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Chapter Two

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The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and my eyes started watering when I realized that it was just a dream.

Eli never came back for me. He was with her, happy.

And me alone, unhappy.

But I will not cry today. I blinked back my tears.

Today, I will be strong. I am strong. I tried to convince myself.

Just as I finished that thought, a traitor tear slipped past my lidded eyelids and down my face. My eyes flashed open as they followed that single tear gliding down my face. Before I knew it, my hands formed a fist as I wiped it away angrily. No. Not today, I am going to be strong today.

A ding from my phone stirred my thoughts away from the problem at hand.

Glancing at my phone, I cupped my mouth my hand. That was a mistake. She had tagged me in a post. It showed them laughing candidly into the camera. And in the background was their newly purchased house. Or rather, Eli's and I's house. We were supposed to live there. We had planned exactly where everything would go. I dreamt of living there with him.

What did I do to deserve this? My fingers curled around my phone as I seethed in anger.

The caption wrote, 'This is our place, we make the rules.'

I wanted to scream at her. I closed my eyes and imagined her in front of me. With both my hands around her shoulders, I would scream at her, "Stop taking the things I love most from me. Give me back Eli, my house, my life." What started off in a strong voice, soon ended in a sad, lifeless whisper. My eyes opened and my dream of shaking some sense into her shattered.

I raised the hand that still held on to my phone and threw it against the wall. It felt as if time was slowed as my eyes followed the pieces that shattered. The now useless device fell on the floor. Its screen shattered.

That shattered screen resembled my life. Resembled me. A piece of garbage. Just like how all the other guys and now Eli saw me. Just like how everybody in this Goddamn world saw me as.

It was as if my feet had a life of its own. They brought me to the toilet where my eyes fell upon a razor.

Maybe its time for me to end it.

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