Chapter Eight

Kionno was my first love, my first everything. I experienced almost every single thing I wanted to experience with him. At some point, he was my world. I saw myself spending the rest of my life with him. But life isn’t a fairytale. It is not automatically a happy ending when the princess meets her prince because maybe…he isn’t really her prince to begin with.

When we broke up, and my life started going downhill, I became so fixated with survival that I swore to myself never to let my guards down again. I swore never to date anyone or even be friends with anyone of the opposite sex.

Of course there have been a lot of men who tried climbing up my walls, but I knew better. I knew that they only like what they see from the outside. I knew they would dump me once they got whatever they wanted from me.

So I’m not really certain why I agreed to grab some snacks with Isaac in the first place. Maybe I loosened up a bit when he didn’t judge me because of my work, especially when the majority of