[Peppermint Mist]

username: Peppermint Mist
name: Veronica
gender: Female
when was a time they experienced unrequited love?:

She must’ve realised from the start, she must have. She must have blocked the feelings out, or ignored them, but she knew she was in too deep. She was usually a pro at this, stopping it from happening before it got too far, how could she have been so blind, how did she let this happen?

She clicked the home button on her phone again. With her hands shaking she tapped in her password and re-read the text, torture.

“Thank you, Veronica, you’re a great friend.”

They had a problem. Of course Veronica would help them out because she’d never leave someone she cared about lying in the dirt, but as soon she’d seen the text her heart fell, her eyes welled up and she realised then what had happened, she’d fallen in love.

Her chest ached. It was a mix of emotional and physical pain that almost made her writhe in agony. It was getting late but she couldn’t sleep, a lot of things were spinning around in her head, remembering how they had become friends. It was silly really. She had literally bumped into them making them drop their shopping. Somehow, they had managed to bond over broken jars and squashed food, and now they had been friends for the longest time. The pain of knowing that they will never love her back and that they would only ever see her just as a friend was almost too much to bear.

Veronica turned over to lie on her back and stared at the ceiling with phone clutched to her chest. Why must these things be so difficult? How could she let them ever be with someone else? She finally fell into a troubled sleep, hoping that when she woke up this feeling would be gone.

It wasn’t.

[Chippitty]

☾ Username:
lyrics
☾ Name:
"Oh hello, I'm- what's that??"
☾ Gender:
male

𝔻𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕓𝕖

𝕒 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕪-𝕖𝕪𝕖𝕕

𝕗𝕠𝕠𝕝!

The box he lived in was small, dark and damp. He wanted to go beyond the box, beyond the land, beyond his heritage. He wanted the outside. What was the use of money to him? He was accustomed to gold coins running through his hair. To jewels and rings hanging by his tail. And fame? Being the son of the general was enough. It brought unnecessary attention to the quick war-paced life of his home and of his lands.

He wanted to see things! To see the stars kiss the mountains, to hear rivers sing to the forests! He wanted adventure! Since he was a child his father's stories of grandure persisited in him.

Every night he sneaked out to continue his boat and tonight... He'll invite him!

But his friend's words upon seeing him were cold. A growl bellowed from his friends stomach.

Traitor!

The word rang in his ears.

Selfish!

Is he ?

Hasbeen!

The words weighed on his heart. How.... Could he? His best friend. The only person he trusted. The only person he saw as his family. The one he would travel with to the great lands. The words pierced him deeply and he took a step back.

His friend admitted, angrily, that because of the power of being the child of the general held power over many. Fear of that power made him his friend.

He kept quiet, his tail encircling him as he sat on the ground. He tried to cough up words but to no avail.

But his friend was right.

His pedigree's power did loom over everyone. It should have been obvious.

But if he left now... He'll betray his land in the middle of war.

"Im done. Just go home. Betray your breed there, Serefina."

And his friend left without another word.

(There's no sound)
When you dream big get ready for big problems



things suck
They always suck and nothing can change
One minute your fine but you know your cage
Its been building up

The water gets in your lungs and you can't stop it
Even the droplets get to you to a point it's heavy
It's painful, inevitable, and you try to drop it
But you can't. But you don't know, you weren't ready

For years maybe but you can't do much
The puddle became the whole ocean
You're drowning and you try to push them
But that's what happens with such

Just remember that bubbles go up
And that you have to move the water to swim
There's no shame in moving in the dim
And sometimes that's needed to go forward

It takes guts to breathe in the deep
It takes guts to go away from the dark waters
you'll be fine. You'll be a a hero, a martyr
You'll do great. Just vreathe, go up, and take that leap.

sorry, my phone hanged and I submitted a bit later than I thought

[saturnus]

ive gotten a request to extend the comp so the new end date is april 6, 10PM PST ^q^

[NaCl]

username: NaCl
name: Harry
gender: Male
when was a time they experienced unrequited love?: Harry knows how to cover his emotions pretty well, and it was over a text conversation.

"Malfoy."

