1. Heartbreak

"I really didn't want to hurt you"
"We are just better off as friends"
"There's someone else"
"She just makes me happy"
"I love you but..."
Fights, drama, cheating, lies, trust, hurt, blame. high-school.
It always starts out so well. The gentle hesitations. Hope for the future. Feelings that gives you butterflies. Anticipation of what is to come. "The honeymoon stage". Then comes the little quarrels, the jealousy, the regrets, the disappointments. Then finally the end.
But is it really the end?
The feelings linger, the regrets continue to pour in, the "what if this wouldn't have happened", or the "if I just would have done this one thing", the fights, the things you didn't say & the things you wish you would have said, the dirty looks, the sadness, the loneliness.
He is always the guy you never saw coming, the light through all the darkness, the little smile you need to get you through the day.
And then it is all gone.
You feel weird when you see him, you started out strangers, and you have now returned to be the same.
You know it is for the best because no one should make you feel the way you do. But yet there is still a glimmer of hope whispering in your ear saying that it will all return back to the way things were. But it won't, and it can't.
The continual cycle of heartbreak.