What's left of me

Prologue

Have you ever had your heart broken? I don't mean puppy love kind of stuff. I mean when it breaks you feel like you're dying. It feels like your no longer complete. Like life will never be the same again. Like a piece of you is missing.

That's how Adriana felt after losing Josiah. He was her everything. She built her entire world around him. Now that he was gone, she felt like an empty shell. She was sure she wouldn't be able to go on.

That was until Luciano stepped into her life. It was like he showed up when she needed him the most. Will she open her heart, and let him in? Can Luciano prove to her that not all men are the same.

Can Adriana give Luciano what's left of her heart? They say love can conquer all. So, with patience and demanding work even the most impossible things can become possible.

Or will Josiah come back, and ruin Adriana's chance at love and happiness? Men always want what someone else has. Love, Pain, heartache, and that's just in the first chapter. Love can be beautiful and passionate, but it can also be painful and soul wrenching. You just have to decide if it's worth it.

Chapter 1

Josiah's pov

I hated what I did to Adriana, but we were both heading in different directions. I've gotten a scholarship to Yale, and she was going to be stuck in this Podunk town chasing a dream that will never happen.

She had dreams of being an actress but is too afraid of leaving home. I on the other hand was following in my dad's footsteps. He owned his own firm, and once I finished law school, I was going to become partner in it.

See I knew how my life was going to turn out. I loved Adriana, but I couldn't have her bringing me down. She'll get over it eventually. I mean we started dating when we were freshman's it wasn't going to last forever.

It was just a puppy love kind of thing. We needed to be free to grow up and see the world. Date whoever we wanted to date. Hell, I was going to go up and check out the dorms and see what all Yale had to offer in the babe department.

That way it won't be so weird running into Adriana so soon. She's a great person, and maybe one day when she gets her stuff together, we can get back together. It's just my family is optimistic for me, and they thought a girl like her would bring me down.

I don't even think she plans to go to college. She doesn't think about the future. I know that attracted me to her at first. The way she was a free spirit. I wanted to be more like that, but I can't be. I had too much ridding on me. I had to be serious. I wish things could have been different, but this is how it has to be.

Chapter 2

Adriana's pov

I can't eat, or sleep. All I do is cry. My parents don't even know how to deal with me. Since graduation was coming up, they were forcing me to go back to school. I wouldn't run into Josiah because I was told he already left for college.

He decided to graduate early. He had his whole life planned out. Guess I never truly was a part of it. He said I was going nowhere. All because I was going to a community college.

I was staying here because my mom's sick. But to him I was never going to be good enough to impress his parents. With them social status was all that mattered. I never thought Josiah would be like that. Guess I was wrong.

Now I had to face all our friends alone. I didn't know if I was strong enough to handle this. I pulled my hair up and thew on jeans and a hoodie. I didn't care how I looked. I didn't have anyone to impress anymore.

I walked into the school, and all eyes were on me. I could hear them whisper and laugh. Poor me couldn't even keep a guy like Josiah. They all said it wouldn't last. They were right.

I wanted to cry, but I wasn't going to give them that satisfaction. I felt as if I was barely breathing. Little by little I was dying inside. I would never be whole again. He took the best of me with him when he left.

I felt like I was going out of my mind. I was a robot just going through the motions. I went to class after class. All my so-called friends avoided me. It was as if I had the plague. I felt so alone.

everywhere I looked reminded me of him. I felt like I was being swallowed up. I had to get out of here. I couldn't do this. I was going to totally loose it. I made him my everything, and now I was left with this emptiness.

I felt hot tears burning my eyes. I ran for the doors. No one is ever going to want what's left of me. I wasn't good enough for anyone everyone left me because I was nothing. I wasn't special and I guess everyone finally saw it.