CHAPTER ONE

How to break a heart

"What's wrong Danny?" Jane asked as she looked deeply, lovingly into Danny's sad, blue eyes.

Danny looked away.

He couldn't look at her.

He felt her hand touch his face, "What's wrong Danny?" she asked again, "You're scaring me."

Why could he not love her, she was perfect.

The way her eyes sparkled when she smiled, the way her lips curved in the corners, the way her long, dark hair framed her delicate features, she was beautiful, the way she laughed at him when he wasn't funny, but most of all the way she loved him.

He could feel it, see it in her eyes and hear it in her soft, comforting voice.

She didn't need to say it, he knew all to well.

He wished more than anything that he could return her love.

"Danny?" she asked, he could sense the fear in her voice.

He couldn't do this to her anymore, it wasn't fair, he didn't love her, he never had, and he never could, not when he was so in love with someone else.

He lifted his head and forced himself to look into her dark, amber eyes, "I'm sorry Jane… I don't love you."

Danny felt horrible but at the same time he felt like a weight had been lifted, he had wanted, needed to say that for so long but he knew that this was just the beginning, there was so much more he had to say.

Jane said nothing, she didn't need to say anything, Danny could see the tears that had formed in her eyes and were slowly trickling down her rosy cheeks.

She didn't deserve this.

But Danny knew he had to tell her, she deserved to be with someone who could return the kind of love she felt for him.

"She'll forget all about me, she'll fall in love again." Danny told himself, trying to make the ache he felt inside, the ache of guilt and sympathy disappear, but it did little to comfort him and he knew it would do nothing for her.

Danny might not love her but that didn't mean he didn't care for her, he did.

He cared for her very much, she was kind, she understood him, she made him laugh, she made him smile, they had many good times together but he didn't love her.

Not like he loved Dougie.