Prologue

The Tokyo Times: Single Girl in the City

How to Lose a Guy in 30 Days

By: Kagome Higurashi

We're all searching for something, waiting for that day where we find that pot of gold, that light at the end of the tunnel, that sense of completion. It seems as if however, that being incomplete is part of life, part of being human. We awake early in the mornings, fight through a hard days work, and fade away into the mundanity that seems to be what time is made of. Yet we carry on, because all the while there is that lingering hope that one day we'll find that one thing we're looking for. For most of us, what we desire, what we crave above all is, is love.

However, finding love within this big city has proven more troublesome and allusive then a quest for the Holy Grail, as many a single woman can attest. Many of us have been led down many roads on this journey, many which have led to dead ends. We then find ourselves on a lonely road, depressed and dejected, wondering which way to turn and what the estimated time of arrival may be. But there are no short cuts on this road, no taxis, no airplanes, and no fast forward button to unconditional love.

It is simply a road that must be traveled upon, and with the many trials and tribulations that are strewn along its path, any savvy Single Girl in the City knows that what she needs is a knowledgeable guide to lead the way.

Thus, this leads me to my newest column to appear in the Tokyo Times, a column that is devoted to any woman who has been left on that lonely road only to wonder 'What went wrong?' It For any woman who has been lead to believe that they were on the road to the altar, when in reality they were nothing more than a pit stop.

This is for any woman who has been denied the truth behind the tried and true male break-up lines. Because ladies, truth is something that we more than deserve. Think of it as one small step towards love, and one giant step for single women everywhere.

So join me over the course of thirty days as I enter a new relationship, revealing all the mistakes that women make when in a new romance. Perhaps the problem isn't a lack of fish in the ocean, or inadequate bait, perhaps it's the reckless nature of reeling them into the harbor that is the reason why so many seem to fall out of our grasp.

I'm Kagome Higurashi, your Single Girl in the City columnist, presenting to you: How to lose a guy in thirty days.

A/N: I don't know if this story as been done before, but if it has, plese let me know! I wouldn't want to take credit for something someone has already done...thank you!