LotteStarburst

Sick of third wheeling her best friends who have somehow all gotten into a relationship over the span of the last three months, Michelle Holmes finds herself commiserating with schoolmate Caledon Brightwell over their similar plights in life at work one day.His friends, much like hers, have taken to turning group outings into triple dates--where she's always the odd one out.In the middle of their complaining session, they hit on the perfect solution to their problems: they can just date each other. After all, deciding to get together was exactly how their friends started their relationships. Not that she has any idea how dating is supposed to work, but at least she finally has a boyfriend.Too bad her friends aren't impressed, but it's not her fault that they can't appreciate her genius.The easiest way not to third wheel on a group date is to have a date of your own, right?------------------Updates on Fridays. (third person, slowburn)------------------+ "What do you mean 'it's not as simple as just declaring that we're together'?!"…

LotteStarburst

Sequel novella to You Are the Shell to My Tortoise-----Nolan and Chelsea go through their first year in college as high school sweethearts, finding time to make their relationship work despite their conflicting class and sleep schedules. Having been together for over two years, they are closer and more comfortable around each other than ever.However, off-hand comments and remarks about their relationship bring to light the potential challenges they may have to face sooner than they had thought. Unbeknownst to Chelsea, while she attempts to hide her inner turmoil over the unknown future of their relationship, Nolan is forced to battle the surfacing fears he has been ignoring over the past two years.Out of the sight, out of mind doesn't work anymore when you can't rip your eyes away from it.-----Complete. (first person, past tense)…

LotteStarburst

Nolan, an unapproachable guy who ignores the existence of all his schoolmates, sleeps in all of his classes. Normally, this wouldn't be Chelsea Arnold's problem--she does her best to pay attention in class and attends gym like a good, normal student.Unfortunately, she just so happens to be his assigned desk partner in many classes. She's frequently forced to wake him in English class and ends up earning the unofficial title of Nolan's Wake-up Alarm--a title that nobody in the entire school covets. The last thing she wants is to interact with him more than she absolutely has to. One day, their gym teacher sends her to bring him back to class, which he always skips for some reason. When she accidentally shines her flashlight in his sleeping face, it triggers a chain of events that gradually intertwines their lives together.It's hard to be a normal student when you start befriending the school oddball. It doesn't help that he has more secrets than the Big Ben has stairs.-----Complete. (first person, past tense, slowburn)-----1st place in Humor Category of Psychological Novel Reads Contest 2020 (29 Sep 2020)-----Started: April 28, 2020Completed: July 23, 2021Word Count: 160K+-----The sequel, The Tortoise and His Sunrise, is up on my profile now!…

LotteStarburst

(Where did Misty, Kyle's cat, go? Kyle thinks that someone stole it, and with good reason--the daisies in his backyard garden told him.)When Kyle's ragdoll cat, Misty, goes missing, he and his group of childhood friends launch their own after-school search party for it all over their hometown Brinevale.He's positive that someone has stolen her because flowers don't lie. The only problem is that they're unable to give him a good description of the supposed culprit, because, well, they're flowers.In the midst of their search as they nose around town, suppressed rumors of Guts, an animal serial killer who has been eviscerating pets and strays alike, surface. There hasn't been a 'case' in two years, but when a news article for an unfortunate stray dog shows up one morning while Misty is still missing, it sends Kyle spiraling into an even greater panic for the safety of his beloved cat.What began as an innocuous search for Misty slowly pulls them into the bigger and more sinister things at work in the underbelly of Brinevale.(Volume 1 of Stardust and Neon Lights, a book series)-----(third person, NON-romance | read it like it's manga)…