My life has taught me to adopt 4 simple rules; rules that I lived by.
Rule number 1: Show no love. Love will get you killed. Rule number 2: Trust no one. Everyone will let you down. Rule number 3: NEVER, overestimate your importance in someone’s life. However much you think you matter to them, you don’t. And finally, rule number 4: Never allow yourself to believe someone cares about you and that they’ll be there when you need them. They don’t. They’re not. And they will never be.
I lived by these rules for almost half my life. But then you came along and I fell for you. I fell for your games and I broke all my rules. I convinced myself that you were different; that you genuinely loved me and cared. Yet, here I am, alone again, trying to pick myself back up after being reminded that I’d be an idiot to break those rules.