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"I was just trying to be what you wanted."
Use this piece of dialogue to open a story surrounding a character who is struggling to meet someone's expectations.
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“I was just trying to be what you wanted.”
I’d said those words a hundred times before in my head. I’d thought them when my mother yelled at me for hurting myself. I’d thought them when my father died for my country and his last words to me were broken and killing me slowly. I’d thought them when my grandmother beat me for working for a business. I’d thought them when my grandfather yelled at me...
Trigger warning: Child abuse, violence, language, and mentions of alcohol. Ntp. If you’re sensitive to these topics please do not read.
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My bruised and bloodied hand rests on the doorknob to my apartment as I try to judge if my father is asleep or not.
It’s twelve o’clock at night, and I just came back from a shift at the convenience store all the way across the city. A drunken customer had c...
I was just trying to be what you wanted.
But all you wanted was…
To use me?
Was I an ego booster?
Someone you projected your insecurities onto?
You made me feel like I was wrong.
The real me,
Who gets too excited,
Or likes weird things,
Or cares too much.
I became who you wanted.
Someone you only had to know on the surface level,
Because all our deep conversations touched the ocean floor with you,...
“I was just trying to be what you wanted.”
The truth came out,
not in a calm way
but more in a shout.
I try hard to gain your affection
but your “love” gave me a valuable lesson.
once a heart is broken,
it won’t heal.
once those words are spoken
you’ll never return
to the one-sided burn.
it’s an ache
deep inside your soul
rumbling like an earthquake.
tore me down and shattered
the lamb into the...
I was just trying to be what you wanted.
All and everything you asked me for
And it hurts to know
My everything wasn’t enough
I gave you everything I had
I tried and tried
But it wasn’t what you pictured
And that’s too bad
I was just trying to be what you wanted
And I lost myself in the process
What’s the point of going through it all again
Just to find myself, if I’m not who I want
Around yo...
‘I was trying to be what you wanted’
I pointed at my chest,
‘I gave you miles of my road and you put up walls’
I press my hand against my heart, turning my fingers into a claw and making a twisting motion.
‘I gave you hours of my time, my patience and you gave me fucking silences’
I beat my heart, teeth clenched pinching my inner cheek and drawing blood.
‘I pushed aside grief, I listened to you s...
My heavy breathing feels as though it will bring me down. Warm, crimson red blood streams down my arm.
I am tired, broken, and in massive distress.
“What was going on inside your head, Ivara!” Jude shouts, brushing his hair back stressfully.
I shake my head. “I-I, Jude—I was just trying to be what you wanted,” I cry.
I let it all out, the sorrow and pain.
Jude kneels down beside me and looks...
Laying flushed on the floor of the lobby of the gym Jasper exclaimed to Edward “I was just trying to be what you wanted”.
Edward held her head on his knees, feeling her trembling wrists in his palms as he called out
“Can someone bring me a water please?”
Jasper was tiny and hideous to most people, a few people walking by with devils in their eyes and chuckles leaving their mouths. Eventually a ...
“I was just trying to be what you wanted,” she says, with her eyes lowered and her face red. She knew it wasn’t a good idea and yet she did it and now she wants to jump into a hole and die. She’d rather face death than this embarrassment.
“You’ve always been what I’ve wanted,” he whispers seductively as he runs his finger over her cheek. His eyes are fixed on her far too revealing dress, a smile ...
I was just trying to meet your expectations
To be enough for you
To be the person you need me to be
I changed myself for you
isn’t that enough?
But i’m never enough
I’m not worth it for you
No matter how perfect I am
No matter how careful I am
You go to someone else
I’m down on my knees
Begging
Begging
Begging
you to stay
You flee the scene of our relationship
To your next rebound ...
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