Hey, do you have a crush on anyone?

yeah, you.

wait, what?

you?* sorry, typo!

haha that's fine. I do actually. This gril named Zoria

Harry had stopped reading after that and crumbled to the floor in his room, sobbing quietly. He had tried to confess to his longtime crush and he had been crushing on this random girl he didn't know. He felt terrible like his world was coming down on top of him and he couldn't do anything and sure, his friend wasn't an idiot he would figure it out eventually and he would have to face him. He really didn't want to do that.
Ignore him
he had told himself.
Ignore him he did.
He didn't talk to his friend for a very long time and when he did it seemed he had forgotten but Harry knew his friendship with him would never be the same and they drifted apart. His confession had killed his friendship with his best friend.

[anonymous.aa]

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[♕] username: cyansakura
[♕] name: ryuki
[♕] gender: male
[♕] time experienced of unrequited love:

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"don't bring those glowing blue tears-

ryuki during school usually didn't like attending, nor w
aking up early, and learning things he would never wo
uld remember again. but, when a new girl came to hi
s school, she had opened his eyes to the world. he lik
ed her so much that, he didn't want to seem weak at
all especially to her, so he joked around to her and tr
ied 'provoking' her. he knew that she knew he was onl
y joking around. she didn't seem to mind either, her l
augh especially made him happy.

-i'll come back-

one day he saw his friend walk with her. he grew jeal
ous at sight so quickly. he didn't know what they wer
e talking about which made him more angry. he look
ed away but instead he turned around and ran up to
him, punched him and started a fight. the fight was
long and were eventually separated when the teach
ers came and sent them to the office.

-i promise

when his crush talked his friend more, the more he
grew more upset, his jealousy and hatred bubbling
inside him. suddenly, she came over to him, to ryu
ki, and talked to him to. telling him it was a misun
derstanding. but when she was talking he could tel
l she was quite expressionless. supposedly angry? w
hen she told him sharply why he had done that he
was frozen. he thought she liked him. but he only t
hen realized, she only wanted to be his friend and
instead cared about his friend. traitor, he thought
but if she liked his friend, what's done was done, a
nd he could never change her feelings.

-but you lied in the end"

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[Fiern]

username: Fiern
name: Pyramus
gender: Male
when was a time they experienced unrequited love?:
It hadn't been sudden. No love at first glance. No, it had been slow, growing over days and months, like a slow-motion sunrise until one day you blink and realise that everything was covered in the warm glow of the day. Of love. That was how Pyramus came to realise he loved his best friend. He loved the way she laughed, the way she rolled her eyes at him, the way he could bring a blush to her cheeks if he really tried. He loved that she was always unapologetically herself, and that she accepted him as himself. That she had no time for pretending to be anything other than what they were. That though she had her bad days, she always said you might as well laugh and love life, because what you got was what you got, and it was up to you to make the most of it. He loved the man he was when he was with her.

So he told her. Carpe diem and all that right? Won't get what you don't try for. And her smile had faltered for a moment. She'd been kind, but it honestly didn't hurt any less. Maybe in some ways it hurt more because he had no reason to rage or turn sadness into anger. Anger was always easier to deal with than hurt or sadness, but it didn't heal well, it festered. What they'd had had been so good he couldn't stand to think of it festering, poisoned, ruined because of his pride. Why would he think he was entitled to her love just because he loved her? Even that wasn't fair though. He knew she did love him, but she loved him like family, while his love had grown undeniably romantic.

Things were different, for awhile. But, he realised, the differences were all in his perception. She had never changed. She was still exactly who she was and who she'd always been. He still loved her, and some days the regret from what could have been took his breath away, but he loved her for her, not for who he wanted her to be. And if the person that she was only wanted him as a friend, well he'd laugh and love her as his dearest friend.

They stayed close over the coming years, Pyramus watched other boyfriends enter her life, the occasional girlfriend. At first a part of him had whispered that he could do better for her than they could. That part felt justified when the relationships eventually ended. Eventually though, Pyramus took a good hard look at himself and admitted that it didn't matter if all of her relationships failed. She would never feel that way about him. And what he really wanted wasn't for her to be sorry she hadn't chosen him, but for her to be happy. It was this second realisation that finally saw him releasing the last of the toxic strings of love based on feelings of ownership.

