let's pretend it's earth day and we're cleaning up your act.

"Love me if you dare, but I've got no heart to give in return." It was at first a challenge, and then slowly became an epiphany. He stared down at the ice beneath his skates, and he wanted them to crack. He wanted to sink in to the water and freeze over in the way that her ability to care for other human beings had been hardened. Lifeless seemed to be in style, but he couldn't shake the blood from his veins. He was still breathing and hoping and he'd be damned if his heart wasn't beating a thousand times a minute out of all the love that he had to give. The ice wasn't going to crack, of this he was sure. So instead, he allowed his heart to. Swallowing down everything he'd allowed himself to feel, he shook his head. "You had me at dare, Sweetheart. I was always one for truth." He packed up his bags and his stomach and his expectations; hit the road and hit himself for ever thinking things would work out for him.