Hearts are strange

Chapter 3

I turned around and saw Marcy running towards me. She started to pant for breath as she reached up to me. I offered her some water and said,"Take it easy girl."
"I'm sorry shouting your name behind you like a nerd.", She said shyly.
She looked so cute and vulnerable!

"Hey it's okay. Everything fine?", I asked. She always made me worry about her.

"Yeah it's just, I'm a bit sad."

"Sad because of what?"

"Because I overheard your heated up conversation with Jennifer. To be honest, everyone did"

Shit! I had not noticed her there.

"Leave it. Anyway you needed something that you called me?"

"Answer this first! Why did you two broke up!? You both made the best and the most badass couple!", She asked unhappily.

This was perhaps the question that did hurt the most. I was speechless,my tongue seemed to be tied up and I was screaming on the inside. Why did she just leave and fade away? She could have held my broken pieces and prevented me from falling apart, vulnerable and fucked up. Misunderstandings could have been sorted smoothly if we could have kept our ego aside and had shown some maturity. I realised that, if she had ignored me, I too hadn't walked up to her and said that I was always there for her no matter what came in our way. My anger turned out to be my stupidity, which in turn cursed me with the worst punishment I could get ever in my life: losing Jennifer.

I knew I was flawed and fucked up. But she had accepted that side of me and loved me endlessly. And then, all of a sudden she started hating me. Was this LOVE? Was unloving someone so easy? Did unloving sort out all the problems we had, or it rather added up more. I had several questions which always kept ramming against my mind, but I had the answers to none. I knew and respected the fact that it was Jennifer's life afterall, and she had the right to decide what and whom she wanted in it. But there was a time when she regarded me as 'her life'...... What happened to that? What happened to all those promises, those wonderful memories, those late night chats and all those fantastic things between us? All just faded away so easily?

I never wanted to let her go, because I needed her so much. Because without her, I feared that o would go back to my fucked up self. I loved Jennifer, and only her, notwithstanding the fact that maybe she hated me. Was my concept and belief in love too stupid and dumb, or was it too real for this fake world?

Marcy gave my hand a tug,"Hello Mr hotshot! Are you still in this world?", She asked.

"Umm.... Yes.... Maybe....", I started stuttering.

"It's okay. I won't ask you about all those things anymore. I know exactly how you must be feeling. Don't worry, things will obviously get better for someone so good as you. Now cheer up Mr hotshot!", She said playfully, in order to console me.

"Thanks.", I managed to say. She made me feel better.

"Oh yeah! Actually my mom is not at home now, and I don't have my house keys. So, may I stay in your house until she arrives. I hope you and your mom won't mind. Sorry for the inconvenience.", She said apologetically.

"Yeah sure you may hop in! Let me talk to my mom, if you don't mind.", I said.
Marcy used to come to my house frequently, because she lived just two blocks away.

"Of course I won't mind. Ask her.", She said happily.

I texted my mom:
Marcy's mom is not in the house and would not be back until evening. Marcy does not house keys. So she wants to stay in our house for the time being. I hope you won't mind her staying for a few hours.