When I Breathe In My Heart Hurts Novels & Stories

All that was there were his serious eyes and perfect face. He leaned in closer and | could smell his breath. It smelled like rain and mint gum. | was breathing heavily now, my heart pounding harder and harder. His eyes were trained solely on my lips, then wandered back to my eyes. His lips brushed lightly against mine and | sucked in a breath, my lips tingling. | suddenly tilted my head sideways and looked away from him. Pushing his body away, | got up hurriedly and stepped out of the ring. "Where are you going?" he asked, climbing down after me.

My eyes become teary not because of the pain but because of what just happened. This is not the first time I would have such a feeling, I had just been shot and that too in the area that my heart is. My breath came in short, sharp gasps, and my heart pounded in my chest like a jackhammer.

There I sat down and once again let the stream of tears flow endlessly. My heart kept squeezing in at every second threatening to fall apart in shreds and in a few minutes I find myself struggling to breathe. Did I forget how to breathe or did my lungs give up on me too. I struggle to control my own body to breathe to no avail, I held tight on the bathtub for support as the other flew to clutch my chest. Oh dear moon goddess what’s going on with me, I’m I finally gonna die? Suddenly, I felt my bones hurt more that usual and almost screamed at the pain.

Why do I keep letting her hurt me like this? The walls of the hallway felt like they were closing in. I couldn’t see straight. I had to get away. I stumbled blindly, heading for the stairs, but my vision blurred, my body shaking uncontrollably. My breaths were coming fast, shallow, uneven. I can't breathe… I can't make it down the stairs, so I turned, trying to locate the elevator, hoping I'd get to it on time. To get help. I can't breathe. I pressed the elevator button, hands shaking, heart racing so fast it hurt in my chest.

She feigned concern. Everything felt loud. My thoughts, my heartbeat, the music. My chest hurt before I realized I couldn’t breathe. I started walking away then I was running. Someone called my name somewhere behind me, I couldn’t stop running long enough to answer. Breathing shouldn’t have required this much effort. I kept telling myself I was fine but my body didn’t believe me. I collapsed by a tree, feeling all the air leaving my lungs. I pressed trembling fingers against my chest like that would force my lungs to cooperate.

My chest hurt so badly I could barely breathe. I was miserable. I was pathetic. I had everything I was supposed to want, and the one thing I truly wanted was the one thing I couldn’t have. Thank God no one was around. I cried until my eyes burned, until my head hurt, until there was nothing left inside me but emptiness. ___ She walks down to another corner of the hall and hides herself. My back presses against the cold wall as I try to breathe like a normal human being. My chest feels tight, my throat burns, and my eyes sting like I have been crying for hours, even though everything just happened so fast.

"Are you hurt anywhere? Are you in pain?" "Ace, why are you still in bed?" I whispered. I would very much like to be alone to tend to the void in my heart, but I couldn't just kick him out of bed. "You don't have to work?" "No, baby, not yet. It's still three in the morning. Tell me, what's wrong?" "I can't breathe." I tried to explain. "Not like my lungs are closing. More like it's not enough. There's this ache in my chest that's not going away. I don't know what's wrong with me."

“Because someone else occupies my heart. I cannot love another,” In that moment, I wished I could escape the anguish that consumed me. The searing pain in my chest was unbearable, as if an invisible hand had reached in and was squeezing my heart. A thousand tiny needles seemed to pierce my heart, making every breath a struggle. I felt myself hyperventilating, my breathing rapid and shallow. I felt like dropping to the ground and screaming.

CHAPTER 4.1 My tears have no plans to stop from falling. An overflowing liquid from my eyes through my cheeks down to my chin is full of pain. I felt numb inside my upper right chest, every time I cry like my heart is being squeezed, I can never explain the extreme pain it has. Every time I draw strength to breathe properly, at the same time, my heart aches as if scratching when I breathe and press my hand to my heart. At a young age, this was probably the most painful thing I ever felt.

Elena POV Everything hurts. That’s the first thing that comes back. Not slowly. Not gently. It crashes into me all at once, sharp and overwhelming, like my body remembers everything before my mind does. My chest tightens. My ribs, God, my ribs… Each breath drags through me like glass, shallow and wrong. I try to inhale deeper, and pain spikes so violently I choke on it, a broken sound catching in my throat. Air. I need air. I try again. Slower. In… It burns. Out… It shakes.