The Unrequited

by Saffron A. Kent

How ironic is it that the only person who can make this go away is the very one who turned me into this shivery, anxious mess?

We shouldn’t look for love stories where there are none to be found.”

You’re suffocating yourself, hoping to breathe life into your relationship, into your love. You’re holding on too tight, and maybe you need to let go, because if you don’t, you might just…kill everything.”

She belongs in the sky. She belongs with the stars. She is bright and loud. But more than that, she is scary. Layla Robinson is fucking scary, and I don’t know what to do with that.

I clutch at him harder. He’s the only thing keeping me together and making me fall apart, and no matter what I said, I don’t want to let go. I don’t regret falling in love; I only regret how it happened.

I want to be ruined for every other man out there because no one is like him. If I can’t have him, then no one will ever have me. I’ll be alone.