Prologue
SHATTERED HEARTS
PROLOGUE
AGE 14, 3 YEARS AGO.
GAGE
I have counted the freckles on her face about five times today, but it was actually just an excuse to look at her, though I still did count them, there was seven in total, you had to be really close to count the last two and I also noticed that her blue eyes had little specks of brown in them.
“Gage, are you listening?”
She questioned me, squinting her eyes at me.
“Of course, Remi.” I said with a smile.
“Okay, then what did I just tell you?”
She asked crossing her arms over her chest.
“Ugh, you were telling me about global warming?” I said, but it sounded more like a question.
Because I was in fact not listening. She sighed loudly, causing some of the other kids in class to stare at us but it didn’t bother me I was used to Remi’s dramatic behavior, it was actually one of the things that I loved about her.
“We have been friends for five years and you still never listen.”
She complained and I laughed.
“Hey, we have been friends for way longer than five years.”
I stated and she just laughed; I love this girl so much. Yes, we’re only fourteen but I have loved her since we were six years old. I just wish there was a way I could tell her without ruining our friendship or losing her.
I mean how couldn’t I love her?
She is so beautiful, she has the prettiest smile and the most contagious laugh, eyes you could get lost in and she is kind, smart and super creative. She has the prettiest brown hair that always smelt like roses and looked really soft, she brings out the best in people me included. I love her and I’m going to tell her, today after school I just hope she feels the same.
We always walk home from school together, but I couldn’t find Remi anywhere, surely, she didn’t leave without me. I have looked everywhere for her. Wait, no I haven’t I still need to check the bleachers, Remi sometimes takes a quick smoke before we hid home.
I round the corner and there she was, but she wasn’t alone she was with a guy and not just any guy, it was Jake Michaels he was two years older than us. I felt like I’d been gutted, my insides ripped out and left to bleed on the ground. I couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, couldn’t see anything but Remi and Jake together.
I felt like I was drowning in my own sea of despair and heartbreak. When I saw his lips on hers, I wanted to throw up, I wanted to confess my feelings to her but now…now it just seemed like a joke. We’re only fourteen but my feelings are real, just as real as my now shattered heart. I thought our bond was special, a connection that went deeper than just friendship.
I didn’t know how to process this, how to deal with the pain and hurt that was suffocating me. I just had to get out of here, I turned and walked away. Leaving behind the remains of my shattered heart and the friendship that I thought we had. I couldn’t eat or sleep that night, but I eventually cried so much that I fell asleep, but I hated myself, how could I have been so stupid.
I turned into a different person after that, nothing was the same for me, I was careful making friends and I didn’t date and I was never friends with a girl again.
