I'm Only Gonna Break Your Heart

[Vera Rose]

She felt so weak and pathetic for letting the tears out, but she was only human. How could she have let this happen again? She was so stupid, so hopeful, so ridiculously blind to how this would end. Because she wasn't worth loving. Teddy hadn't the courage to say that to her face, but she knew that now as she listened to Tavish's excuses. They were all so easily disproved and so pessimistic; Vera wanted to yell at him and force him to realize how stupid his reasons were for not choosing her but it was pointless. He was dead set on driving her away.

Letting out a light and undignified sob, Vera wiped at her eyes and turned bodily away from him. She didn't want to leave yet, but he obviously wanted her to. He didn't want to listen to reason, fine, but she still had some fight in her. She tried her darnedest to compose herself before turning taking a step towards him. "I never th-thought that you would be such a bloody pessimist. We never would have worked when all we wanted each other for was sex, I know, but I don't think that was how it'd been for a while now. You're just trying to take the easy way out of this because you're already set on having your happy ending with her. But I'll tell you something. Nothing about this is or will ever be easy."

There, she'd said it. And nothing about saying it was easy, either. This was worse than Teddy on so many levels. She hadn't known it was coming with him, sure, but knowing something was going to happen and having no power to stop it was so, so worse. "At least I'm honest with myself." she finished. She hoped she was finished, because she didn't know how much more of this Tavish her heart could take.