Shattered - |d.s|

T h i r t y - t h r e e

POV Ellie

Life is never only uphill it has it's downfalls. I've learnt that as a child. Life will continue to surprise you I guess that's the beauty of life. The unpredictably. The challenges.

Everyone's stories different. Everyone has their own paths they are tracing. Sometimes two paths intertwine, they continue to explore what is called life together. No matter how many hurdles they encounter, they know they are in this together. Because their paths are the same; connected.

However, some paths disconnect. The hurdles destruct life. They venture alone again, two joined paths becoming two separate ones. To the unknown.

He cheated on me. He did the one thing I never imagined him to do. That's when our worlds drifted apart. The images of him kissing another girl while on tour spread like wildfire. Even worse, it was a fan. Countless dms and messages bombarded my phone, of the same picture. The picture that destroyed me.

The crying, the pain, the heartbreak made me stronger. It made me grow as a person, learnt lessons I never would have learnt. And this is what I learnt.

Heartbreak is temporary. Yeah it feels like a bitch when experiencing it, yes the memories fail to fade away however, if you allow yourself, you can come back stronger on the other side. No one said life is easy. But no one ever said life is hard. It's what you choose to do. How you react, think. That shapes how your life is and if the life you are living is what you want it to be.

Bastille as a group are taken time apart. Well, that's what the world thinks. However, Kyle refuses to even play in the band, he refuses to even be associated with them. He hates Dan now. Loathes him.

Dan. My Dan. The one who I thought was the one. The one who I was so madly in love with and now nothing remains.

He broke my heart and now I'm shattered again.

I never spoke to him. He left voicemails and messages pleading he would explain and that it's false. But I never replied. Hell I even had to get a new sim card just so he would stop. Stop reminding me of the thing that killed me.

Shortly after, I moved away from London. I contemplated going back to America but I didn't want to move away from Kyle. Him and Katie are the only family I have left now.

It was time to rebuild my life.

A life without Dan.

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"Kyle you idiot, Katie worked so hard to make that. Watch she's going to murder you." I screech in disbelief. Kyle thought it was hilarious to get on the countertop and dance but he moved too far to the left and stuck his foot on Katie's cake.

"I'm sure I can quickly make a new one." Kyle mutters rushing around to get the flour.

"What you making babe?" Katie calls out from the front door, the door closing loudly behind her.

"Good luck ky ky." I smug, fetching a glass of water and sitting on the chair, waiting for the drama to unfold.

"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED HERE." Katie roars, as I burst out laughing. Her pale skin quickly fills with red as she glares at Kyle who's trying to literally camouflage into the wall.