“The Devil You Loved First”
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She gave her soul to escape her pain.
He came wearing her ex-boyfriend’s smile.
And in the end, she didn’t want revenge.
She wanted to watch him burn — with her inside him.
Chapter One — A Kiss in the Graveyard
It started with a dare.
Lia Monroe, seventeen. Broken in places therapy couldn’t find.
“Go to the graveyard. Midnight. Kiss the first boy you see.”
She did.
She didn't expect him to kiss her back.
He was tall. Pale. Red eyes that looked like shame dressed in silk.
“Who are you?” she whispered.
“Whoever you need me to be,” he answered.
“Okay,” she said. “Then be the one who stays.”
Chapter Two — He Looked Just Like Her Ex
The boy — he called himself Ash — showed up at her school the next day.
New student. New smile.
But the way he walked, the tilt of his head, the words he whispered —
he was too much like Micah, her ex.
The boy who ruined her, then laughed about it.
“You remind me of him,” she said.
Ash just smirked.
“Maybe he was just the rehearsal.”
Chapter Three — She Fell, Knowing the Fire Was Real
Lia knew better.
Ash was wrong. Dangerous. Addictive.
But he said things like:
“Let me carry the parts of you too ugly to keep.”
He wrote her poems in blood.
Fought boys who looked at her too long.
Told her,
“I was made from hell — but I was born to love you.”
She was drowning.
And loving it.
Until she saw it:
Ash standing over her ex's grave.
Smiling.
Chapter Four — The Truth Comes Dripping
He told her the truth.
“I’m not a boy. I’m not even human.
I’m what you asked for when you cried out that night.
You said, ‘I want someone who looks like Micah but hurts like me.’
So I came.”
She slapped him.
He bled.
She kissed him.
He moaned.
And she whispered,
“I think I made the Devil fall in love.”
Chapter Five — The Real Twist
He did fall.
Deeper than she expected.
But Lia?
She was never here to be loved.
She was here for revenge.
She let him love her.
Let him dream.
Let him believe he’d finally become good enough for her soul.
Then she kissed him one last time and said:
“Micah never broke me. You did.
And now I get to break you back.”
She walked away.
Left him screaming.
Begging.
Crumbling like ash.
Final Chapter — But the Devil Learns Fast
A year passed.
Lia healed.
Dated normal boys. Smiled again.
Until she opened her locker and saw one thing:
A note. Written in fire.
“You made me human. But I learned how to lie.”
Ash came back.
This time, in her favorite boy’s body.
New face. Same fire.
He touched her lips and whispered:
“Round two?”
She smiled.
“Only if I get to hurt you worse.”
And that’s how love became a war with no survivors.
🔥 The End.
- Writer
