Chapter 1

I keep your photograph and I know it serves me well, I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away...

Susan sat looking at old photographs, Julie had gone to her dad's for the weekend so she was alone with her thoughts and the memories of when her and Mike were together. Why does this happen to me? Why couldn't everything just go right for once? She thought to herself, her first husband, Carl, had left her for another woman, and now she'd found out Mike isn't what he'd been pretending to be. So it was pretty safe to say she didn't have the best luck when it came to men. And that was an understatement. But she thought it would've been better this time, Mike just seemed so perfect, everything you'd want in a man. But it would seem she was wrong.

Susan sighed, she remembered the first day she met Mike, he looked so gorgeous, she didn't think she'd stand a chance with him at the time, so when he showed interest in her, she was over the moon. Now she just wished she'd never met him, then at least she'd be alone and content, instead of alone and heartbroken.

There was a knock at the door, part of her wished it was Mike, apologising for everything and begging for her to come back, but it wasn't it was Bree, who'd been worried about Susan seeing as she hadn't been out much since the break up.

' Hey, Susan'

'Hi Bree, what can I do for you'

''I just wanted to see how you are'

'I'm fine'

'Really?'

'No'

With that, Susan burst into tears and explained to Bree how she really was, and how much the break up had affected her. She knew that Bree would understand, seeing as Bree had recently been through the same thing with her husband, Rex.

Finally, Susan managed to calm down, she now felt a little bit better now she'd confided in someone and didn't have to keep it all bottled up. Just then she heard someone call her name, she recognised it straight away, it was Mike, she realised she was still in love with him, but she wasn't sure whether she could trust him.

'What do you want, Mike?' Susan asked, her feelings of anger for Mike came flooding back to her, yet she still felt like spending the rest of her life with him.

'I want to explain, explain what happened, I'll tell you everything, and I promise it'll be the truth this time'

'Well I don't wanna hear it Mike, I've already said what I want to say, and you have the nerve to come back, to try and make me forgive you, well guess what, it's never gonna happen! I'm broken, and it's all because of you. I was a fool for letting you into my life, I was a fool for thinking I could trust, but that's all I ever was to you, wasn't it? I fool, someone who'd easily fall for your lies just because I'd been hurt before!'

'Susan, that's not true, I love you, and I only lied because I was terrified of losing you'

'Well that's just hard luck, isn't it? Because you already have!'

Chapter 2

Because I'm broken when I'm lonesome, and I don't feel right when you're gone away.

Susan was glad Julie was due to come home to day; she'd missed having her around, especially since Mike was gone. The think she was dreading though, was seeing Carl, since Susan had started her relationship with Mike, Carl had always doubted it would last, and Susan hated it that he was right.

To be continued….