You tried to do everything right— to make this relationship work —but it was so hard when your attempts fell on deaf ears. You had dressed up, didn’t wear your usual lipstick, and thought maybe you and Bruce could kiss tonight, and you were promptly brushed aside.

All you wanted was for him to kiss you already, to love you, but you knew better.

You knew when you closed your eyes, he was pretending you were someone else; Selina Kyle. You didn’t look like her, you didn’t feel like her, you didn’t taste like her, you didn’t speak like her— and he would continue pretending until…

You didn’t know how long he would keep pretending, or why he kept pretending, but you were steadily reaching the end of the line. Along with the fact that he disappeared every night, going somewhere unknown and returning with bruises, you didn’t know what to do anymore.

And you were tired of trying.