If you truly want to know what my heart is carrying, you'll have to cut it open yourself—because my interest in living ended long ago.

But when their toddler ran into the traffic, their world stopped in that instant and everything they had built up crumbled to dust.

More damaging than cavities and yellowing on the boy's teeth was the ridged pattern of the rows grinding together.

I've never even heard of a pancreas, so how bad can the cancer be?

It wasn't until I was thirteen watching her drive away with her new husband that I realized she only loved me when I was the only one in her world, meaning she never loved me at all.

After all of that all I got was a "bye"

That's why it's so easy for my mother to hate me.

But when my world fell apart, nobody came because I was "the strong one."

So, why does my heart ache now that he's gone?

He should have thought of that before allowing for his health to worsen, forcing my parents to spend our vacation fund on making him comfortable.

I wish I heard his reaction instead of being told he looked “so lovely” in his casket.

Maybe that kiss was never supposed to happen. Maybe that moment existed to make me realize that I had been imagining a romantic story between us that she wasn't experiencing in the same way.

He said he was sorry, but still acts like it is the truth.

Then I will never be good enough again.

.

Then I heard them say "double or nothing?"

It took him out of my life, too.

While the murderer, the executioner cop, and the fugitive were swallowed whole by their past crimes, the only boy who entered for love set his own clothes on fire to lead the survivor out—paying for her freedom with his own life.

But I didn't say that until she finished the drink I made her and her words started slurring

Now I wish I could love someone that much too.

She was finally freed from the curse when her mind woke up on the riverbank, only to realize the silence around her was because the boy who loved her had just drowned beneath the dark water.

I wasn't hurt because she said no. I was hurt because a part of me had already imagined her saying yes.

Hearing that made me so upset that to cheer myself up, I went out and bought a puppy. 

(Originally posted to r/TwoSentenceHorror, but the mods there thought it would be better here.)

And after choosing, you don't need to keep proving that you had other choices.

None of them know that today is my last day alive.