Write a romance where your character falls in love with the last person they expected to.

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“Last one” by Floraine Thwin

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First day after summer holidays, every student came over to Seisho academy. Sakura are blooming and fallen petals all over the road. Some students ride bike and some walk alone and also chatting and walking together with group this is the beautiful scenery she ever wanted to see. She was back to school for her child first day as transfer student. She was watching over the students who were happily together and so fresh for a long time. The time past so fast and her memory went back in time. Her first ...

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“CAUGHT BETWEEN LOVE AND JUSTICE” by Claire Ngesah

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“Are you ready? “she asked. “Well… to be honest, I am not. I am little bit nervous. What if things don’t turn out well? “she replied as she placed her laptop on a desk. “God will prevail. We already prayed for this sweetheart. Let me get you a cup of coffee” “Thanks mom, “she sighed while she sat staring at the blank laptop. This was Susan Marshall, a young middle aged lady whose father was brutally murdered in front of their home one morning while he was leaving for work. It has been 2 years since the main suspect was arrested and today, wa...

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“paper hearts and plastic tablecloths” by Saint Hinton

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Clover was quite averse to speed-dating. It just seemed like a complete scam. You talked to a person for sixty seconds which was, realistically, barely enough time to meet someone, and then you just hoped they liked you enough for the two of you to get matched.It was like online dating but suckier.And yet, here she was, dressed in a cute blue sweater dress in a large, cleared out restaurant, the tables decked out with pink and red furniture, that was suffocating the room along with cutout paper hearts. Very tacky, she thought.Her mother...

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“THE MAGIC OF BEING ONE AT LAST” by MAQ RIZVON

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The tedium of waiting is unbearable to most people, especially when they are young. Life is so demanding. There is so little time. And there are so many things to be attended to. They are in the prime of life. And it is a constant rush, to keep pace with others of their age. They appear to be on the go always. But, to a young woman in love, the story is different. The moments of waiting, for the lover boy to arrive, become sweet too. Nigar sat still. The room around her was encased in darkness. It was lit only by the moonlight streaming in f...

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“A FOREVER LOVE” by Queen Makhosi

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Eyes red and swollen due to my never ending stream of tears that had been flowing for three days. I turned to face my bedside table where my phone was and as I wrapped my fingers around it, I knew instinctively that I would not find what I am hoping to find but I remained hopeful. My thumb presses hard on the side button of my phone, making the screen light up. His picture wass the first thing that greeted my eyes, making me blink a few times because I can not afford more tears though I seemed to have an abundance. A year of experiencing the...

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“Speeches” by Sara Blanch

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My roomate was a prick...and that was that, that's how this story begins. Before I truly start this speech I would just like to apologise to anyone this might offend including my brother and of course Cedric...the said roomate. Dear Cedric, I am sorry that you are such a prick...I am also sorry that you are going to be stuck with me for practically forever thanks to our ridiculous life spans. I'd like to begin with the fact that I never wanted to attend university in the first place, It wasn't my destiny...I wasn't the oldest. If it ...

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“Last lady on my mind ” by Aishat Abdullahi

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Dude, you sure wants to see this girl or you're kind of joking? See man am not joking seriously, "I can't believe of all the girls its ruqy that's making me go crazy "replied Adam. Then this is really serious said muby. I thought you said this girl isn't your class or kinda girl? You bullied, insulted and made her feel bad for just her status. Adam I thought you said ruqy is just a commoner and an ordinary girl who doesn't deserve a stare from you? This is out of my reach dude, I have to go attend to my work please. -------------------------...

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“Little White Liar” by Val-Rae Christensen

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Little White LiarIt was meant to be a lie. A little, white, innocent thing, but a lie nonetheless. He had asked me the question, and he expected an honest reply.The poor fellow was in love. He had not confessed it, but I had seen him at the balls lately held. I had seen him dancing with Miss Hermione Hewitt, had witnessed his attempts to charm her. And I had seen how she had teased and taunted him and then turned her nose up at him in disapproval.I had feared when he had first come to me that he wished me to encourage her toward him, for she...

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“Darling James” by Alison Clink

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DARLING JAMES By Alison Clink Darling James. How I adored him. From the hem of his designer jeans to the tips of his chocolate brown curls. I loved James more than anything. Mo...

