[ WP ] Make me love a character , then in the final sentence make me hate him .

Casey had his heart first broken at the age of five, when his horseshoe-haired father came home from Friday happy hour stinking of rye whiskey and lashed a belt around his wrist. He let the buckle free, though, and cracked it over Casey's back like a whip. That was Casey's first memory of speaking, when he screamed `` no, no, no,'' and his father ignored that. 
 
 And yet it was his father who broke his heart again, when Casey was eleven, moving out of the house finally and turning Casey's mother into a single mother. Casey never saw his father after that, but when Casey heard his mother crying Christmas morning because she could n't afford presents for the kids, his heart broke, and he blamed his father. He hugged his mom and told her not to cry, that he did n't need any presents, but in his right hand he made a fist and thought of finding and beating his dad, of making him say `` no, no, no,'' and ignoring that. 
 
 Casey's mother was a willowy woman prone to wearing nightgowns all day and putting out cigarettes in the wetness of dirty plates in the kitchen sink. She smoked other things, too, Casey knew, but he never asked about the strange smells coming from the basement when her boyfriends would come over, sometimes all at once. One of them beat her once, or at least grabbed her, Casey never knew what the man's intentions were, because Casey struck the man in the face so hard he shouted `` no, no, no,'' but Casey ignored that. His mother screamed at him for that, but in the morning she confessed that she was glad to be rid of another abusive male figure in his life. 
 
 His heart was broken before prom thrice. Layla with her brunette-auburn hair that glistened in the sun like copper told him `` no,'' and he did n't ignore that. Brooklyn with her bright blue eyes told him `` no,'' and added in a few choice words for him, that he was the son of a deadbeat from the wrong part of town, and he could n't ignore that, but he pretended to. Then when Lisa told him `` no,'' something in Casey snapped and later when he was alone he punched a locker, and then cried because he hated making fists. Fists reminded him of his dad, and he would never be like his dad. But then he punched the locker again, and his mind said `` no, no, no,'' but he ignored that. 
 
 He did n't make it into college, but that did n't break his heart. By then he was used to rejection and being told that he did n't matter. He stayed at home and went to community college instead, and his mother told him to move out, but he told her no, no, no, and she ignored that. He wanted to be a plumber. He'd heard that plumbers make good money and he would never be a deadbeat like his dad was, even if he could n't make it in a fancy four-year school, he would be a plumber and never make a fist again. Except one night when his mother went to hit him in one of her own drunken stupors, he made a fist and thought about it, but he said no, no, no, and he woke up glad he did n't ignore that. 
 
 The last time Casey had his heart broken was Sue, a girl he'd met at a bar just outside of town. She made him feel good. She liked his callused hands, and when she held them open Casey knew he could never make a fist to this girl. They saw a movie and laughed by making fun of the overracting of the villain, with Sue doing his high-pitched voice in an uncanny whine. She cracked him up, and he thought it was going somewhere, but when he found out she had a boyfriend and that he had been paying for all their dates for nothing, he felt his heart break again, but again he told himself no, no, no, he would not be the man his father was. His life sucked, but that did n't mean *he* had to suck. *The cycle breaks with me. * 
 
 Then one day he got drunk on rye whiskey at McKakesie's downtown and he saw Sue with her boyfriend across the way, and he sat there stewing. It felt good to be drunk, because remembering his father with numbness was not so bad. Remembering his mother with numbness was not so bad either. The bartender said something about being cut off, and Casey walked outside, and kept walking under the streetlamps until he could n't count them anymore, and then he arrived at Sue's house, he knew what he was going to do. He was going to be the opposite of his father. He was going to be nice to Sue. So nice. *Forgive her*. *In person. * He was going to be nice to her, he resolved, and he was going to treat her right and she would understand that they were meant to be together. She gasped when she saw him at the front door, but she let him in, and she tried to sober him up with water and gatorade and it felt good to be taken care of, like a warm hearth in the middle of a world of frost. 
 
 But then she broke his heart with one word. `` No,'' she said when he put his hand down her dress, `` no,'' she said ten minutes later when he tried to put it between her thighs, `` no,'' she screamed, and she screamed, and she screamed, but Casey ignored that.
