"I love you baby." The young brunette guy reached behind his back pulling out a long black velvet box and sank to one knee. "And I couldn't think of a better way to let you know just how much I think of you than this."
The dark haired brown skinned girl brought her hands up to her face trying to stop the tears before they escaped. "You shouldn't have." She gasped.
She meant it.
"I'm so sorry." She sobbed looking down at him. It was the first time she'd ever broken a heart before, she didn't think that she'd actually be able to see the exact moment that it shattered but she could. If the eyes were the windows to the soul she'd just hurled a brick through them. "I'm so so sorry."
She meant that to. She meant it more than she could remember meaning anything ever in her life.
"Why shouldn't I have, why are you sorry?" The boy was far from stupid, he'd figured it what she was about to say immediately but he was stalling. Hoping he'd misunderstood, praying he could find the right combination of words to change her mind. Begging the universe for a favor. He'd give anything for just one more night with his love.
Do you think that qualifies as a wish?
Don't. He's already hurting bad enough.
I'm only going to give him what he wants. Well maybe a little something extra but it's something he'll like.
I'm not going to be able to talk you out of this am I?
Not a chance, not unless you're volunteering to let me out for a night on the town.
Go on then. Do what you're going to do.
"You shouldn't have because I have to break-" The woman stopped right there, she just couldn't go on and it wasn't wasted on her that breaking up with your boyfriend of three years on Valentines Day was about the worst thing any woman had ever done. "I can't be with you anymore."
"Why?" He was still holding the box toward her like some kind of bribe. Without thinking he opened the box revealing the gold necklace with the diamond encrusted heart pendant. The pendant was open and a picture of the two of them at their senior prom was in the display. "Was it something I did? I can change."
"It's nothing you did." She forced a smile. She wasn't lying. It wasn't anything that he'd done, it was something he hadn't done. He just didn't make her feel alive, not the way Sean did.
"Then what?" He asked. "Tell me, I can change. I can be the man you want me to be."
She had to close her eyes. She wouldn't be able to finish this if she had to look him in the eye and it had to be done.
What are you waiting for?
Oh, me? Just basking. Can't you feel all that delicious agony wafting off the two of them? Hell maybe I won't do anything. I could just let them suff- hey!