[Rue’s POV]
Sobs rack my body as all the painful emotions I’ve been carrying for so long come rushing out.
It hurts.
It hurts to be allowed to hope only to have that hope dashed out.
Of course, I had a feeling that this was the way it would end, but to have it confirmed like that hurt like hell.
Play with fire and you will get burned.
That was what they said and it was exactly what I just felt.
I was burned.
I was burned so deeply that my heart felt like it was being ripped from my chest.
If I knew that it would hurt this bad for things to end I wouldn’t have even tried something so selfish, but I just wanted to do it once, just once so that I could finally let go.
But was I really letting go now?
How many times had I told myself that I was going to let go only to turn around an
