Fifty-Four

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They clog my throat. The holding back isn't helping the situation, it never has. If I weren't such a hopeless romantic, then my heart wouldn't be broken. Especially since I had the chance to save him. Don't cry.

I looked downward seeing his blood, thinking nothing but how I caused all of this. He assured me it wasn't me, before he jumped.

He said something about his mind telling him things so much that he began destroying himself from the inside, and if he didn't end it now-everyone would see it.

Oh, if only I had been there for him. Or maybe have told him how I felt about him, but he's not the first. No, he's the..fifty-third. Yeah.

List of boyfriends and how/where/why they broke up with me-
1. George:using ice cream
2. Hunter:a dead animal, my dog
3. Terence:making out with my sister
4. Richard:cussing me out on my birthday-in a storm
5. Sean:a wood carving
6. Will:music-my passion
7. Cameron:prom
8. Jacob:on the seventh date saying he got someone pregnant
9. Joshua:through a poem
10. Derek:a math equation
11. Jeremy:during a make out session
12. Wallace:through my favorite movie
13. Andrew:when I found him in bed with my best friend
14. Jerald:flowers and chocolate ice cream
15. Devon:Legos
16. Henry:in the lake
17. Xavier:fighting over a game
18. Luke:a robot
19. Decamron:climbing through my window
20. Theo:truth or dare
21. Declan:in the forest
22. Malik:throwing up on me
23. Isaac:while I was preforming
24. Josh:a stuffed animal
25. William:rock climbing
26. Wilson:jumping off a waterfall-he broke his back
27. Brian:texting me
28. Tyler:moving-the only guy who actually loved me back
29. Carson:during his baseball game
30. Mason:cancer
31. Madison:his parents were getting divorced
32. Jackson:his fear of spiders gave him a coma because one was on the dashboard-car wreck
33. Thomas:silent treatment
34. Steve:dropping me off in the middle of nowhere
35. Jeffery:a sobbing phone call
36. Evan:in third period chemistry
37. Quince:at the beach (with a blonde)
38. Zackery:dating another guy
39. Liam:claiming he was moving to Europe
40. Samuel:through a drawling
41. Victor:overdose
42. Oscar:abusing me
43. Patrick:depression
(saying I was the cause of it)
44. James:drunk driving
45. Juan:smoking till he was high
46. Chance:at my mother's birthday party
47. Ben:kissing his "aunt" Marie (she was once my friend)
48. Austin:broken ribs because I "made" him cross the street
49. Cory:amnesia-sadly he never liked me (he said so when I asked him)
50. Ivan:rape-no details are needed for this one
51. Darold:I was too much of a pain
52. Ethan:murdered
53. Brad:jumping off a cliff

A tear fell down my cheek as I walked the long road home. I wiped it away swiftly, not wanting to show sadness to another boyfriend.

How many times can a girl's heart be broken before she has nothing left to break?

I dialed his number knowing, no matter what time, he'd pick up. The current time was exactly 2:37 am, and my best (and only) friend picked up.

"Hello, Sara. Everything ok?" Dominic asked in a groggy voice, giving away that he had been sleeping.

"He-e. B-rad. Cli-ff. Jumped. D-d-dead." I broke down, sobbing uncontrollably.

"Sara. Do you need me to come and get you?" Dominic's gentle voice asked.

I nodded, forgetting he wasn't there with me.

He understood however,"Where are you?"

"I-I-m near t-the water-fal-l. By the-c-lif-f."

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