Confession time: Love confessions in your story

skidiggy 2024-05-18 18:34:51 UTC #21

Nothing R-rated. Displays of affection that don't go further than hugs or sharing a room to just sleep in.

Leyelle 2024-05-18 18:38:27 UTC #22

well then it's not likely anyone would be able to tell lol. Friends can give hugs. Alicia has been giving Kattar hugs since they were teens, and sleepovers too, to a certain extent, as she had a habit of falling asleep in his room.

HostileFren 2024-05-23 21:31:26 UTC #23

I'm looking forward to some kind of progress for those guys. They all seem to be dancing around their feelings although at least they've realized them

skidiggy 2024-05-23 23:03:15 UTC #24

I feel that. We have a few events coming up that will force their respective hands.

Leyelle 2024-05-23 23:19:56 UTC #25

nothing could force you into a confession. You can resist it until your dying day...

(stops and thinks about a cartoon I watched where this girl claims one of the male leads as her fiance to keep him from being forcibly made a soldier.)

Well, maybe some things.

Leyelle 2024-06-11 01:02:42 UTC #26

Dominic had to go and ruin one of my favorite parts of the romance writing process by making his feelings known on day ONE, when he first meets the female lead. Apparently somebody told HIM you don't have to beat around the bush for 100 episodes.

And yet it's still slow burn.

But seriously, this story has subverted many of the tropes I enjoy writing into my stories and just been the flip of a things I wrote in "Damsel in the Red Dress" in a ton of different ways. I sometimes worry about my stories being too similar but this one just decided to be the flip of my first romance novel during the whole outlining process.

Lazy-Gamer 2024-06-11 01:25:20 UTC #27

Poor Kurtis from my comic "CALM" got rejected after his socially awkward self confessed. ;u;

Leyelle 2024-06-19 23:19:47 UTC #28

While not a love confession, there is a very important love breakthrough that takes place in "A Dozen Morning Glories" that has nothing to do with romance. it's a sort of motherly love breakthrough that takes place in one of the characters, and it's almost as important to the story, if not equally important, to the romance in the plot.

Leyelle 2024-07-17 15:19:33 UTC #29

here we go, Dominic's confession...the day he met Essence:

“Maybe it’s just because I’ve read so many romances. I have a hard time finding anything really unique that impresses me…”

I should have tacked on a ‘much’ at the end…

“Do you think I could impress you?” He asks suddenly.

What?

I look at him blankly.

“What?”

“I’m sorry,” he kind of laughs and smiles uncomfortably at the same time. “The second you walked in here, I knew I had to try to get your number because you’re just so striking…”

Leyelle 2024-08-08 17:02:10 UTC #30

Well this wasn't a confession of a love but a confession my male lead makes to the love of his life and it gets intense...

“-But when it broke when I was like 14 my mom made me throw it away. Because it was just GARBAGE-” the tears are careening down his face now, in livid glass streaks-

“I’ve never begged her like that before - I had a meltdown in front of my mother and she just told me it was ridiculous to be crying when I had so many TOYS-!!!”

At this, he stops and runs his hand sharply across his cheek like he’s trying to scrub out the anger - or pain, smiling violently-

“And here I go again. Crying like a baby. It’s stupid at my age but…”

Leyelle 2024-08-27 14:08:30 UTC #31

Aye, will be waiting so long before my FL forms a relationship, but fun fact Verner George confessed his feelings to Therese George the day they met, and kissed her. They have been married for more than 4 decades.

Leyelle 2024-09-16 16:13:11 UTC #32

I have another confession/a big turning point coming soon in "Damsel in the Red Dress." I hope everyone is excited...

“There’s something for you in the top - don’t open it here-,” he adds quickly before I can even unzip the bag, “the present I mean…it’s.”

His face reddens slightly as he stops and takes a deep breath.

pen_gii 2024-10-07 17:46:46 UTC #33

Here is a confession the MC received in his past life:

“We were sitting together on the stairwell. Florian kept giving me this. . .concerned look, so I asked him what was wrong. He didn’t answer at first, but then he said. . .”

