Together Stories

𝐀𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐕𝐈𝐊𝐀 × 𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐀𝐍 "What's so special about me?" Aashvika asked, her voice barely above a whisper, her eyes locked onto vivaan's with an unspoken longing. Vivaan's gaze softened, his eyes tracing the contours of her face as if memorizing every detail. A gentle smile playing on his lips, and for a moment, the world around them melted away. "You are that serenity people search for their entire lifetime, only to find it in heaven- that elusive peace they're told awaits them after they're gone. But i found it already, in you. Your eyes are like those unfathomable oceans where i'd willingly drown, forever lost in their depths, mesmerized by the secrets they hold, the mysteries they whisper to my soul. Your voice is like a soothing melody that flows from Krishna ji's flute, a symphony that calms my soul." __________________________________ AASHVIKA SINGHANIA, a 23 year old woman who's an event planner, making magic happen for others while her own life stayed simple and grey. Love seemed like a luxury she couldn't afford, not with her family depending on her. So she'd closed that door, focusing on being the strong one her loved ones needed. VIVAAN MALHOTRA, on the other hand, was the master of his domain- a corporate empire built on logic and steel. At 25, he'd perfected the art of detachment, his emotions locked away behind a wall of ice. Or so he thought. Until he met Aashvika, and suddenly, his carefully constructed world tilted on its axis. She felt like home- like the missing piece he'd been searching for without even knowing it. And Vivaan, the man who'd forgotten how to feel, was now drowning in emotions he couldn't quite grasp. __________________________________ A lovestory of two souls that redefined the definition of love. Two souls that didn't just love each other but worshipped the beauty in each other's flaws✨💌 ______ Jump into the story to know more! ~Avantika🌷✨

Mahanadhi

Our Story: A Chosen Family What if one decision changed everything? What if, after Aarohi's death, Akshara refused to leave Ruhi behind? What if the little girl who lost her parents didn't grow up surrounded by blame... but by love? Walking away from everything she once called home, Akshara chooses a different path - one where three children grow up not as strangers or rivals, but as siblings who become each other's greatest strength. In a new country, far from the shadows of the past, she rebuilds her life with Abhir, Ruhi, and little Navira - three hearts that slowly turn a broken beginning into a beautiful home. Guided quietly by the support of a man who becomes her unexpected father figure, Akshara learns that sometimes family is not the one that abandons you... ...but the one that stands beside you when everything falls apart. This is the story of Ruhi Chuhhi, Billa Boy, and their little Panda - three siblings who grow up protecting each other, laughing through chaos, and proving that love can rebuild even the most shattered lives. Because sometimes... the family you choose becomes the one that saves you.

Once, Maddie and August had a home filled with noise, laughter, and the kind of love that felt unshakable. Now, the noise has faded. August is a successful surgeon, constantly pulled between the pressure of saving lives and the distance growing inside his own. Maddie, a stay-at-home mother building her small business in the quiet moments she can steal, is holding everything together-until she realizes she might be the only one still trying. Between sleepless nights, unspoken frustrations, and a house full of children who notice more than anyone admits, the cracks in their marriage begin to widen. What was once partnership slowly turns into silence. What was once love begins to feel like survival. And in a home where nothing is ever truly said out loud, their children start learning the language of tension, distance, and unanswered questions. As Maddie and August are forced to confront the truth of what they've become, they must decide whether love is something that can be rebuilt-or if some breaks are too deep to repair. Because sometimes, the hardest part isn't falling apart. It's realizing it happened quietly... while you were still standing next to each other.

A month after completing his military service, Jimin begins to find his rhythm again alongside the rest of BTS. After a traumatic and violent attack, Jimin tries to suppress the emotional aftermath, attributing his lingering physical symptoms to stress and exhaustion. However, as weeks pass and his condition worsens, he is confronted with an unthinkable reality: he is pregnant. The revelation threatens to upend not only his identity but also the future he had just begun rebuilding. Faced with intense scrutiny, personal trauma, and the demands of an international career, Jimin is forced into an impossible position. Yet, amid the chaos, one truth becomes clear-this child is innocent. Choosing to keep the baby becomes an act of quiet defiance and healing. As his pregnancy progresses in secrecy, supported fiercely by his bandmates, Jimin begins to rediscover strength in vulnerability. The situation grows more complex when a routine test reveals that he is expecting a daughter-and that she has Down syndrome. Rather than fear, the diagnosis deepens Jimin's connection to his unborn child. He becomes intensely protective, determined to give her a life filled with the love and acceptance he knows she will need in a world that may not always understand her. Balancing rehearsals, public appearances, and a hidden pregnancy, Jimin walks a precarious line between global stardom and deeply personal transformation. The comeback tour looms closer, but so does the reality of becoming a parent under circumstances he never could have imagined. At its heart, the story is about resilience-about reclaiming agency after trauma, redefining identity, and choosing love in its purest, most unconditional form. For Jimin, the stage may be where he shines, but the most profound journey unfolds far from the spotlight-as he prepares to welcome a daughter who will change his world forever.

