She ignored the reason for his breakup and only wished deep down this time was for good. "Did she break your troubled little heart again" she teased. It was a disguise to the actual concern she had for him. For years they’d known each other, and to see him put up with something so toxic was painful to watch. She gazed at him, gulping down the beers without hesitation. The sorrow in his eyes said it all. An on and off relationship that was all too overwhelming from the start.

The urge to badmouth his ex was for sure something easy to...