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.

4. hoping

That Broken Heart She Wore
4: hoping

Little love hearts next to names at the train station didn't always irk her, but now it did. Maybe because she's one of those people who've had to learn the hard way that romance isn't that sappy junk in romance flicks. It's not eternal, and anyone who draws a little love heart next to their name and someone else's is just kidding themselves.

And it's just easier to do that: start with the broken heart so it can't break again, so you don't have to break when your love life falls apart because it was non-existent in the first place.