And so this is how it is supposed to end?
Trip, heartbroken and defeated.
Defeated?
How was he defeated if he defeated all of his enemies?
After all he did have some close calls but he always won no matter what.
Always winning does not make one a winner.
Trip was a loser.
He wasn't a loser because he always won, but he was a loser because he lost the fight that mattered the most; the battle of his heart.
He had los t that battle before he started it; it is impossible to change somebody else's heart.
Trip was slowly deteriorating as a person; its impossible for someone to take this kind of emotional stress and not have their body take any punishment. Why was it that Trip had to be punished?
Why did Trip have to be punished because he loved somebody?
Who's fault was it that Trip was where he was now?
His best friend, the girl, who told Trip she wanted to be his best friend, threw Trip and his brothers under the bus; she was no longer friends with Trip.
The girl, the one he loved had broken his heart for the last time for a number of reasons.
He no longer had a heart.
He thought he could abate all this nonsense by moving out, but he had to stay home.
Who is to blame for all this?
Is it the girl's fault that she threw him under the bus?
Is it his parents fault Trip was still stuck in a nightmare?
Is it HER fault that Trip's heart was no more?
Trip had one person to blame, and this person was himself. He was under a tremendous amount of pain, so much so he felt like it was haunting him. Every other girl he saw looked like HER. He would be asleep, and she would appear in his dream. The dream then turned into a nightmare. A dream is no longer a dream when it causes one pain and terror. The pain was unbearable, but Trip took it. The weight on his shoulders was heavy, but Trip carried it. The pressure of the pain forced Trip back, but Trip pushed on.
And here is our hero Trip. The main character in the story. In the beginning Master AT told Trip that there was always a way. But we know now from experience that there isn't. There is absolutely no way possible that Trip could change HER mind. She had accurately demonstrated time and time again that she wanted no part of Trip's love, except for what she could take advantage of. Trip hated the darkness in him, he hated what the girl had done to him. It was absolutely ridiculous, and he decided he would let her know it, weather she wanted to hear it or not.