The Breakup

by Jakespeed207

Life is a fickle thing, but most can agree it's almost never as happy as certain entertainment outlets show. What happens when a girl's feelings change after graduating from Vincennes Private Girls' Academy, leaving her one-year-younger boyfriend behind? Just like life, love is also a fickle thing, especially in inexperienced hands. (Short beginning chapters)

1. Chapter 1

I could see the ground in front of me. I recognized that I was standing in the middle of an empty alleyway. But that's as far as I knew.

There was no one around, and the only sound that rang out was the sound of falling rain, which drenched my body and soaked me to the bone.

But I didn't feel it.

I didn't feel anything but the despair that was clawing at my very soul.

I leaned against a wall and threw my head back, calling out a name to the sky.

"Ayaka-saaaaan!"

I let the cry continue until my lungs could go no more, then closed my mouth and slid down the wall until I was in a sitting position. I palmed my head in my hands, sobs shaking my frame.

"Why…?"

"I'm sorry, Masaya-kun… But… There's… someone else. I've… fallen in love with someone else…"

Those words chased themselves in circles around my head, driving me to the edge of insanity. I leaned back and smashed the back of my head against the wall, trying fruitlessly to forget, but all I managed was nearly giving myself a concussion.

Finally, left with nothing else, I slumped forward and let loose the floodgates of my eyes. I cried, unabashedly, for the girl that I loved. The girl whose heart had found another.

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