The Sixth Pause, My Mechanical Heart Shattered

When I was ten, I took a kidnapper's bullet in the heart to protect the boy next door. My parents and his family spent everything they had to give me a mechanical heart. He leaned over my hospital bed, trembling, and said, "Davi, from now on I'm your external heart. I will never let anyone hurt you, not even a little." Then, on the night before our wedding, Darrell pressed the pause button on my heart for the sixth time, just so he could go to a bachelor party with his female buddy.