That Guy

Today's post is my entry into this week's 100 Word Challenge, hosted by Velvet Verbosity. The 100 Word Challenge is an exercise in which we write exactly 100 words in response to the weekly prompt word. Click the link to read the other entries–good stuff over there! 

This week's prompt was "gratuitous". 

What he doesn't know is that he no longer means anything to me. His syrupy, sticky-sweet charm, full of gratuitous compliments, no longer pulls me into his orbit. Now, I see it for what it is. Simply a drama, a one-act play, a one-note song which only grows more tedious once you've heard it over and over.

Now I see him for what he is. The man walks away, leaves his children, and never looks back. He spends his life in pursuit of a grandiose dream that will never come to fruition. A sad, pitiful man.