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

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“Under the Mistletoe” by Radhika Diksha

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"Hi, good morning,” I shouldn't be so excited, but I am. I like him no I love him.“Hm,” he says.“You look stressed, is everything alright?”“The exams are around the corner I want to score well. I want to secure a place in the college I want.”I take his hands and rub my fingers over his knuckles. I know he ...

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“Graduation's After Party” by Jasey Lovegood

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Graduation’s After Party I never expected to fall in love with Esme Peltonen. Ever. She was the one who sat at the back of the classroom, who never raised her hand in class, the girl no one noticed. Except, me. I would be seated next to her since everyone else was too afraid. “She’s a witch!” They would say and they would push me towards the back, “You have to sit next to her Ryder, you’re the worst after her!” Which to be fair, hurt a little, but I did as they told me to. Ever since the start of Year 10, the year I got my growth spurt, ...

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“Rescue: a poetry-verse drama” by Emmie Greensgate 🏗🔚🔚👫

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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"Emilia yells, running at me.I can't see the problem, butit's thrown her into tizzy.She screams some more,slamming into me, andknocking my glasses onto the ground; Ipickthem up, placing the glass frames over my eyes,sending the rioting worldinto clarity. Or near clarity.Nothing is clear right now."AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Emilia grabs my shoulders and shakes me a little."What'swrong?" I ask.Oh, nothing, nothing, NO-THING exceptSAMANTHA-JAE wasjust TAKEN AWAYB...

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“the language of flowers” by KED KED

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Hunter eyed her windowsill critically. Truthfully, she knew there was no more room. Ever the pragmatist, she quickly catalogued her ever growing inventory of houseplants. She couldn’t find it in herself to care about the troubling pattern of these lovely new additions. She’d make room, she knew. Somewhere. Maybe there was a lonely shelf in the bathroom? She heaved a sigh and plopped into her kitchen chair, raking her hands through unkempt hair, still partly styled from the utter disaster of a date from t...

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“Wild At Heart” by Kylie Wallis

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Kim Lockwood lived in a world where the supernatural creatures of legend and myth, pretty much ran the show. Humans were given rights, along with all the other species, but not always treated fairly. Slave trading was a legal and very profitable business.Kim’s family, poor and in fear of their lives, sold her to a vampire coven who owned the city. She was ten years old. She worked in the Royal House and quickly learned how to keep out of trouble. Her Masters mostly had visitors of the werewolf and witch variety.Other creatures came by as wel...

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“The Silent Andriod” by Maya W.

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***Disclaimer - this story is based on the original little mermaid story, so trigger warning for suicide at the end.*** “She looked at the sharp knife and again turned her eyes toward the Prince, who in his sleep murmured the name of his bride. His thoughts were all for her, and the knife blade trembled in the mermaid's hand. But then she flung it from her, far out over the waves. Where it fell the waves were red, as if bubbles of blood seethed in the water. With eyes already glazing she looked once more at the Prince, hurled herself over ...

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“The Clattering Plates” by Godwin Efu

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ONE Embarrassment"He's dated 2346475 girls... And still counting. Of course, that's overestimated but really he's dated a lot," Rachel whispered to her friends Faith, Tola and Abigail, and leaning forth while she spoke. She said " lot" with bigger emphasis.They were in the school cafeteria, eating or specifically doing "the usual thing:" talking about boys. Or not. More correctly, talking about a boy.The hall hummed with the sparse murm...

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“Love at Second Sight” by 𝚇𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚎𝚗

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Sitting in the living room of my family's countryside ranch, and gazing out into the vast farmland of rural Iowa is something I will always remember from my childhood. I would watch cattle munch slowly on grass, crop dusters making their rounds above the fields, and the occasional passing of tour buses. Now, life was different. After my father passed away about one and a half years ago, my mom had moved to a small apartment in Philadelphia. My sister May then started her third year of college, and I started my first. I could remember ...

