This concept is from a Barenaked Ladies song "Just A Toy" hence the title! None of the lyrics are used, but references to them is used.
"I saw it in her eyes. When she returned all tattered and torn. With him.
Her clothes were ripped and she had dirt on her face but her eyes lit up. Not when she looked at me. When she looked at him. He volunteered to go rescue her. I surely didn't mind seeing he was one of my best friends.
Used to be at least...
I felt awful inside, like I had been stabbed with a million sharp needles that just kept reentering me over and over."
He removed a knife from his pocket and began to carve in a nearby tree.
"He wasn't the good type for her...sure he seemed to be nice and innocent but there were reasons his other relationships didn't work out. Each girl had found him lying to them. I tried to tell her, warn her atleast...
She didn't listen.
She only thought I was trying to get her to leave him. He wasn't worthy of her but I couldn't make her see that. "
He turned from the tree with the knife still in his hand he swung around slamming the knife into the tree. He smirked.
"I went to their wedding. Everything her color. Everything done by her. The way I would have I would have loved it. They said their vows, and then it made me think of how she said I'd always be hers forever...Forever never lasted long enough for me. She had the nerve of looking me straight in the eye and smiling. Like she had this plan...to use me..."
He looked at his artwork which beard a heart with the initials carved in it with the knife as an added extra.
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"Just a toy..."