THECOFFEESHOPMUSE: I had fun writing this one. I love this song, and when you challenged me with it, I had to go back in time. I hope you enjoy!

Break Up In A Small Town

It was only a matter of time.

I knew this day would come.

But I never expected it to hurt this much.

For the last three months, I have ducked and dodged seeing her around town- not that it has been easy. Baia is a pin-drop on the map, only a thousand people, and everyone knows everyone. We have the same friends, go to the same school, and live seven minutes apart. Small is not an in-depth enough word to describe our measly town.

I avoided parties that I think she will be at or leave the moment she walks through the door. Turn around in the grocery store, just so I don't have to walk past her. Hell, I even refuse to turn my head at the stop light when the all too familiar Nissan pulls up beside me.

At first, it was if she was everywhere I was, until one day I realized I hadn't seen her in a while. Which is odd. As I said, Baia is small, you can't really hide here unseen. So I did the only thing I could, I asked around about her. Ivan assured me she was still here, making it through each day- his sister is her best friend, so he would know better than anyone if something was wrong.

Inwardly, I prayed she was still pining over me, hoping I would take her back because fuck I wanted too. Alexandria Morozov is one hell of a woman, but I got scared. Dhampirs aren't supposed to have relationships, let alone together. We are meant to serve and protect the Moroi, not embellish our own hearts desires. So, being the idiot I am, I told her I didn't love her. Well, more or less, I told her my love had faded, it just wasn't there anymore. And at first, I thought it was the right thing to do, that I would be fine, so would she, after a little while. She would find a way to get over me. But I didn't think it would be by getting under someone else.

No. Nothing in this world could have prepared me for the day I saw her with my cousin Igor, hand in hand walking around the town festival looking perfectly in love with each other. I knew she would move on eventually, but how could she be with someone I know, someone in my family no less.

Anger flourished in my heart. Pure utter hatred for a man who is supposed to be me. I wanted to walk right over to him, lay his ass out on the dirt street. But I can't. It's my fault. I let her go, thinking it was better for both of us in the long run.

Why didn't Ivan tell me? Why didn't anyone tell me? What are they protecting me from? Or are they protecting her, and him, from me?

My anger turned to pain knowing she was with him. Leaving tire tracks in his yard instead of mine. Laying in his embrace after a night of passion instead of wrapped around my body. He gets to run his fingers through her silk dirty blonde hair, stare into her crystalline blue eyes, declaring his love for her. He gets to feel her flesh wrapped around him as she cries out in pleasure.

That used to be me. I was the name on her lips in the dark of night, bringing her to new heights. I was the one lost in the depths of her eyes, the sound of her velvet voice.

Not anymore. Fuck. I drug my hand through my hair, pulling on the short strands. I guess this is just how it goes, right? There are only so many people in this town, it was bound to happen I guess. You have to move and move on, a small voice sounded in the back of my mind.

Yes. Move and Move on. I needed out of the confines of Baia. There are only so many streets, so many lights, around here I am bound to keep running into them. With only a few months to graduation, I could hold out, hide in the house or my dorm, and if everything goes according to plan, leave with Ivan when we graduate. I just have to get through the next few months with seeing them, and then my life will change for the better.

Laying back in bed, I resolved with myself, Positive thinking, Dimitri, things happen for a reason, and I drifted off to sleep, dreaming of a beautiful young woman with dark hair and eyes. Who she is, I don't know, but I have a feeling I will someday. Someday down the road when I am ready to move and move on.

Break Up In A Small Town- Sam Hunt