Can you touch me?

Woo hoo! My first contest! *Is so excited* It's pretty simple. Just pick one of the songs or quotes below and write me either a love story or a story about a couple that has broken up, is about to break up, or a lost love (It can be about a dead father, if you really wish!). I would love it even more if it’s about a couple that realizes they’re in love. Now, I want to be really touched by these stories, so please try the best that you can! I've read and watched pretty much anything revolving a love story, form A Walk to Remember to Brokeback Mountain so I'm pretty open-minded. Extra brownie points for using the songs with stars next to them, more for making the setting at a high school prom or the beach, and even more for writing about a gay couple!

Far Away- Nickelback *****
So Close- Jon McLaughlin *
Then you look at Me- Celine Dion **
Your Guardian Angel- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus***
Close Your Eyes- Kelly Clarkson
Dreaming with a Broken Heart- John Mayer **
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room- John Mayer
Gravity- Sara Bareilles
Feel Your Love- Jade
Iris- Goo Goo Dolls
No One- Alicia Keys
Hopeless Love- Daphne Loves Derby
Comatose- Skillet
Hey Juliet- LMNT
Crush- David Archuleta
Here Without You- Three Doors Down
From This Moment On- Shania Twain *** (My wedding song!)
If you’re not the one- Daniel Bedingfield
Three Cheers for Five Years- Mayday Parade
Cry- Mandy Moore ***
Drowning- Backstreet Boys
What Makes You Different- Backstreet Boys
When You Say You Love Me- Josh Groban **
Heaven (Candlelight Version) - DJ Sammy
Dancing- Elisa **
A New Day Has Come- Celine Dion
I Surrender- Celine Dion
Because You Loved Me- Celine Dion
So Small- Carrie Underwood
I’d Hate To Be You When People Find Out Who This Song is About- Mayday Parade
That's How You Know- Amy Adams (I LOVE Enchanted) *****
Fall For You- Secondhand Serenade **
Vulnerable- Secondhand Serenade **
Stay Close, Don’t Go- Secondhand Serenade
Stranger- Secondhand Serenade
Konstantine- Something Corporate **
On A Night Like This- Dave Barnes ***
I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing- Aerosmith **
I’ll Be- Edwin McCain *** (My other wedding song )
My Immortal- Evanescence
If I’m Not in Love With You- Faith Hill **
I’m Yours- Jason Mraz
A Whole New World- ***** (OMG, I might have to kiss you!)
The Fear You Won’t Fall- Joshua Radin
Beautiful Disaster- Kelly Clarkson
Fall to Pieces- Avril Lavigne
You and Me- Lifehouse
When You Say Nothing at all- Ronan Keating
I Knew I loved You- Savage Garden
No Air- Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown
The Rose- Westlife or Bette Milder
Flying Without Wings- Westlife
Please Forgive Me- Bryan Adams ****

I’ll probably end up adding more. If there’s a song you’d like to see on this list, just message me and I’ll add it!

And in case none of these songs work for you, here are some quotes!

"The worst way to miss someone is being right next to them, knowing you can't have them."

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

"That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening."


"There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart."

"You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel."

“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop the story."

"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."

"I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend...... The thing is, they're both you."

"Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?"

"The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places."

Don't forget. I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy...asking him to love her."

"Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever.. and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you."

"Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going."

"Don’t say we aren't right for each other, the way I see it is... We aren't right for anyone else."

"Don't you hate that? Uncomfortable silence. Why do we feel it's necessary to talk about bull in order to feel comfortable? That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the hell up for a minute and comfortably share a silence."

"I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where."

"I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend a day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." (I swear to God I will make out with you!) *****

"In my opinion the best thing you can you do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out of your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."

"My whole existence is flawed, you get me closer to God."

Okay, that's all I have! If you really want to, you can use a song and a quote!

***********************NOW, FOR THE RULES********************

Um....actually, I hate rules, so there won't be too many.

There may be some adult, but try to make it subtle, please. I don't want an entire story revolving around sex.

Reasonable spelling and grammer

Please, if you plan on making it long, make it interesting!

No bashing God, Religion, sexuality, or race. If you do, I will DQ you, no questions asked.

Please put the song/quote you used in your Author Notes.

Comment on one of my stories, or one of your fellow writers in the contest, and put who you commented on in your Author Notes. Failing to do so will lead to DQ (I will remind you, though. I hate disqualifying, so please don't make me do it!)

BROWNIE POINTS:
Gay stories! I'm not the biggest fan of lesbian stories, but I will read and comment them. You get even more points if the couple is Luke and Noah or Brian and Justin!

Description and Imagery are a huge plus! I want to feel like I'm right there with the characters.

Please don't make the characters one-dimensional. I love characters with depth, and different personalities. I want to love the characters, or hate them if that's what you're aiming for.

Well, I think that's about it. You can enter up to 3 stories each, but please keep it at that! Now....what are you waiting for? GO WRITE!!