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“An Atom of Affection” by Gabriel N

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She sat in her brightly lit office, journals and books sprawled on the table. She was exhausted but dauntless to have at her enquiry once again. Through her window she saw the moon stamped onto the sky. She heard the cold wind wheezing through everyplace. She hadn't brought along her jacket because she'd not planned to stay out this long. She still sat in, lethargic, about to relish in the joys of true independence, of not being accountable to anyone, of being divorced from the incessant need to be anywhere else right now. Having done the ch...

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“Falling in love with the jerk next door.” by Diana Huckaby

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Most people believe that all stories end with the girl falling in love with the guy next door. Because they were either best friends or they'd grown up together or something. That wasn't the case for Alexia Daniels and Clay Johnson. They had lived next door to each other they're whole lives. Only they sure didn't have feelings for each other. Clay was the big guy on campus football star, basketball captain, head of the student leadership committee, and all around golden boy. Also it didn't hurt that he stood at six foot three with blonde ha...

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“I Love Me” by Ryan Symonds

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Content warning: body image issues Months passed since he packed his bags and left her, yet the walls of the house they once shared were still dull and lifeless, reflecting how Arya felt inside. Their relationship started in the ninth grade and ended at the age of twenty two. Arya only knew who she was within that relationship and now that it was over, her sense of who she was vanished. Her tears stopped falling long ago, but the ghost of their streams left permanent marks on her cheeks. Across from her bed, propped up against the wall...

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“Investment of a Lifetime” by Stephen McLean

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Craig Thompson slides out his office chair and sitting down, gets into his Investment form, booting up his multiple systems which display the numerous world stock markets on the multiple monitors which are strategically situated around his desk. Being a twenty eight year old Investment prodigy, Craig has made the firm of Hanson & Hanson Investments millions of dollars in the last several months with eerily accurately calculated trades. Today, arriving at work way before the usual employee crowd arrives, because this time using investors ...

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“I Remember: A Broken Soul” by J. G.

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“Hello my love” was how I greeted her every single time. Every single malt scotch placed before me. The fellow drinkers at my sides, whether they were my fellows or not, I could feel their glances, their gazes and stares as I said the words. As if I was crazy. I didn’t have many fellows left in my life, so perhaps I was crazy. Crazy for the drink I was. She was crazy for me, too. I found myself at bars alone, where I spent most of my hours during the days that passed. Days that always felt the same, because well, they were. If I drown my ...

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“a lover, she is kind” by Maddy Faggioli

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The hardest part of grief was the way it demanded your attention and focus. Ruby had lost a lot of people, she was accustomed to the background noise that grief provided. Most recent to exit her life via the Grim Reaper was her dog, Honey. It happened suddenly. Hit by a truck. Total accident and wildly out of the blue. She didn't have time to prepare for the loss of her young beagle, she had only gotten the puppy a couple years ago. So when the poor teenage driver knocked on her door sobbing apologies, every loss that she had suffered hit he...

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Write a romance where your character falls in love with the last person they expected to.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 193 stories

“Last one” by Floraine Thwin

“CAUGHT BETWEEN LOVE AND JUSTICE” by Claire Ngesah

“paper hearts and plastic tablecloths” by Saint Hinton

“THE MAGIC OF BEING ONE AT LAST” by MAQ RIZVON

“A FOREVER LOVE” by Queen Makhosi

“Speeches” by Sara Blanch

“Last lady on my mind ” by Aishat Abdullahi

“Little White Liar” by Val-Rae Christensen

“Darling James” by Alison Clink

“An Atom of Affection” by Gabriel N

“Falling in love with the jerk next door.” by Diana Huckaby

“I Love Me” by Ryan Symonds

“Investment of a Lifetime” by Stephen McLean

“I Remember: A Broken Soul” by J. G.

“a lover, she is kind” by Maddy Faggioli

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a mystery where the detective realizes at the last moment that they have the wrong suspect.

Write about someone getting a job offer they never would have thought to apply for.

Write about someone who gets an inheritance from a relative they’ve never heard of, but they’ll need to do something completely outside their comfort zone in order to collect it.

Write a science fiction story where all human behavior can be predicted — until your character does something the algorithm did not expect.

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