That Broken Heart She Wore

by reminiscent-afterthought

[pre-season] When Ruki got a shirt with a heart, she took a marker and drew a jagged line right through. It disgusted her, and now that it was maimed it disgusted her mother too.

3. because

That Broken Heart She Wore
3: because

Ruki didn't grow up like a typical girl. Maybe it was because she was daddy's little girl at heart, and her mother couldn't change that. Her father couldn't change that either, even if he'd left her, left them, for whatever new life he lived now.

But her father had decided she wasn't the poster girl her mother wanted, and she lived like that. It was part anger and hurt. Why hadn't his father stayed? Why hadn't he taken her with him? Part of it was just the rebellion of growing up.

The rest of her knew she wasn't like that.