Chapter 48

Heartbreak usually comes in different ways. Sometimes, it’s you holding your heart out as it is gushing out with hot tears that is as thick as blood. Sometimes, it is you hurting inside without having enough words to speak outside. All just because everything hurts inside. It was not merry. It was nothing too far, too close. But I just wanted to get away. I was not heartbroken. At least not yet, but I could not say the same for the man I was staring at. The same man I had been staring at for two minutes, which had felt like the first two hours of my first life.

The bell was ringing hard and loud. The twinkle of my last words flying around me and Adam. And I was waiting, waiting for him to say something. But I knew I had to continue. I did not understand why I was stalling since this was what I wanted at the end of the day. But why did I feel like my heart was being shattered over and over again over something I had no control over. Adam had been staring at me like I was a statue. In