Broken Girl

Once upon a time, a girl met a boy. The boy was an asshole, and the girl loved it. They talked about random nonsense, they argued, they debated, they challenged each other. And in the process of all that, the girl fell in love.1

When the girl told the boy, he rejected her outright. The girl was hurt, but she was willing to accept that he simply didn't feel that way about her. So, they continued to talk, to argue, to debate, and to challenge as though the girl had never confessed her feelings at all. 2

Time passed, and one drunken night, the boy brought up the girl's confession. He debated, he weighed, but he could not decide what to do about her. He didn't want to fall in love, and he was afraid that he was already falling. And so he went back and forth. 3

Yes. No. Maybe. No. Yes. No... No. 4

Time and again, the boy lifted the girl's hopes, only to let them fall again. And after one very difficult crash, the girl refused to put herself in that position again. She was tired of always trying to make things work and meeting a brick wall, heart on. 5

She ignored his occasional advances. She talked, argued, debated, and challenged as though they had never confessed their feelings at all.6

The day came when the boy moved on. He found someone else, someone he could be with, someone he could love. But he knew that the only person he would ever be IN love with, he had lost. He regretted, but he didn't look back. He was content.7

The girl found possible loves, but never anyone like the boy. Time and again she tried to fall in love, she tried to give her heart, she tried to find someone that talked to her, argued with her, debated with her, and most of all, challenged her. But she never could find The One. 8

And then it hit her. She suddenly realized why she couldn't give her heart so fully. It already belonged to someone else, someone who had moved on and refused to look back, someone who didn't even want it. 9

She had lost her heart. 10

What good is a broken girl without a heart?