What Happens In A Small Town

Chapter One

Note: this will be starting in 2016 when the tour was first announced and working it's way up to the present day. I've also added a few people to the tour and also Amber and Brantley are not married in this and he is single that way it works with my plans for this story. And another thing Amber and Kelsey are really close friends it happened after Amber and Brantley broke up.

K E L S E Y

I just pulled up at my manager Amy's office as she called for a meeting she's supposed to be telling me who I'm touring with. 

I walk in and she smiles warmly at me "Hello Kelsey" "what have you got for me, Amy?" Her smile grows even bigger "I completely hooked you up Kels I got you a spot on what is supposed to be one of the hottest tours of the year" 

I roll my eyes "just spit it out, Amy"

She grins at me "okay, okay I got you on The Devil Don't Sleep Tour" my eyes widen when she says that "what?"

She gives me a look "You know I thought you'd be more excited" I shake my head "I can't do that Amy, you can't just throw me in like that" 

She looks confused and just like that, I remember that no knows about my past with Brantley, before I was discovered by Amy's label I was just a small-town girl from Jefferson, Georgia. 

I grew up with Brantley we were best friends until Freshman year that's when we starting dating, we were together until 2008 that's when I left him, I loved him so much he was the love of my life but I couldn't watch him destroy himself the way he was back then so I left hoping that it would make him see that he was ruining his life. 

Everyone thinks that it's Amber that all of or well at least 98% of his songs are about but it's not it's really me, and the three of us and well pretty much everyone back home are the only ones that know it. It was just easier for everyone to let them all think it's her.

I get knocked out of my thoughts "Kels! Are you even listening to me?"

I blink and shake my head to clear it "What?" 

She sighs giving me a look "I said what's your problem with him, you've never even met him, you don't even know him... so why is this such a big deal?" 

I let out a bit of a bitter laugh "yeah so it would seem, I'll do the damn tour because it's a good opportunity, but I don't have to be happy about it, so what are the arrangements?" 

"Alright so there will be four buses, one will be for your, Brantley's, and  Thomas's bands, then the second will be yours, Thomas and Brantley, the third will be the bands for Luke, Cole and Tyler and the last bus will be those three"  (Honestly don't know if that's really how it works but that's how I'm doing it)

I let out a sigh "Well this is going to be a hell of a time, I just haven't decided if it's good or bad yet though" Amy just chuckles not knowing the reasoning behind my statement. 

I walk out of the office this is going to be so awkward I haven't seen him since I walked out of his life 8 years ago. 

The first thing I do when I get into my house in Nashville where I live currently is call Amber she and I got close after she and Brantley broke up. Now she's one of my best friends, it's really odd that we even became friends because we didn't get along when we were younger. She was friends with my sister Kasey but we just never really clicked I guess it was because I was more the kick it with the guy's type and she was more the girly type my sister is the more girly one between us don't get me wrong she can still get down and dirty with the guys but she just prefers the girlier things.  

"Kels what's up?"

I let out a sigh "So I just got back from meeting with Amy she told who I'm touring with starting February 2, 2017" 

"Ohhh wait isn't that when Brantley's tour starts?" 

"Yep"

I hear the realization in her voice "Oh my god you're on his tour?"

I pinch the bridge of my nose letting out another sigh "Yep again, this is going to be so awkward" 

I can hear her chuckle "You think he knows yet?"

I let out a sigh for the third time  "I don't know but he probably got told when I did and that's not even the most awkward part"

"Oh god, what is it?"

"I'm sharing a tour bus with him and Thomas Rhett"

"Well on the bright side at least you're not alone with him on the bus" 

"Oh thank the Lord for that... I'll let you go now Amber I just didn't have anyone else to tell my news too because you know to the outside world B and I've never met before" 

She laughs "if only they knew that you are the one he writes all of his songs about not me and you'll be alright babes who knows maybe this will be good for you guys, maybe you can reconnect and finally get back together"

I bite my lip at that "I don't know, A that is a little far fetched but we'll see about that when the time comes" 

I hang up the phone. 

I let out a sigh as my head falls back into the back of the couch. Well one thing is for sure this is going to be a hell of a time..... definitely, something that I will never forget and there is a small voice in the back on my mind that says Amber's right and this could be good for me and B but I push it to the side and ignore it because I can't let myself go down that road, not now maybe not ever.