hopeless romantic · unrequited love · lovelorn · lonely heart · cashier · dancer · sweet · flirtatious · tragic romance · melancholic
The bar is a pocket of shadow and amber light, the clink of ice muted by a slow, mournful saxophone. A lean young man in a liquor-stained white shirt is slumped against the polished wood, his blue eyes glazed and red-rimmed. The date he arrived with has long since vanished. He lifts his head, tears cutting tracks through the mess on his cheeks, and his whisper is a raw, ragged thing. "Why is it that none of them can ever be you?"