The Heartbroken - S01 E01

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The Heartbroken - S01 E01

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I hated Cedric.

Every little piece of him

—from his gorgeous

brown eyes, his

adorable geeky smile,

and the way he would

look when he was

solving a difficult

Calculus problems,

eyebrows slightly

furrowed in

concentration.

Of course, I hadn’t

always hated pieces of

him. In fact, they used

to be the things that

kept me on my toes,

the things that never

failed to make my

heart

thump, sending

butterflies to my

stomach.

But then he broke my

heart.

And the worst part?

There was no way I

could’ve seen it coming.

It was his birthday.

Seventeenth of June, in

the middle of summer.

We’ve been spending

more and more time

together. Sometimes

we’d read in his room,

listening to some

music,

occasionally taking a

break and making out.

We started going out

two years ago. He was

my first boyfriend,

first

kiss, first date—and I

really believed that he’d

be my last. At that

point, it didn’t seem

possible that we would

ever end up the way

we did.

The funny thing was

that everything was

sailing smoothly. I was

in love with him, and I

was falling deeper

everyday. I would

wake

up to thoughts of him

and fall asleep with the

memory of his voice in

my head. I thought it

was the same for him.

Apparently not.

“Wow. You really

overdid yourself,” Hail

said as she gazed at

my birthday present

for

Cedric.

We were in my room,

both of us seated on

my bed as we tried to

decide what I should

wear for my date with

Cedric later. We agreed

to meet on the beach a

few towns over later

at six in the evening. I

couldn’t decide which

dress to wear. I’d gone

shopping, something I

didn’t normally do, but

ended up buying three

dresses. I called Hail to

help me choose. The

moment she walked

into my room, she saw

the guitar and her face

lit up.

“You think he’d like it?”

I

asked her, looking at

the corner of my room,

where I had placed the

guitar case, propped

against the wall.