Nao paused for a moment, recalling that night.

Nao had sat on that step—higher up than Florian’s, yet still leaving him shorter than the other boy—looking up at his friend. Florian had looked at him with that tender, worried gaze, and only after Nao was about to ask a second time did he finally reach out and ruffle Nao’s hair.

“Nao-kun, you probably know already, but I’m in love with you.”

Nao had been startled by these words, but Florian had kept on talking.

“I know I’m not your guy, so I haven’t said anything. Even if we dated, it wouldn’t go anywhere. Still, I worry about you sometimes.”

“. . .In love?”

Florian had chuckled. “See, Nao-kun? You don’t even know what love is. You’re so. . .so pure and innocent, so gentle. I can’t help being scared that you’ll get yourself hurt someday. There are a lot of people out there who would use your naivety for their own gain. If you should ever meet one of them. . .I just hope you’ll be able to stay safe."

He’d laughed some more when Nao frowned, then hugged him; after that night, Florian never mentioned his love for Nao again, but Nao wondered now if he’d ever found his guy.

Nao wrapped up the story for Rin and waited for him to say something in response.

“. . .So you didn’t love him back?” Rin asked after a moment.

Nao laughed a little. “Rin-san, just like he said back then. . .I don’t even know what it means to be in love. But one thing I can say is that, although I cared for him a lot, Florian was never someone I wanted to be in a relationship with.”

Rin looked at Nao thoughtfully for a long moment. A creeping realization dawned in his gaze, and with it, a light flush swept his face. He turned away. In a voice packed with undertones Nao couldn’t read, he said, “. . .You’ll know when it happens.”

Nao pondered this. He supposed it was probably true.

And here's the MC's confession to his crush:

It wasn’t until they were both halfway through their breakfast that Nao finally broke the silence. He paused in his movements and asked, “Rin-san. . .what do you think it means to like someone?”

Rin blinked and looked up. “. . .In what way?”

Nao frowned. “What do you think it means to have a crush on someone, I mean.”

“. . .Oh.” Rin deliberated for a moment. “Well. . .It’s different for everyone, but I guess it’s like. . .like that person scratches an itch you didn’t realize you had. They take up a lot of space in your thoughts and you want to find reasons to get closer to them. Being with them is comforting. . .but also. . .sort of like a sugar rush.”

“Oh. . .” Nao’s frown deepened, and he rubbed his mouth. His cheeks and nose were faintly pink. “Rin-san, I think. . .”

A strange feeling sprouted in Rin’s gut. He strove to keep a neutral expression, though he was suspicious that Nao was about to start talking about some person in their class that he liked. Some tiny voice in the back of his mind wondered why Nao hadn’t chosen Wen Xulong to chat about this.

“. . .I might like you,” Nao finished in a quiet voice.

“. . .”

Rin’s mind was wiped blank. It was a long moment before he finally managed to say, in a dead tone, “Oh, is that so. . .”

Nao set down his chopsticks and put his face in his hands. “Sorry. . .”

Rin came back to himself and waved his hands, face reddening. “No, no, no. . .I. . .Uh, it’s actually fine, I also think I like you. . .”

He’d been rambling in an attempt to make Nao feel better, and now he fell silent, his hands also stopping. Nao peeked up at him; he wished he could disappear. He must’ve looked like an idiot, sitting there with his hands raised and his face red as a chili.

Nao put his face down again, and his shoulders trembled a little. After a moment, a tiny laugh escaped his hands.

Rin put his head down in his arms, pushing his plate to the center of the table. “Well, at least I have entertainment value. . .”

“Rin-san. . .” Nao continued to giggle. “Sorry, it’s just. . .You’re really cute.”

Rin willed himself to sit up, then rubbed his forehead with a sigh. “I apologize if I’ve made things weird at all.”

“No, actually. . .” Nao reined in his laughter and wiped his eyes. “I feel better now. I don’t have to hide anything, and I can understand you a little better. I feel like we’ve bonded more.”