Every Song Tells A Story (Montgomery De La Cruz Oneshots)

In Another Life - The Veronicas

 I have known you my whole life, When you were ten, you said you'd make me your wife
Eight years later you won me over
Just as I took the world on my shouldersI got used to living without you
Endless phone calls and dreaming about you
Always said that you were my man to be
But I guess I was in love with your memory

"I miss you too, Mon." I said into the phone while laying in my bed. This was the longest we'd gone without seeing each other in our entire lives. We both went off to college in two different states. Montgomery and I grew up together. We've known each other since the day I was born and he was only 3 months old. Our parents had been best friends since high school, so that friendship carried over to us. Even when Monty's mom left and his dad became abusive, we still stayed close and my parents still watched over him. He was the one constant person in my life outside of my parents. He was the one who kept me going, even on my hardest days. I always did the same for him. Our relationship had been pretty much platonic until we were 18 and it was our senior year of high school. He would jokingly say we were gonna get married all the time when we were little but that was mainly because he heard all of the adults always saying that we'd end up married one day. Other than that though, we were just best friends. I fell in love with him at some point over the years. At our senior fall dance towards the beginning of the year, I couldn't push my feelings down anymore. The punch was spiked and it gave me liquid courage. Enough liquid courage to walk right up to him and kiss him in front of everyone. It turned out that he felt the same way. We dated throughout our senior year and it didn't feel awkward at all. It felt right. It felt like that's what was always supposed to be. We were doing so good and even once we parted ways for school, we knew that we could make a long distance relationship work. As the months go on though, it becomes harder and harder. I miss him but I also feel myself learning to live without him. He's changed since he started college. Not necessarily in a bad way but he has changed. I feel like I don't really know the person that he is now and I can't help but to feel like I might still be in love with the ghost of a person who doesn't exist anymore. Every night when we hung up the phone, I can't help but to feel like I was talking to a stranger. Like the Monty that I know and love is just in my memory and not real anymore. My friends' think it's just the distance getting to me but my feelings feel so real and valid. Whenever we said our goodbyes that night, I couldn't help but to feel even more distant from him. I sighed and tucked myself into bed, dreaming about the brown haired, freckle faced little boy that I grew up with. Until I see him again, my dreams will have to do.

You know I love you, I really do
But I can't fight anymore for you
And I don't know, maybe we'll be together again
Sometime, in another life
In another life

"What the hell do you mean you think we need to break up?" Monty asked me three months later while standing in front of my tear stained face. "Things are just getting weird, Monty. I mean, we used to talk every day and now over the past few weeks, I'm lucky to get you on the phone once a week. You've changed and I don't even know anything about you anymore. I don't know your friends or what you like to do every day. I don't know what you're doing at those little frat parties..." "Oh, so you don't trust me now?" He interrupted me in a hard tone. "I never said that, it's just.. I don't know. It's weird, Mon. I don't feel as connected to you anymore and I don't like it." I finished while looking down to fumble with my fingers. "Then let's fix it.." "I don't think we can. I think we're different now. It's not gonna work anymore." I interrupted him. He looked at me in disbelief and his eyes started to fill with tears. "You're really doing this right now? You're really breaking up with me?" He gasped out, causing me to cry. "I'm sorry, Montgomery. I just can't sit around wondering about you anymore and feeling like I have to fight for the attention of a guy that I don't even know anymore." I whispered, looking down so I wouldn't have to look in his eyes. "You do know me though." He said desperately. "Not anymore." I whispered while shaking my head. "Maybe.. maybe later on down the road we can get to know each other again and fall in love with the new us but until then.. I just think we need to end it." I said as confidently as I could, even though my heart was breaking on the inside. "So that's it then? After all of our history, this is how you're gonna end it?" He raised his voice while standing up. Monty doesn't handle emotions well, they almost always come out as anger. "Come on, Monty, don't be like that." I pleaded with him but he shook his head and stormed off. I let my tears freely fall and I wrapped my arms around myself tight for comfort. It hurts so bad but at the same time, it feels right. It feels like it's what needed to be done. Our story in this life is over... at least for now.