“You deserve someone better.”

Were the first words he had uttered to you, gaze laced with despair. Was this what sympathy felt like? So this is what it felt like to be outright rejected by your own soulmate — the tinge of ache in your chest, breath hitching, the red string attached to your pinky tugging on you as a form of mockery.

If doctors were supposed to nurse people, how come this one wreaked heartbreak on you instead?

"I still love my ex-girlfriend. I'm sorry."