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“Will You Be Okay?” by Marcail Nevaeh

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I walk through the school hallway, eyes straying every few seconds to you. No one told me it would be this difficult. I watch you, noticing your slumped posture and tear-stained cheeks. Your eyes are red-rimmed and swimming with unshed tears. I watch in pain as you lean against the wall, arm stretched out to support you, and more tears spill out of your eyes that you are squeezing shut. I slowly walk over to your shaking body. I try to wrap my arms around you, but they slide right through your body, as if p...

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“Tale As Old As Time” by Story Time

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I’ll tell you what I don’t appreciate. I do not appreciate people telling me how I should or shouldn’t be feeling. It was not my--Let’s get this right--It was not my choice or of my choosing to come to the castle. I was placed in a very uncomfortable position, wherein, I was asked to come rescue my father, because he went somewhere he shouldn’t have. Now, yes, that was a bad choice that he made, but what I did was simply the result of a reaction to a bad decision. And so what happens is-- An umbrella forms. Once you are put in a ...

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“Annabeth” by Kate Winchester

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A huge stack of piping hot chocolate chip pancakes complete with whipped cream was placed in front of him and with it a cold, tall glass of milk to wash it all down.“Thank you.” Xander said.“You’re welcome, dear.” The waitress responded. Xander had come to love the quaint diner. He knew all the wait staff now, and they treated him well. He breathed in the chocolaty, buttery, syrupy smell of perfection. Saturday was the only day where he could sleep in, eat breakfast at the diner, and read a book. It was his...

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“Thorns” by Valerie June

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Our story takes place on a blustery December day in Hyde Park, one of the most romantic places in the world, where lovebirds often tweet about, cloaked with the smell of chocolate and flowers. In a certain quaint apartment complex, there lived a daughter and father suffering under the cruel heavy weight of poverty. The daughter, Marigold, loved her father dearly and would do anything to make his life better. Since Marigold worked as a seamstress it was difficult to afford enough food to go round between them, which made the poor man come dow...

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“Falling in Love” by Kathleen March

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Authors’ (not author’s, since there is more than one of us) note: Readers might miss not having characters with names in this story. However, if we keep the two persons involved anonymous, we might better see the light of commonality shining through them, toward us. (Is that too dead metaphorish? We’re kind of new at this writing thing, to be honest.) So just relax and pretend the two people below are you and me, or you and somebody else, or even your parents. At the end, please be advised that you may submit comments and ques...

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“Seasons' Harvest” by Rexy Rexy

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Spring: It was one of those moments, those surreal magical moments they say only happen in dreams, perfect temperature, humidity, sunlight, gentle breezes stroking my fevered cheeks, like a deja vu movie scene kept on looping through my daily ecstasy. Mr Sun’s exceptionally tall and athletic figure was standing on the podium like a statue of god as usual with one arm pointing straight out at a boy at the back of the class who just got shaken awake by his seatmate. ‘You, yes you, come on, stand up! How do we solve this equatio...

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“A TRANSOM OF LOVE” by Dawood Abbasi

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A melodious clamor of girls’ talking was emerging out from the middle class room of the tuition center. The conversation was at its full swing among the young audacious students. When Mr. Rauf entered the class amid of these gossips, a silence prevailed there suddenly. The tunes of mischievous chattering were quiet now. When he took a bird eye view of the students, he found two new girls sitting on the front desks. He inquired about the whereabouts of these new students politely. A pretty looking tall girl stood up decently to introduce and ...

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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

“Under the Mistletoe” by Radhika Diksha

“Graduation's After Party” by Jasey Lovegood

“Rescue: a poetry-verse drama” by Emmie Greensgate 🏗🔚🔚👫

“the language of flowers” by KED KED

“Wild At Heart” by Kylie Wallis

“The Silent Andriod” by Maya W.

“The Clattering Plates” by Godwin Efu

“Love at Second Sight” by 𝚇𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚎𝚗

“Will You Be Okay?” by Marcail Nevaeh

“Tale As Old As Time” by Story Time

“Annabeth” by Kate Winchester

“Thorns” by Valerie June

“Falling in Love” by Kathleen March

“Seasons' Harvest” by Rexy Rexy

“A TRANSOM OF LOVE” by Dawood Abbasi

🌟 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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