76. Broken Pieces
He knew that all there was left of him were broken pieces. His whole being had been destroyed and shattered over the centuries and now all there was left were pieces of his former self. The person he used to be had disappeared, broken into indecipherability.
Once, a long time ago he had been whole, he had been happy, but then she had stepped into his life and from that day on, everything went downhill.
He missed the days when he would look in the mirror and see nothing but a good person. Yes, he used to be good. He was friendly and loved to help people. Of course he had known that he did not fit into the society and the lifestyle, people around him had built up, but he was content with living the way he did. But when he looked at himself nowadays, all he saw was the brokenness that shimmered in his eyes.
Katherine had shattered his whole being, she had torn him apart slowly, piece by piece with the games she played with him and Stefan. She had ruined everything in him, had left nothing for him to believe into and nothing for him to hold onto.
He had always been good at hiding his thoughts and feelings, even as a human, and after his transformation it had been easy for him to hide his broken self from the persons around him. He was seen as the bad boy and he was happy nobody noticed the truth behind his façade.
"Hey." She whispered as she appeared behind him. She carefully placed her hand on his shoulder as she graced his cheek softly with her lips. "Hey." He answered quietly. "You are thinking about it again." She did not ask, she knew him, better than anyone else, probably better than he himself and she could read him like an open book. No matter how he tried to hide it from her, she always saw it, probably because she was good in reading emotions or probably because she was as broken as him.
"I'm here for you." She whispered and he turned to look at her, taking in the petite girl in front of him. "Thanks." He muttered before tenderly kissing her.
He knew she would be there, she was the one that made him feel whole again and she was the one that had seen through the act he put up. She was the one that had started assembling the broken soul inside him, placing it together one by one. He knew that it would take some time to heal the shattered soul inside him, but they had all of the time in this world. She was the one that would heal him.
She was the one that was collecting the broken pieces.
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