Heartbreaker - Episode 1

Buns And Dichotomy

The hot-dog guy was just standing there, stunned. He held a sausage in his pincers and was just staring at me. The sausage slipped and fell on the ground. With no reaction, he just picked up another one and put it in the bun.

His impatient customer was eyeing me and him, biting down his words. Boy, he really wanted to complain.

Such impatience.

You see, I had just delivered the news to the poor man. His girlfriend, practically a fiancee since they had met the parents and all, wanted to break up with him. I had just showed up, told him who I was and what the message was.

It wasn't really that hard, getting this business off the ground. We emailed the customers back, limited the service to Athens and asked for the mementos. People paid, and I handled their breakups.

I took the golden apple from my pocket and showed it to the hot dog guy. He took it and popped it open. It was a crumpled piece of paper, a common receipt, yellowed out by time and the letters blurry. I didn't ask, but I assumed it was his first sale with his hot dog cart.

As he has fighting back tears, he prepared the customer's hot dog.

"Come on, my lunch hour is half-way gone!" the customer said, not caring about the situation.

The hot dog guy squeezed the mustard and as if it was symbolic, let the tears go and sobbed. The mustard squirted everywhere, I got some on my shoes. But the customer got the brunt of it, looked down on his suit and cursed at us, then walked away in fury.

I didn't mind about the mustard. If anything, it would be an improvement over my cheap flat shoes.

You see, there is no progress without discord. There are always two sides, competing. There are always breakups and fights. It's how we move on.

I looked up Harmony's social profile. She posted a selfie of her on the train. She commented that she was moving back to her hometown, away from the ugly city. She had made a new friend, a girl that was sitting next to her on the train. They had taken the picture together, just like Harmony and I did so many times.

That stung a little.

I picked up a whole crate of fake-apples from Abigail. She had painted them glistening gold, they were perfect. Ryan liked the idea a lot, so everyone was happy.

Ryan replaced the 'BadNews' logos and the stickers in his office with 'Heartbreaker.' As of that day, I was the fourth member of the startup.

I also looked up the Cretan scary guy. He had a rather active social account with guns. He posted a picture of him in the gun range, a sexy and voluptuous girl at his side while he held up a rifle. "Met my new #bae today, #happy," followed by gun emoticons.

Well, he got over Lily easily.

Some people might profit from the fighting and the breakups. But can you really blame them? Blame us? Is it really that bad in the end? Through change, comes life. And life, is all that we have in this world.

End of Episode 1