How to Stay in Love

How to Stay in Love

- One Shot Competition  Entry for How to Fall in Love 

- COPYRIGHTS

Writing belongs to lucky-blue

Idea belongs to roastedpiglet 

- This is an imaginative, One Shot Entry for a Writing Competition held by roastedpiglet, and is written by lucky-blue. No part of this is meant to be taken seriously or offensively. No bashing, hating or harsh disagreement of opinions is allowed. Thank you, and I hope you enjoy. 

- Total One Shot Entry includes 2 521 words.

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Shock overtook; my head felt as if it had lost its blood capillaries, and goose bumps started forming all over the bare of my skin. Nothing managed to find its way into my head, seeing as this felt too shocking. Dizziness and flippancy soared through my veins as though they were their fuel.

It was in this moment that I realized how deeply I had underestimated the man standing in front of me. Cray-grey eyes stared at me hopefully, slowly, but surely losing their brightness into a darker aroma of hurt.

After two years of letting go, a bout of my heart had already made out that nothing was going to change, that Finn Laurel would always be incapable of love. It had seemed perfectly reassuring that the word love would never be matched in a sentence uttered by Finn Laurel, where I and you were present. During my trauma of getting over the heartache, that was my love, the fact that was Finn's incapability to love had bolstered my heart into not worrying about Finn's sudden lure with another female. Nevertheless, deep down, it had hurt more to know that the only man I had ever loved was inept at loving me back.

Well now, you never have to worry about that.

"Mia?" Worry and hurt clouded his voice as he spoke to me. It was only then that I zoned back to reality.

"Is this some kind of sick joke to you?"

Astonishment and puzzlement soon took over his features. I, too, had not expected to say that. However, as fury quickly seeped through me, anger was the only thing I could manage to utter.

It was stupid of me to believe that Finn Laurel, the man who had specifically told me he was incompetent to love me back, even after the years he had been gone for, could truly be proficient of adoration.

Don't be idiotic, Mia, my heart spoke for the first time; the man finally admitted his love.

Notwithstanding how much I wanted to jump in joy and kiss Finn until we were both breathless, I had to stay rational. I cannot afford being the same weak and dense little girl I was four years ago. Forgiving was something I could do easily, but forgetting was not.

"I'm sorry, did I do anything wrong?"

At that, I let out of humorless laugh. It was too enlightening, how yet after the pain, he has put me through, he could not, until now, understand what it is that he has done.

"What is it that you haven't done? Finn, you must realize that you have put me through so much, and that I am not the same, naïve Mai; I am not going to wait for you to apologize and tell me you love me, so that I will fall back into your arms. I am not that Mia anymore."