Broken Hearts

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- Hey, babe, where have you been? I looked up for you all morning. - I grabbed her in the waist to kiss her when she turned her face and stepped back, smiling. - What's so funny?

- You. Your kindness. You're such an idiot, Ethan! The perfect guy to 'have fun with no payment'! - she laughs.

- What are you talking about? Don't be silly...! - I smiled. I tried kiss her again, but she stepped back again.

- Stop! Can't you see that I don't want to be with you anymore? You're an wasting time! - she said. - I need a real man with me, rich, good. Not a richie rich like you!

- But what about all we've been through?

- Tell me: I'm a good actress, aren't I?

I was so furious that I hit her in the face and she fell down. But she was still laughing.

- So you've been using me all this time just to have sex?! How could you? I told you things about me that I've never told to anybody!

- If I were you, I would be more careful to whom I tell that kind of things.

I walked away and I went home. Inside of my head, I still could hear her laughing of me. While I was walking, I was so furious that I kicked a trash bin and the ground got dirty around it with its stuff.

- Come on, Abigail, let's go to the party...please? - said Thomas. Of course I didn't deny. - Thanks, you're the best girlfriend in the world you know?

He only says that when I do what he wants. I'm getting tired of that, seriously! But I love him...what can I do with that puppy face? He's so cute!

In that night, after a long time in the party, I asked him to go home. But he said no. I know he was having fun, but I wasn't in a party mood...and I waited a few more minutes.

- Tom, can we go now, please? - I asked him, again.

- Babe, if you want to go home, then go. I'll stay here for a while with them.

I knew it would happen. I do what he wants and he doesn't even care about me! As I said, I went back home. But, while I was getting out of Tami's house, three boys came to me and invited me to go out with them. And as I said no, they started beating me so much that I fell on the ground. I cried, I screamed and when someone said to them to stop, and helped me getting up, they left the party and disappeared. I noticed that Thomas was watching all that scenario and didn't do anything to stop them. Why? Why this has to happen to me?! He didn't seem worried! Just smiled to his friends and went inside of Tami's house!

On the following day...

- Abigail, I'm so sorry for not helped you last night... - he said.

- Forget it, Thomas! Don't even try apologize yourself! I do everything for you and you don't even care about me! It's all about you and how you feel and I'm sick of this! I could have died last night and you stood there looking at me doing nothing to help!

- Oh, yeah? And what about that afternoon that I saved you from another two guys?

- They were my brother and my cousin Mike! And they were just surprised to see me in the same place! Please...don't ever talk to me again! - I ran away to cry alone in a peaceful place, where no one could see me.

I ended up at a small bridge over the clean river. I looked at it and I just wanted to jump. I sat on the fence and when I was ready to jump off, a voice came behind me.

- What do you think you're doing? - said the guy.

- Is not obvious? I don't want to keep living. Life sucks!

- Problems, huh? Well, I guess they won't get solved with your death. You're just running away from them.

- And who are you to telling me that? I didn't ask for advice!

- First: I'm a person, just like you; and second: go ahead if that's what you really want to do... Do you mind if I stay here, watching? - he smiled.

Oh my God! What's going on with boys?! Are they always like that? For God's sake! Please, take me off of this film!

- Have you changed your mind? - he asked.

- Stop bothering me! Don't you have anything else to do? Geez! - I went down to the ground and I grabbed my bag again. - And don't even think about following me!

- What makes you think I would follow you? - he asked.

- Leave me alone!!! - I ran back home.

When I was closer to my house, I walked to my door and arrived home. What's wrong with him? I couldn't stop thinking in the last thing he said. What a jerk!

- Abigail, you're home! - my big sister said. - Did you forgot something? What's wrong?

- Nothing. Tell mom and dad that I don't feel so good. I'm going to my room now.