't scream no matter how bad I wanted. Slowly I had put up my pants and walked home, but soon I felt when somebody cover with splitter my new bag which I bought it yesterday. Just keep going, just keep going home, I repeated to my self. It will be over soon, just one more minute.
I was walking with my hoodie on my head trying to escape, to be invisible in this world, tried to escape from them even when I knew that it was over only one day.
When my mother heard that I missed my class, she was so angry, I tried to say why I don't want to go to school but when I said THAT word that I was bullied she just looked at me like I was alien in her big angry surprised eyes, and then she asked me:
-"Is it a problem that you escaped from school? Is this an excuse from missing your lessons?" Her nostrils went wide when she laughed from such small problems as mine.
" In all times there were bullies and there will be, so what? Just don't pay attention to mean words, they mean nothing. It will all pass, but the bill you will have to pay won't."
-"You don't understand mum" I tried to explain how I felt, but the truth is I didn't know how to tell her everything, I was so embarrassed.
-"No, you don't understand how life works, Caily. Are you missing a leg?" She asked me and I whispered "-no" in guilty that I tried to ask some help.
" Do you missing arm or eye, or maybe you can't hear or speak?" the same dumb question, my all parts of the body are ok. She stood up from her bed, took some drugs with one hand without water, and came closer to me.
- "You know that I am able to speak and hear."
- "Did someone beat you ?" I shook my head in telling the truth, nobody had beat me in all years.
"So what the damn problem, Caily? Some guys use names on you, and you decided that it is end of the world?
-Who are you?" Finally, he stopped the silence. His words were strong, angry, and loud. "-What?" I felt so confused still couldn't let my eyes from his new look and from my environment, everything looked so familiar at the same time everything was very different. He was different, his actions of killing without any emotions made my voice trembling but his voice was loud and powerful. . "-I...TOLD...YOU...WHO... THE FUCK... ARE... YOU...?" With stiff teeth he seemed to lose his patience, slowly and frighteningly, he asked, no, ordered to me, without lifting his eyes from me, with every word he took a step closer to me until I could smell the sweat, dirt smell of his ammunition. His hard chest-like rock was so close that it barely touched my body. I was shivering he was so scary and I still wanted him badly, he is my husband who doesn't recognize me. "-Are you joking with me? How to understand, who am I?" I whispered... I stopped our deep gaze, even though it wasn't easy. -"What's happening here? Where are we? Why are you...." I couldn't finish one of my hundreds of questions when my husband turned his eyes away from me to his men. -"Take that strange "pause from his lips in which I think he tried to think words which could clarify me, his eyes traveled from the top of my head to my legs" bitch, to the cell, that little mouth soon will be open for me. And she will talk as well too."
My ..father" is a strange man and he has some rules. 1. Don't bring to our home any boy or girl. 2. Don't drink or take drugs. 3. Do not take provocate clothes. 3. All the time say with whom you are and where you are. 4. Never walk alone at night. 5. And the last but most important never speak with a vampire. But I broke all rules in one night and find out his secret that Jack who has had grown me was the vampire who killed my mother. I must run... run away from my most precious person because this love born into a grudge.
"Never let anyone treat you like shit!" I learned that the hard way. For three years, I lived with my in-laws. They didn't treat me as their son-in-law but as a slave. I put up with everything because of my wife, Yolanda Lambert. She was the light of my life. Unfortunately, my whole world came crashing down the day I caught my wife cheating on me. I have never been so heartbroken. To have my revenge, I revealed my true identity. I was none other than Liam Hoffman—the heir of a family with trillions of dollars in assets! The Lamberts were utterly shocked after the big reveal. They realized what fools they had been for treating me like trash. My wife even knelt down and begged for my forgiveness. What do you think I did? Did I take her back or made her suffer? Find out!
