"I guess what hurts so much is the knowledge is that this whole thing was built on a false existence of what could have been." . . . "She doesn't love me. At least, that's what I keep telling myself." . . . "Mistakes were made, and now I have a debt to repay. And if you die, so be it." . . . I love you, it's ruining my life. They had been friends with each other for years, but he was 20 when she was 16. He was her father's best friend and the person who protected her when they wanted to kill her. Now she's grown up and seems to purposefully want to give him a heart attack. MY ORIGINAL WORK.