Heart Ache

Prologue

A/N: Hello!!  Lucy here :D This is my first story so I really hope you enjoy it and decide to give your feedback.  I really want to know how well in 1st POV I do!!!!

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Prologue

"I'm moving."

With those two words, it seemed like my brain completely shut down.

I'm moving.

My heart clenched so tightly that I thought it might burst and I forced myself to breathe, at least to talk to Ty as long as I could.  I stared at him, willing this to be a dream and to wake up from this horrible nightmare.

I never woke up.

In fact, it was never a dream.

"Where?" I finally managed to say, but my voice sounded distant even to me.  This couldn't be happening.  No...

"Back to my birth place.  In Britain," Ty replied,  his voice perfectly controlled, like he didn't even care that he had just shattered my heart into a million pieces and burnt them with his words.  There was nothing left inside me any more.  I was sure that if I checked my pulse, I'd find none.

I stared into his eyes, the dark brown eyes I'd fallen so hard for.  He was so beautiful, but I was probably the only one who thought so.  Not handsome, not hot, not sexy, maybe a little cute, but there was just something about him that was beautiful.  Maybe it was his eyes, like melted dark chocolate, or his longish blond hair that never stayed put. 

No, I realized, it was him.  Just him.  It was the way he looked appalled when I or one of his friends swore, and the way he always held the door open for people, and the way that I always knew he was hiding something from me.  Maybe it was even the way he was able to jumble my mind and thoughts and confuse me like nobody else could and make me wonder whether I was crazy or not.

The tears were coming quickly, and it was all I could do to keep them at bay.  My vision became blurry and my hands began to tremble.  What would Ty think if I suddenly broke down in front of him?  What would his friends think?  We were supposed to be enemies, after all, and they hated me.  I wasn't too fond of them either.

"G-guess that means I won't ever have to look at your face again," I said, trying to play off everything I was feeling and trying to appear confident and careless like I usually did in front of him.  It was hopeless.  No horrible insult or threat could cover up what I was feeling just then.

Ty stared at me.  There was something whirling in his deep, dark eyes.  He didn't seem all that happy either.  I wanted to believe it was because he didn't want to leave me, but why would he love somebody like me?  The crazy bad girl who's made fun of him and teased him since she met him freshman year?  I was the total opposite to his caring, kind, innocent self.  That was why I loved him so badly.

"Rose..." Ty trailed off.  This was serious.  He didn't call me Rosie.  He only did that when we were messing around, because he knew I hated it.  When it came from him, though, it was the best name ever.  "I never told you."

"Never told me what?" I asked, my heart picking up speed.  Maybe...no, I couldn't get my hopes up.  He'd just crush them, like he hurt me every single day for the past two years and two months that I didn't know whether he loved me or not, even though the chances, honestly, were very little.

Ty hesitated.  It looked like he was trying to choose his words.  Finally, giving up, he said, "I love you, Rose."

And that was where my whole world completely stopped.

"And you didn't decide to tell me this earlier?"

Maybe a normal person would've stuttered and asked if this was real, or ran into his arms screaming, "I love you too!" But I never claimed to be a normal person, and I certainly wasn't going to then.  A normal person's mind might also have been in a jumbled state, but my mind quickly connected everything together.  He loved me, he said so, that was all that muttered.  I just wanted to know why he waited to tell me.

"I couldn't," said Ty, looking a little surprised at my reaction, or maybe lack thereof.  "I...I just need to know, do you love me?"

"Yes," I answered without any hesitation.  "You've known that.  Since ninth grade."

He nodded.  "Good."

Then he walked out the door, and out of my life.

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Song: My Happy Ending by Avril Lavigne

There ya go!!  Prologue complete.  Poor Rosie :'( Why would he do that????  And is anybody lucky enough to know a guy like Ty?  I do!!!  So vote and follow if you liked, comment even if you didn't!!!  I need the feedback!!!  Especially if you want another chapter!!!

~Love Lucy~