Finally Pyramus moved on. In a way. He found relationships of his own. Loved and was loved by others. Still, he held a special place in his heart for his dearest friend, and his once and forever unrequited love.

[eli ayase]

username:
name:
gender:
when was a time they experienced unrequited love?: (300 word max)

res omg!!

[crucifying.]

username:
name:
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res

[FluffyBirdie]

"To me, you're like the Sun."

Username :: FluffyBirdie || Name :: Adonis || Gender :: Male
Song: Drag Me Down
Prompt answer :: 300 words || Extra 1 :: 296 words || Extra 2 :: Song + mini poem

"A shining, beautiful star that gives off light endlessly;"

Giggly laughter drifted over to Adonis’ table, and he glanced up from his screen, waiting. Kaizo was giving a bow, which likely incited the laughter, and was offering her an arm.

That was his cue. Adonis paid and left, jumping into his car and driving around to the restaurant front in time for Kaizo and his date to arrive. She gasped when he opened the door for her, surprised he had a manual car and a driver no less, and was dropped off at home blowing kisses to her boy.

"Do you ever like the people you flirt with?" Adonis asked casually, having gathered courage for this question since they first met.

Kaizo laughed in reply, a quick bark of beautiful sound. "No way, they're just targets with the things I need." He nudged his friend and raised an eyebrow in mock curiosity.

"What, jealous?"

Adonis firmly elbowed him back, shooting him a frown as he did so, his skin tingling from the almost-contact, his heart already numb. He knew the answer the moment he asked. So how come it felt like his hopes were crushed? Why did he even had hope in the first place?

"Just sometimes I’ll swear you’re actually serious."

"Pish, as if. Nothing I do gets past you, Donnie, so there’s no way you’re fooled. Thanks for the compliment though." Kaizo stretched himself across the dashboard, before winking.

“Plus, I only ever liked you.”

“You’re going to make me crash the car.”

“We can die together.”

Adonis rolled his eyes, to Kaizo’s joy. But whatever words Kaizo said, he knew it was false. He could sense the truth of that denial, the truth that his crush did not feel the same way about him. Like Kaizo said, nothing got past him.

"No way."

An empty heart.

"A light that means so much to me."

Extra 1 :: Everyday Emotions

“Sup Donnie.”

Adonis sensed Kaizo walking over, helped by the smell of toasted bread, and steeled himself when his friend rested an arm on his shoulder and leaned in to see what was on the screen. If Adonis moved his head slightly, he would be resting against his arm.

“Keeping an eye on the news?”

“Don’t call me Donnie, Kaizo. And I would be if you weren’t dropping breadcrumbs on my keyboard.” He brushed away the offending crumbs, before sighing. “Since there’s about 15 minutes before the next job, I’m assuming you’re still not dressed.”

“People love the just-rolled-out-of-bed look. You sure do.” It’s that tone, serious yet joking. As far as he knew, Kaizo only used that tone with him. Just for him. It might just be selfishness though.

“Stop flirting and get dressed, useless.” He lightly elbowed Kaizo, eyes briefly leaving the screen to flash him a stern look and receiving a breathless chuckle in return.

“Cooold. I thought you loved me, Donnie.” He slowly shoved himself off, but not before flicking the gold bar on Adonis’ ear. He forced himself not to react.

“I’ll love you if we actually make it there on time.”

“Awww c’mon.”


Adonis allowed himself to slump when he was sure the joker was nowhere near. He felt like he’d been through a race. In all honesty, a stupid part of him loved the flirts, even if it meant nothing. That charmer flirted with everyone.

Yet every word he said sounded so serious, and that tone… If only he responded similarly earlier, instead of wishing he would flirt back now. But it was too late to change his image from endlessly distant to suddenly charming.

He could only hope Kaizo never took him seriously, and forever called him Donnie.

"Will I ever reach you?"

[husky.]

username: husky.
name: elio
gender: male
when was a time they experienced unrequited love?:
'if you're too embarrassed to say it, put it in a love song ~'

wip