puzzle piece | prologue
⧏ 00 line x female reader ⧐
summary: after your mother passes away, you return to your hometown to live with your estranged father and his new family. things start looking up after you accidentally reunite with old friends, and it’s not long before a certain someone begins to fill the emptiness in your heart. is he really your missing puzzle piece, or will he leave just like everyone else?
trigger warnings: angst, death, funeral proceedings, bullying, swearing, mentions of sex, smoking cigarettes, broken family dynamic.
if you had known that today was going to be the worst day of your life, you wouldn’t have let yourself wake up this morning.
today gave you just a small taste of the unfair reality that is the universe. it’ll make you believe that everything is fine and that there’s nothing to worry about and then one day, it’ll rip away every single precious thing you hold close to your heart without giving you the chance to even comprehend what the hell is going on.
then you’ll find yourself spending years and years wondering what you could’ve done differently to prevent all of it from happening. you’ll spend years blaming yourself, criticizing yourself, hating yourself, wanting to make yourself disappear.
until you finally realize that you couldn’t place all of the blame onto the universe. life is full of choices. you can choose to be happy, you can choose to be miserable, you can choose to love, to hate, to stay, or to leave.
and in the end, it seemed like everyone in your life had always chosen to leave.
first, it was your dad. then, your older brother. then, your best friend.
