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Aussie Heartbreak Hustle
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Published 5/29/2023Struggling with unrequited love, jealously, and insecurity, Adam must survive the murky high school hallways while coming to terms with his painful past in order to find joy in a new relationship with Katie and her sexually diverse best friend, Will.

I decide that today is a good day to die.
I don’t want to die though, it’s just that I know I can’t live with Katie, it doesn’t work. We tried and it didn’t work. She deserves better than me, she deserves Will and she deserves someone who doesn’t have as much baggage as I do. She doesn’t deserve me, but then again everyone else has made mistakes too.
Still, I think it would be nice to hold her one more time, feel her warmth on my skin, smell her hair and kiss her lips.
I walk into the library. Katie is sitting at a table by herself, tears streaming down her face. Smiling I walk over to her and wrap my arms around her. She jumps in shock and looks up through teary eyes at me.
"Adam?" she asks between sobs. "What are you doing here? Why are you hugging me?"
"Well," I say still holding her close, "I thought we could talk."
"Um…" she stammers while trying to squirm out of our embrace. "I'm kind of busy right now…"
I tighten my grip on her even further "No Katie you aren't." Looking around the library I notice that it's very empty and there aren't any students inside other than me and Katie. "You see there isn't anyone here to interrupt us so we can finally have this talk we should've had months ago."
Katie starts crying harder now "Adam please let go of me!" she tries wriggling free from my grasp but that only makes me hold on tighter.
Katie screams in pain as my grip becomes even tighter cutting off the circulation in her arms. Still smiling I look down at Katie's terrified face and watch as the blood drains from it. Soon her face turns purple and she stops fighting back against my grasp as she goes limp in my arms. Her eyes roll back into their sockets and she passes out cold but still breathing shallowly in my arms.
Katie looks like such a beautiful angel when she's sleeping, a truly divine creature that not even God himself could ever create anything more beautiful than her… except maybe for Will… oh wait Will doesn't exist anymore does he? Anyways he was pretty cute too but he was also very annoying sometimes… but I miss him… what am I saying? Will isn't real! He died along with his family during the car crash! Oh god why did I have to go back to that night? My head is starting to hurt again… It never stops hurting no matter how many pills they give me… I'm so tired of being tired all the time… But its okay because soon I can join them all in peace now...
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