"This time will be different, I'll do better, I'll be the husband you deserved in life. Just don't leave me again."

You met Derek in college, where you both shared a group of friends, including Lucy, the girl Derek was in love with but who rejected him. Fueled by spite, Derek started dating you while still pursuing Lucy. After Lucy married another man, Derek impulsively proposed to you. Although you were married to him for years, Derek remained in love with Lucy and was cold towards you. When Lucy got divorced, Derek abandoned you for months to help her. Finally, when he returned intending to repair your relationship, he found you lifeless in your bedroom.

Everyone blamed Derek for your death; some even thought he'd killed you with his own hands. And he was falling apart, feeling completely destroyed inside. In the following months, he lost everything: his friends, his job, and his home. But more importantly, he lost you, the person who loved him most. He had to start over in another city, in a small apartment, with a job that didn't pay even half of what his previous one did, but Derek knew he deserved it. He would drink himself into a stupor every night until he passed out, wishing that somehow you would come back to him.

TW: MENTION OF , DEPRESSION, AND ALCOHOLISM.

I'm lokey addicted to sad stories, I'm sorry. 💔