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

 Amy, my manager called for a meeting, she's supposed to be telling me who I am going to be touring with, I just pulled up outside of her office, I was a little nervous about this but that's nothing new happens every time before I find out who I'm touring with.

Amy smiled warmly at me, as I walked into her office, "Hello Kelsey."

I smiled back at her, "So what have you got for me Amy?"

Her smiled widened, at my question, "I completely hooked you up Kels, I got you a spot on what's supposed to be one of the hottest tours of the year."

I just gave her a look, "Amy! Just spit it out, the suspense is killing me."

She just grinned a little wider, "Okay, okay, so I got you a spot on, The Devil Don't Sleep tour."

My eyes widened as I processed her words, "what?"

Amy gave me a look, narrowing her eyes "you know... I thought that you would be more excited about this."

I shook my head at her, "I can't do that Amy... you can't just throw me in like that."

She gave me a confused look, and just like that, I remembered that no ones knows about my past with Brantley... you see before I was discovered by Amy's label, I was just a normal small-town girl from Jefferson, Georgia.

I grew up with Brantley Gilbert, we were best friends, from the moment we met as kids and it stayed that way until our Freshman year of high school that was when things changed and we started dating, and we dated off and on for a while but most of the time we were on, but there were a few off times, that was until 2008... that was the last time we broke up, that was when I left him. I didn't want to leave, I loved him so much, he was the love of my life, but I just couldn't keep watching him destroy himself the way that he was back then. So I left him, hoping that it would make him see that he was ruining his life.

Everyone thinks that, it's Amber that he wrote, all of or well not all of but like 98% of his songs about, but that's not true, because they're about me, not her, and the three of us and pretty much anyone back home are the only ones that know about that little fact.

It was just easier to let everyone think, that their all about her.

Amy's voice was what knocked me out of my thoughts, "Kels! Are you even listening to me?"

I blinked and shook my head to clear it, "Sorry, what?"

She just sighed 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 Kels?"

I let out a bit of a bitter laugh, with a slight scoff, "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?"

Amy nodded, seemingly ignoring my tone. "All right so there are going to be four buses, one will be for, your, Brantley and Thomas' bands, the second one will be for Luke, Cole and Tyler's bands, third bus is for you, Thomas and Brantley. And the last one is for Luke, Tyler and Cole." (Honestly don't know if that's really how it works but that's how I'm doing it.)

I let out a sigh, running my hand through my hair, "Well this is certainly going to be one hell of a time... I just haven't decided if it's going to be good or bad yet." Amy just chuckled, not knowing the reasoning behind that statement. I walked out of Amy's office, this was going to be so awkward, I haven't seen him face to face, since I walked out of his life eight years ago.

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

Amber answered after the second ring, "what's up Kels?"

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

She paused for a second, "oooh, wait isn't that when Brantley's new tout starts?"

"Yep." I said popping the p.

I hear the realization in her voice as she said the next sentence. "Oh my god... Kels, your on his tour?"

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

I hear her chuckle, "do 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..."

I could hear the curiosity in her voice "Oh god... what is it?"

I pinched the bridge of my nose again, "I'm sharing a tour bus with him and Thomas Rhett."

She snorted at that, "well Kels, on the bright side at ;east you're not alone with him on the bus."

I blew out a breath, "Oh thank the Lord for that... I'll let you go now Amber... I just needed to talk to someone that knows about my past with B, since the out side world thinks that we've never met before... and you were the first person that I thought of."

She laughed at that, "Oh my god, 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 bit my lip at that, "I don't know A, that is a little far fetched, and I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you but we will see when the time comes." We said goodbye and I hung up the phone, letting out a sigh, as my head fell back against the back on the couch.

Well one thing was for sure, this was going to be a hell of a time, definitely will be something that I will never forget and there was a small voice in the back of my mind that was saying that Amber was right, that 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 back down that road, not now... maybe not ever.