A bite

VANESSA SUMMERS

Zoe tried to convince me Kelvin wasn’t worth the tears and I knew she was right but her words and my knowledge did nothing to stop the tears from falling. It was like an endless steady stream that left my eyes swollen and my nose red.

She tried to make me laugh and even though it worked, a memory of the bastard would flash in my mind and the tears would return.

Kelvin had been my first and I had thought he would be the only guy I gave my body to but that was gone. All I had left was pain and hurt which I knew I deserved for being a gullible stupid cunt.

“You aren’t a gullible stupid cunt.” Zoe groaned.

She managed to look worse than I did having stayed up most of the night trying to cheer me up. There was no cheering me up. I was a lost cause.

“You aren’t a lost cause!” Zoe yelled.

It was like my world had been crushed by an extinction level meteorite that had come for once purpose and one purpose only; the total annihilation of everything.that made me happy.

I must be