Rhythm of Your Heartbreak

Prologue

She's loved him for years, but he only knows about the first year or two of her affection, because he shared her feelings. They lost contact for a few months, and once they got back in touch, they fell into an easy friendship.

Unbeknownst to him, she was steadily falling for him all over again. His slightly idiotic tendencies, how he never actually listened to her when she told him not to do something stupid, and the way he occasionally didn't know when to keep his mouth shut. How could she not fall for him? Of course, it wasn't purely personality. She did find him attractive. And the fact that he was a talented drummer didn't hurt, either.

But then came that fateful day wen she slipped up in her careful self-monitoring of her depression, and it all became too much. One of her friends snapped at her over something stupid, and it just snapped something inside her. she went home, and took some pain medication. Then she took some more, and more. She took enough to kill herself. And all the while, she had been talking to him, along with one of her girlfriends, saying goodbye, and thank you for being there for her. This sent him into a panic.

She survived this, and stayed in the hospital for a little while, recovering, finding ways to deal with depression, along with adjusting to her medication. She decided that once she was out, she was going to tell him how she felt. But, by the time she got the courage to tell him... It was too late. He had found someone else. Someone who he seemed happy with. Someone who wouldn't scare him with suicide attempts and near-death experiences. And she couldn't compete with that. Because she's just not the kind of girl who is going to sit around risk-free and not try to undo what she's done. She's got to at least try to fix things.