A Piece of Your Heart

wallet, deleted all of our photos together, unfollowed and blocked him fr

a notorious charmer, a player who liked to secretly date several women a

es, he found me boring and started cheating on me with ot

diot, never

le insecurity in my heart that I would carry with me for a long time.

ong time to re

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llege and started working several

was Ben

ere dating and looking as happy as they could be. Even though I had become so insecur

e was 24. I was still too young to continue working as hard a

ver named Lily. I had been entranced by Lily at first sight and asked to pet her, which he allowed.

hile he would strike up a conversation with me. We quickly became friends after sharing

quite honest and never held anything back, even though it might seem crass of him to do so. In my heart,

because he checked in on me so often and always texted me every morning a

lso so, so o

hs into our relationship, he started to become

Ben, a commitment was

relationship, but I had mentioned to him a few times before that I wasn't looking fo

then in a confident tone of voice. "I

words, I

my trust in

lls and texts increased, his demands grew, and h

worked night shifts on some days, and he also told m

r whatever bullshit excuse that was. He started referring to me as

prisoner in the relationship rather than a bird being allowed to fly free. It w

-time jobs to make ends meet. Meanwhile, he had a steady job and often bought me food and many other things. He

him. He helped me financially and was so good to my parents. Who on earth was I to let him go like that? What Ben wanted from me was my de

ed around like th

end, my younger siblings, Ken and Louisa, had to finally co

happy, I needed

I d

him a few days later afte

started hitting me, which shocked me because he had always been so gentle.

rtment so that they could be there for me after I broke

ever seen him before. Louisa was horrified an

ent. To make a long story short, Ben went to jail, and that was when I found out about his past history of as

him again

, I stopped be

could be the sweetest and most innocent people I knew, but they would always bet

alized how pathetic a

might as well never love