~Ryan's POV~
Nine years ago, a wild, idiotic little boy met a sweet, happy little girl and immediately fell head over heels for her. But at the time, he was breaking because of his home life with his alcoholic father and weak mother. The weight of the world was forced on his shoulders at a young age and he thought the only way he could cope was by hurting the people around him.
The sweet, happy little girl was his favorite target.
He wanted her to be as broken as he was so they could be together, so they could bask in each other's pain and be the same. He thought she was too good for him, so every day on the playground he'd try to break that smile, shatter the happiness the little girl radiated. Because everything he'd ever known to be his was broken and the only way to make her his was
