41. RAE
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I thought losing my parents destroyed my heart completely. I was wrong because whatever was left of it, it just exploded in my face.
I storm through the front door and up the stairs at the same time June walks into the hallway.
She quickly notices the distress on my face. “Rae, honey, what’s wrong?”
I stop as my aunt gives me a look of pity. I know it is because it’s the same look everybody gave me when my parents died. A look I hate with every bone in my body.
I don’t want people's pity or for them to think I’m some damaged girl.
But the truth is, I am. I’ve known this from the moment I became an orphan, but in the last week something happened. Jensen gave me a feeling I could be more than that. That I could heal with the right people around me. With him around me.
I guess I was wrong. Hearts can never be glued, or mended. Once they are broken, there is no fixing them.
“He’s gone,” I answer, the words leaving my tongue with disdain. “Going back to his family.”
June shakes her head. “I don’t understand. It’s so clear he’s in love with you.”
“He clearly isn’t.” Tears prick in my eyes as a lump forms in the back of my throat.
“No, that can’t be, Rae. I’m sure. We all are,” she huffs, incredulous.
I stare at her, feeling numb.
I have nothing to say, nothing to argue. I don’t have any words left, but three.
“You are wrong,” I announce with a glare, then take the last steps to disappear into my room.