Break my Heart

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>After my life imploded last year Dad decided that a change in scenery was necessary and moved us across the country.</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> I've done the one thing I never thought I would-leave the competitive skating world behind in the rearview mirror.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It hasn't been easy.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Especially when the person buried in my past no longer wants to stay there.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ever since stepping foot on campus I've gone out of my way to avoid the hockey players that strut around like they're God's gift to the female species.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There's a reason for that.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My father is Reed Philips head coach for the Western Wildcats. The number one rule in our house has always been that I keep a healthy distance from his players.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That's never been a problem.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And it's not necessarily one now.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except...</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've just had a major run in with Hayes Van Doren.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One that includes me walking in on him freshly showered in the locker room and him thinking I was there to deliver a special birthday present by dropping to my knees.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Oh trust me...he got a treat all right.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One that left him singing soprano.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I might have spent most of this year flying under the radar where Hayes is concerned but that's no longer possible.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everywhere I go there he is.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Forcing his way into my life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's a complication I don't need.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Or want.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except...</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's decided to change my mind about that.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>The question is-will I let him?</em></strong></p><p></p>