Start a Fire in Our Hearts.

For this contest.

My word was ‘fire’.
My word count is 1,084.
The words I couldn’t use were: flame, burn, cracker, hydrant, and smoke.

He’s a professional heart breaker________

“Well, then, I’m very sorry,” he frowned, confused yet. “I must have been late. How about we start over?”

I was going to shake my head and say, ‘fuck off’. I was going to walk away. But I had the guts of a guppy back then. “Sure.”