This is the prologue of my newest story. It most likely won't be as long as my others (prologue+6 chaps+epilogue), but I think you all will like it. Let me know what you think!
With tears streaming down her cheeks, Gabriella Montez placed the phone back in the cradle and slid down the wall to the floor. She was sure she had done the right thing; or at least semi sure… Okay, maybe she wasn't sure at all, but she still felt like her world was caving in. He deserved more than what she could give him. He deserved a girl that he could take to dinner and snuggle on the couch in front of a fireplace with, not someone on the other side of the country; a girl with flexibility to work with his hectic basketball schedule, not someone busy with school and over involved in extracurricular activities. Her head was telling her she was right, but her heart was aching.
She lifted the bottle in her hand to her lips and took another swig. This wasn't fair. Children grow up listening to fairy tales and having big dreams, and then enter into the real world only for their dreams to be smashed to pieces. Then again, everyone always said life isn't fair.
Angrily, she threw the bottle across her empty bedroom and watched it shatter against the wall. She immediately cursed herself. What a stupid thing to do. She worked so hard, almost obsessively, to keep her dorm room spotless over the past couple months in order to get her full security deposit back, and now there was no chance of that with red wine all over the wall and floor. Even if she could find some magic cleaner to get it out, she had to be out in the morning so there wasn't time.
She leaned her head back and it hit the wall with a thud. Thankfully, she couldn't feel it at the moment. She closed her eyes, willing herself to fall asleep. In the morning she would have a new apartment, a new roommate, a new start for her freshman year of college, and a monster headache.