Dexter POV

A heart can hold so many things, love, happiness, pain, sadness, and heartbreak. Once a heart is broken it takes that one special person to pick up the pieces and fix it. People say love can be painful, they say once a person breaks your heart you feel like nothing could fix it and you become numb to the pain that takes over you.

As I gazed at her from afar, my heart constricted painfully in my chest, I felt like hugging her and protecting her from her rest of the world. Her smile was contagious to everyone around her and I felt myself slightly smiling at her...