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"Daniella! I refuse to allow you to stay home and sulk around! You need to get out there and try", I hear my sister say as I scoop ice cream into my spoon, shoving it into my chocolate covered mouth. With my mouth still full I look at her, "I'm not going out. I'm done with boys. They suck"

"You can't just give up, Dani!", she sighs as she sits down next to me. She puts her head on my shoulder as I close the lid of the ice cream bin. "Well I just did. I have the worst luck when it comes to love. What's the point of even trying anymore", I huff as I pull my blanket over my head.

"Dani, you'll find someone, I promise-", I remove the blanket from my head as I look at her with my staticky and disheveled hair, "That's easy for you to say, Jess. You have a fiancé—I have...I have food", I throw my hands up in the air as I throw my head into her lap. She sighs knowing that I was right, again. "You never know, Dani. Your "Mr Right" might be closer than you think"

"Yeah, he's in the fridge", I joke as I pull out a box of pizza. "You have to leave, anyways. Your fiancé is bringing you out tonight, remember?", I tell her as her eyes widen. "I completely forgot! Listen, Dani, I can stay home with you tonight and just cancel with Devon-"

"No—no! You are not going to treat me like I'm some fragile porcelain doll. I'm fine, Jessica. I'll be fine, go have fun", I tell her as I push her out of my house. "I love you", she yells as she gets into her car. "I love you too", I whisper as I close my front door. I lean against it as I bask in the silence of my home.

I pick up my phone, texting the few friends that I have, to see if they'd want to go out. Maybe I could get my mind off of things instead of on things. They immediately responded saying they can't because they were either with their significant others or on a date. I throw my phone on the couch as I sit on the edge of the stairs. Everyone had something going for them in their lives but me.

I was completely and utterly alone. "I'm so lame", I huff as I get up and turn on the television. I scream into my pillow as a romance movie pops up on the screen. "I'm so sick of love!"

I get up off the couch and pick up my phone as I dial the number for the closest pizza place. I order a large pizza for myself and hang up. "Just me, myself, and food..again"

It was like this all the time. I'd get a date, go on it, it would go smoothly and then the moment I'd get home I'd never hear from him again. Every single date that I had been on in the last year and a half consisted of this, and quite frankly, I was over it. I was even more over the fact that my parents saw my sister as the perfect daughter because she was engaged and closer to starting a family than I was. Oh how devastating it was for my parents to see their eldest daughter single and alone.

They gave me looks of pity and disapproval. They thought that as the eldest child I'd be the first to settle down, but they thought wrong. My little sister who was three years younger than me was tied down to a man and ready to settle down while I sat at home watching Hallmark movies and eating my emotions away in a giant tub of chocolate ice cream.