This is the story of a Footman's daughter and how she came to be. The tale of Alora Barrow and how she would change everything a rare soul born of magic, magic of the sun.

Meg finds it difficult to understand her new autistic coworker.

Kung sakaling hindi tayo ang dapat, baka sila ang nararapat. Started: April 1, 2022 Finished: .....

For a thousand years, the world has survived under a fragile magical treaty called The Covenant - an ancient binding spell that keeps five elemental realms from colliding and destroying each other. But the Covenant is failing. Ash begins falling from the sky - a sign the Fire Realm is breaking through. And the only people who can fix it... are the descendants of the original traitors who nearly destroyed the world the first time.

⁽Bᴏᴏᴋ 1 ᴏꜰ Sʜᴏʀᴛ Sᴛᴏʀɪᴇs⁾ 𝒜𝓃 𝒪𝓁𝒹-𝓈𝒸𝒽ℴℴ𝓁 ℒℴ𝓋ℯ 𝒮𝓉ℴ𝓇𝓎 Let's travel back to the year 1989, The years when love letters still carried the scent of ink... And every stolen glance weighed heavier than a hundred words. Two hearts learned to beat against the rhythm of expectation. He, molded by discipline and duty. She, woven with faith and quiet rebellion. Between family honor and whispered prayers, between temple bells and city rains, their worlds clashed... collided... and slowly intertwined. This is not just a love story.. it is the memory of an era, of traditions that bound, of choices that freed, of a love too stubborn to fade. What will happen when faith, family, and love collided...

​Nam Min Joon is self-centered, demanding, and currently... homeless. After a disastrous mix of bad press and tax evasion rumors sends Nam Corp's stock into a tailspin, Min Joon is left penniless. ​Enter Bo Young, the assistant who knows his coffee order, his schedule, and now, his lack of a backup plan. Out of pity, she offers him a place to stay for seven days. But as "one week" stretches on, the corporate boundaries begin to blur. Bo Young is determined to restore Min Joon to his former glory just so she can finally have her apartment back and get some sleepㅡbut the more time they spend in close quarters, the more she realizes she might not want him to leave. #onc2026 prompt 48

1917 Having been recently relieved from a brutal stint at the front lines, Thomas and a small unit of medics are stationed at a secondary casualty station. Thomas's cynical shell is cracked when a four-year-old girl named Rosie is brought in. The sole survivor of a direct hit on her family home, she has lost both legs below the knee and her parents in a single heartbeat. Major Clarkson, recognizing Thomas's meticulous (if distant) nature, assigns him to her constant care. Initially, Thomas resents the "nanny" work but eventually something shifts. For the first time in his life, Thomas isn't performing for a master or scheming for a promotion; he is simply needed. He uses his "acquired" luxuries-chocolate and extra blankets-to coax her back to life. As Rosie stabilizes, the camp receives a shipment of primitive prosthetic limbs. While the surgeons are busy with the endless stream of dying soldiers, Thomas takes it upon himself to be Rosie's legs. In the quiet hours between bombardments, he teaches her to balance, then to shuffle, and finally to walk. In Rosie's stubborn refusal to give up, Thomas finds a reflection of his own survival instinct-but hers is pure, untainted by the bitterness that has defined him. She becomes the only thing in France that makes him feel like a "good man." Thomas realizes that as a Sergeant, he is bound to the mud until he is either dead or "broken." Desperate to stay with her, or at least be sent back to England where he might find a way to track her down, he looks at the flickering lights of the enemy line. The shot that shatters his hand is his ticket home-and his greatest shame. As he is loaded onto a transport, he catches one last glimpse of Rosie watching from a distance, standing tall on the legs he taught her to use. He leaves behind the only person he has ever truly loved without conditions, carrying a permanent scar that will forever remind him of the cost of his humanity.

