Not Your Average Cliche Love Story (Wattys2015)

3. The Heartbreak

3. The Heartbreak

"It just hurts, you know?" Allison said through her tears. She sniffed and then started crying again.

"Yeah, I know. It's called heartbreak. About two billion songs written about it." I said, emotionlessly patting her back as she sobbed into my shoulder. Now, before you label me as heartless I want to tell you that this happened once every two months and she got over it the next day. And since Liam Lion was involved I had been expecting it soon enough.

Allison gathered herself, blowing her nose into a tissue from the Kleenex box I'd brought into my room and sniffed, brushing her tears away. Meanwhile, I was annoyed. I was more than just annoyed at Liam Lion. I was furious with him. How dare he lead my best friend on and then break her heart? So I did what you always do when you're furious with someone. I tweeted it to my 3 thousand followers.

@RacHELL: What a jerk.

Two minutes later I checked my Twitter again. And lo and behold, I saw the dreaded tweet.

@TheLion: What a bitch.

The scoundrel was sub-tweeting me. Well, two could play at that game.

@RacHELL: What is his problem? He's the one at fault here.

And as expected a minute later the reply came.

@TheLion: No, I'm not.

@RacHELL: YOU broke HER heart as I recall.

@TheLion: She will get over it.

@RacHELL: Oh, yeah?! How do you know?! #PeaBrain

@TheLion: Because she is not in love with me and I am not in love with her. I am in love with someone else.

At that point I'd had enough. I didn't need his sob story.

@RacHELL: Whatever.

And this little event leads up to numero cuatro. The Rebound.