The Turning Year

This one's for the records. 2009 has been a complex novel, from the prosaic Chapter One, all the way to Chapter Twelve, where I, the protagonist, is left wondering why it all went down the way it did.

In the opening pages of January, how could I have ever known that in two months' time I’d meet the girl of my dreams, and feel her, touch her in ways I never thought possible? How could I have known that this connection would happen, fulfilling my urges, yet at the same time signing the order of execution on the heart of someone who had only committed the crime of trusting me?

But soon I lost them both, left them hating me and wanting to be rid of me.