Rayleigh Cavenaugh and Alex Laymen dated for almost their entire senior year in high school, but it didn't end too well for them. Seven years later, Rayleigh starts working for the same magazine as Alex, and while she's reluctant to be anything more than colleagues, or at best, friends, Alex isn't about to let her slip through his fingers again.

She didn't really like him, but he was her best chance of escaping prison and that was good enough.

When my parents told me that it was my responsibility to take my annoying little sister to her horseback riding lesson every Saturday morning, I was less then thrilled. But, then I saw her instructor and made a mental note to send them a fruit basket.

Holly has always been poor and can barely make ends meet. Luke has always lived in luxury, but wants nothing more than to live a normal life, rather than the one under his parents' control. Once an arranged marriage is thrown at him, he runs away and moves into Holly's run-down apartment complex, where she shows him just how hard normal is — starting with a cheesecake to the face.

"It does not feel good, being bound to a man in holy matrimony who will speak to anyone but his wife." SKoW prompt winner.

There's something nerve-wracking about sitting in a train station, I have to admit. Waiting. But there's also something euphoric about it, too, and maybe even bittersweet.

Of course the guy I thought I had gotten rid of on multiple occasions would pop back into my life. I should have known he would show up again at some point or another, but I never expected him to be a model. Last time I checked, he graduated with a degree in engineering. Written for ADoR's Star-Cross'd