Everybody was talking about the heart thief. They were saying that after he steels a womens’ heart, she wanders the streets, no purpose, no destination, like a zombie, with a big black hole in her chest where the heart used to be.
I was scared, but I told myself that if I see him, I won’t look into his eyes, won’t talk to him, will just walk away…And I won’t go down without a fight. I have had my heart in it’s place for more than 20 years, I wasn’t going to let it go that easily. I was too used to it there, ticking in my chest…

One night I was in the bus stop. A warm, pleasant, usual night like all the other thousands of nights before that…When he came and said “Hi” to me. I looked up straight into his eyes.  He took my hand and said “Walk with me”. He put a spell on me right there, as he was controling all my body. I stood up and my feet started to move. My lips started to kiss his when he took me in his arms.
I started to fully appreciate his powers. He was unbeatable. Far too strong for me to fight. I could see now why all those women fell victims to him.
He was everything and more…

The next day I woke up in his apartment. He was still dreaming. The early morning light was hitting something in the corner of the dark room. It was too bright for me to make out what it was, so I went over there. I couldn’t believe it. In the corner of the room there was an empty space with my name on it.
He was expecting me. I put my hand against my chest and felt my heart pounding. My heart was going to fill that empty space, like a trophy, and a black hole was going to be left where my pour heart was beating…

But there was nothing I could do about it. I tried fighting in the beggining, but I grew weaker and weaker…I gave up a long time ago. Now we’ve been  together for more than a year.
One day one of my friends came to visit me. She is one of his victims. She took her coat out for me and showed me the black hole. She said “look closely”. I could see a tiny light shimmering in the dark of her whole. “I’m growing a new one. That’s the seed.” She said with a smile on her face.
Then I told her the truth. I am living with the heart thief. I tried fighting him, but he was too strong and I gave up. He still let me keep my heart for some reason…But any day now I’m going to have a big hole just like yours and I don’t know if anything is going to grow back in mine…
She was surprised to hear all that at first, and than requested to see him. I showed her a picture of us and she start laughing: “That’s not the heart thief, stupid! Don’t you watch the news? He looks nothing like that!”

It’s not him…Not him…Than who is he? All this time…Why did he have an empty space with my name on it? Why?
When he came home that day I told him I have a surprise for him.
I took my heart out and put it in the empty space with my name on it. “There. I don’t care to hold on to it anymore. It’s yours, you can do whatever you
want with it now. I’m not scared anymore”
“I was waiting for you to do that” he said, as he was opening his chest to put my heart inside.