Natalie used to think she could melt Connor’s icy heart, but she was sorely mistaken. When at last she decided to leave, she discovered that she was pregnant. Even so, she chose to quietly leave his world, prompting Connor to mobilize all of his resources and expand his business to a global scale—all in a bid to find her. But there was no trace of Natalie. Connor slowly spiraled into madness, turning the city upside down and leaving chaos in his wake. Natalie finally surfaced years later, with wealth and power of her own, only to find herself entangled with Connor once again.
"Is it considered betrayal to develop feelings for your best friend's boyfriend? What about when fate intervenes, and he turns out to be your destined mate? You might think it's luck and thank the moon goddess for such a twist of fate. That's what I believed until the love of my life uttered those dreaded words: 'I want a divorce!' As I stared at the pregnancy test in my hands, I realized it was better to keep my secret to myself. My name is Violet, and this is my story."
Elodie took a deep breath and knocked, the sound echoing in the quiet corridor. A moment of silence passed, broken only by the pounding of her heart. Finally, the door snicked open, revealing a surprised Dashiell. 'Can't you see the Do Not Disturb sign? We don't want-' His initial frown quickly morphed into confusion at the sight of his wife. 'What are you doing here?' he demanded. 'Your girlfriend invited me,' Elodie replied, her voice laced with icy calm. She tried to peer past him, but his broad frame blocked the view. A saccharine voice chimed in from within the room. 'Elodie? Oh dear, we didn't mean for you to find out this way. It's just that-' Elodie cut her short. 'Oh please, Selene. Spare me the fake apologies. You wouldn't have sent me all those texts if you didn't want me to know.' Dashiell shifted uncomfortably, his face a mask of annoyance. 'What texts?' Elodie stepped past him, taking in the luxurious suite with a sardonic smile. The king-sized bed, the scattered rose petals, the lingering scent of sex – it all painted a vivid picture of their betrayal. She looked up at Dashiell, her gaze unwavering. 'I want a divorce.' ****** Dashiell lived a life of luxury, surrounded by the best things money could buy. But when a car accident left him vulnerable, he met Elodie, a seemingly ordinary woman who nursed him back to health. Mistaking her for just another employee, Dashiell entered into a loveless marriage with her solely for convenience. However, fate had a different script in store. Elodie, the 'ordinary nurse,' held a secret more precious than any diamond: she was the sole heiress to Northstar, a vast and powerful enterprise. Unaware of her true identity, Dashiell cast her aside when his ex-girlfriend returned, leaving Elodie humiliated. But Elodie was not one to be easily broken. She shed the facade of the meek nurse, reclaiming her rightful inheritance and stepping into the role of Northstar's CEO. Now, the woman Dashiell discarded was the one holding the reins of power. As Elodie thrives in her new role, Dashiell is consumed by regret. He finally sees Elodie for the extraordinary woman she truly is, realising the depth of his mistake. But will his remorse be enough to win back the heart he so carelessly discarded?
"Love is blind!" Lucinda abandoned her beautiful and comfortable life because of a man. She married him and slaved off for him for three long years. One day, the scales finally fell off her eyes. She realized that all her efforts were in vain. Her husband, Nathaniel still treated her like shit. All he cared about was his lover. "Enough is enough! I quit wasting my years with an ungrateful man!" Lucinda's heart was shattered into many pieces, but she summoned up the courage to ask for a divorce. The news caused a stir online! A filthy rich young woman recently got divorced? She was a good catch! Countless CEOs and handsome young men immediately swarmed to her like bees to honey! Nathaniel couldn't take it anymore. He held a press conference and begged with teary eyes, "I love you, Lucinda. I can't live without you. Please come back to me." Would Lucinda give him a second chance? Read to find out!
Joelle thought she could change Adrian's heart after three years of marriage, but she realized too late that it already belonged to another woman. "Give me a baby, and I'll set you free." The day Joelle went into labor, Adrian was traveling with his mistress on his private jet. "I don't care whom you love. My debt is paid. From now on, we have nothing to do with each other." Not long after Joelle left, Adrian found himself begging on his knees. "Please come back to me."