Some love stories don't begin with confession. They begin with denial. At sixteen, Xiao Zhan believes dreams come before emotions. A quiet, observant student in his final year of school, he finds comfort in books and words. He writes stories that refuse to follow the usual rules-stories where love isn't defined by wealth, power, or beauty. He hates the idea that one person must always be rich and strong while the other is admired only for their looks. Love, to him, should be equal-or not written at all. At twenty-one, Wang Yibo believes survival comes before everything. By day, he sells vegetables in a crowded market with his father. By night, he studies relentlessly, chasing a dream that feels too big for someone from a family that counts every coin. He has an adopted seven-year-old brother to protect, responsibilities to shoulder, and no time to imagine love. Then one day- a glance in a market. A smile that lasts longer than it should. And two voices whispering the same lie: No. I can't fall in love. Years pass. Dreams are chased. Lives move forward. Until the future shatters in a single moment. A car accident. A hospital room filled with fear. A doctor's voice saying words that change everything: "He may never remember." Standing there, Xiao Zhan doesn't cry. Because somewhere deep inside him, he believes this pain isn't real- that everything, from the market smile to the years they shared, is just a dream he hasn't woken up from yet. As machines beep and family members break down, Xiao Zhan drifts backward in time- to the day he was sixteen, to the day everything actually began. This is a story about love that waited, dreams that refused to die, and two people who spent years convincing themselves they couldn't fall- only to learn that some feelings don't ask for permission. ---

*Holdin' my breath, slowly I said, "You don't need to save me"!, But would you run away with me?" "Yes!!"* Not every connection begins with certainty..... Some begin with a question that changes everything. Two lives, crossing paths in moments that feel too quiet to be coincidence, yet too fragile to call fate. Between distance and closeness, silence and almosts, they find something neither of them were searching for-but both begin to hold onto...

"GETTING MARRIED TO YOUR SUPPOSED BRIDE'S BROTHER HAS NEVER BEEN REAL" ... Forced to marry a girl you don't love and much more younger than you isn't exactly fun. In fact it's the last thing you would want in this world to happen especially if you're gay. But getting married to her brother as her replacement? Now that's something... As secrets unravel and gruesome past emerge, will our two boys make it? Or would it turn out to be something much more worse rather than the good everyone is expecting? I mean, what could possibly go wrong? It's just business. [ Original Un-Edited Version ]

This side story focuses on Ethan's younger sister, Isabelle, and Adrian's (Ethan's best friend's) cousin, Marco. Isabelle is career-driven but unlucky in love, while Marco has a charming reputation but hides emotional scars. After a chance encounter, they enter a fake dating scenario similar to Ethan and Lara's original contract marriage, but this one is less about business and more about personal growth, healing, and discovering love in unexpected ways.

Cool girl StellaRose Jackson and arrogant jock Sebastian Reed get stuck as partners on a month-long science project neither of them wants-especially since they can't stand each other. Forced to spend time together after school, their constant arguments slowly give way to unexpected understanding, revealing sides of themselves no one else sees. But when the project deadline-and their growing feelings-collide, they have to decide whether what they've built is just for a grade... or something real.,

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. - Malala Yousafzai We share our emotions through art. Through writing, painting, and composing. In a world where no one shares their inner music anymore, some begin to lose themselves and become Muted. When Solveig's brother becomes one of them, she refuses to accept his silence. To save him, she must find not only his lost voice, but her own and discover that even in the quietest world, a single voice can awaken many. Prompt 36: You're told to choose a weapon before battle, but when you approach the table, the only options laid out are musical instruments.

There are moments that don't just change lives. They divide them into before and after. Moments where everything you believed was unbreakable quietly begins to slip, not with noise or warning, but with a stillness so heavy it feels wrong. He looked at them. Really looked. Like he was searching for something that refused to be found. And then, with unsettling calm- "Who are you?" The world did not shatter. It kept moving. The monitors still beeped. The city still breathed. The morning still came. Only four lives... stopped. Because the man who had once been their anchor-the one who had raised them, shielded them, bled for them-now looked at them like strangers standing too close. Because in that single question, years of love lost its meaning, and the strongest bonds were reduced to something terrifyingly fragile. As if they had never existed at all. Final book in SINGHANIA BROTHERS saga!

A wanderer who has spent three centuries outrunning stillness. A wizard who sits on boundary markers and asks questions that cost something to answer. They meet at a crossroads in the rain - and neither of them will leave it the same. A slow burn Middle-earth story about the long road between strangers and something more.