Dumb little oneshot that came to me on the way to school this morning.
Disclaimer: Not mine, nothing you recognise is mine.
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She'd tried so hard to help. Had tried time and time again to get through to him that everything would be ok. Spent so long trying to convince him everything would be alright. But he hadn't listened.
Instead he'd broken her heart.
And she'd let it happen. She'd seen the end coming, but hadn't been brave enough to end it before her heart shattered. And so he'd walked away, leaving her alone once more.
She tried to tell herself it would be ok, tried to convince herself that everything would be alright, just as she had once tried to convince him.
She'd fought so hard for him, and she hadn't wanted to let it go. They'd been through so much, and it was hard to say that it had all been for nothing. Her friends told her to move, to forget, that he was a cheating scumbag, someone who didn't deserve all she had to give.
He'd cheated, he'd lied, he'd hurt her. Saying that the pain was too much, that his grief was too much. That she deserved someone better. And still she'd wanted to hold on.
But the time apart gave her the space to think for herself again, not having to worry about what his reaction would be, without wondering if he thought it would be a good idea. She cried, she screamed, her heart bled for a long time, even though her logical mind knew it was for the best.
Facing him at work had been hard, working with him in such close proximity had been hard. The flirting and the jokes they had once shared were gone, the annoying nickname that she'd grown to love gone too. They were just co-workers now.
He didn't want her. Didn't love her as she's once loved him. So she taught herself not to want him, not to love him, not to care about what he did. Even when she saw him flirting with other women when he knew she was there, she forced herself to smile and carry on as normal.
She'd never been in the wrong. He had. And even if he felt no guilt, she wasn't going to take a burden that wasn't hers. Not anymore.
From time to time, after the whole mess had passed, she caught him staring wistfully at her when he thought she wasn't looking, and when her heart told her yes, she forced herself to say no. No longer would she put herself through this pain. Everyone had warned her, but she hadn't listened. She wasn't about to make the same mistake twice.
And now she's moving on. She walked past him in the lab that morning, and the ache that had accompanied her heart for so long was no longer there, the throbbing pain of loss not hurting her anymore. He'd looked the same as he always did, but now, there was nothing there. No pain, no love, nothing. She looked him in the eye, and blinked once before turning back to her friend. He was no longer part of her life. She was free.
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