Chapter 1: Now - Winter, January - After School

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I never knew three words could mess up a person.

'Let's break up.'

People change and that's something I just don't seem to ever understand. I don't like change at all.

I loved him, I really did.

No, I do, no matter how much I try my best not to like him, I still have the feelings, the promises, the memories.

When did it seem like this was going to happen?

What did I do wrong?

Why are things changing all of a sudden?

What happened to all the promises we had made to each other?

This can't be happening. Everything felt so great just a few weeks ago. I don't believe this is happening.

So many questions. There's so many voices in my head.

It's like he just took my whole heart and just ripped it right out of my body. Like he's dragging me on the floor. Crushing every bone inside of me. I hold my chest. I can't breathe. Am I even breathing?

My vision is so hazy, my heart feels so heavy, like I'm underwater drowning in my own body with the weight of my heart.

When people tell me how they get heartbroken I always tell them 'You just haven't found the right person like me, I found my person.' I've always bragged. But now I've noticed how wrong I was. Do I even know who my person is?

So this was what they felt when they got heartbroken.

He says we have nothing between us anymore. No spark. No connection. No love.

But yet he found another love.

I trusted him as much as he trusted me. I never had the doubt that he'll ever lose feelings for me.

'Was I really not enough?'

All this time I was thinking towards the future, the ways we could develop together, while he was thinking of ways to break my heart. I just thought we were getting better together

Why am I this naive?

He's harsh with his words. 'I don't love you anymore.'

My ears are ringing, like the noise of a mic in such low quality, ringing louder and louder.

He's dumping me today and the next he gets to be with his next. Just like that.

Who knew the nice guys can be so cruel?

Does he not care about anything we've done together?

I feel like an idiot. What the hell am I doing? Am I really trying to fix this right now? All he's doing is smiling at me. Does he even know what I feel right now?

'Together forever. Trust and loyalty and we'll work things out.

One of our last few promises.

All this time I have tried my best to always make us work out. Even after we argue at times, in the end we clear things up and apologize.'

Why is it always me who gets hurt the most?

It feels like I'm being cursed.

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