Second Chances for Tyler Landry

The Guy Who Forgot

Mackenzie Lowly is falling apart at the seems.

Everyday she walks into school and she sees him. She sees him like it was the first time they started talking and she knew she was destined to have something to do with this hardcore stoner manwhore.

She sees him.

But he doesn't see her.

He stopped looking at her after a while, at first it was just one day.

Then three days.

Then a week.

Her life was draining out of her. People told her to forget about him or to just ignore him and he'd come to her in no time.

But, how could she forget someone who she has so many memories with? How could she forget the guy who lodged himself into her brain like a cold sore?

Her dreams were haunted by his presence. He'd appear, sick lying on a couch in her living room, and she would walk over and let him embrace her, kiss the top of her head. As a way to say that he was sorry that he would never change.

Like he was sorry that he was making her go through this. She'd try to hold his hand, do something, but he'd just pull away and say no. Not to reject her, but to protect her.

At some part, she'd kiss him on his lips, with a single, I know.

And she'd wake up.

She'd wake up to face the reality that he had forgotten about her. She felt like self destructing, she felt like she was in so much pain that the only thing to do...

Was to die.

She had come to this conclusion over the period of a month where they lost contact after she started to ignore him.

It became a disease, how much she missed him.

It felt like all the time she had spent with him only meant something to her and nothing to him.

Because now he was hanging out with his old friends, and the girls who came with them. The girls that she had once considered horrifically naive, but harmless enough, now stood between her and the only thing she wanted out of life.

Mackenzie just wanted to be put out of her misery.

Because, it was too hard to forget about the guy who forgot about her.