Those Same Blue Eyes

Chapter 3

Rachel's POV
I walked out of the diner as quickly as possible. Mia stopped me as soon as we get out. "Emily huh? as in the ex emily?" She was furious. I love her to death and she's never hit me before but i still get scared. She knows all about Matt and Emily. She noticed i flinched a little when she raised her voice and immediately felt bad. "hey no no no, it's okay baby" she said and softly lifted my chin so i was looking at her. Emily did the same thing to me when i was upset. No, get that girl out of your head. you have mia, you love mia.

There's a good reason i broke up with Emily. Don't get me wrong, Emily is my absolute everything. I mean was. When we graduated everything was perfect, she was going to her dream college and i was staying home working at some movie theater. College wasn't my thing. Anyway, we were great for the first 4 months of her being at college. We called all the time and texted, but magically one day that stopped. I can't describe the hurt i felt that the one person i wanted to talk too, didn't want to talk to me. She started acting suspicious and real shady. It was late one night and i was watching "You" on netflix. I got a random text from a number that said Emily was cheating on me. Of course i didn't believe it at first. but then it all made sense. So i broke it off with her.

Emily's POV
I stood there in silence. Dylan walked in and came up to me. "hey em" i didn't say anything. "em you in there?" he said again while waving a hand in my face. i came back to earth, i lunged forward and gave dylan a huge hug. god have i missed him! "what happened?" was all he could ask, he knows when something bothers me. "i saw rachel and her new girlfriend i think.." i felt my eyes start to tear up so i grabbed dylan for another hug. why did my heart hurt so bad? she broke my heart, not the other way around. why'd she even call my name to begin with? i haven't talked to her since she broke it off.

Later that Night
Dylan's family invited me to go the annual christmas bash our town had every year. Every store on main street, decorated their windows with lights and at exactly midnight they all light their windows up, signaling that it is officially christmas eve. i break apart of dylan and his family and go to my favorite store. it's a little shop where this old couple paint things that inspire them. i walk in and immediately felt peace. soft christmas music played as i walked around.

i stop dead in my tracks where i see the edge of town in a painting. it's breathtaking, i turn around quick to go ask how much it is, no sooner did i do that i ran into someone and made them fall causing me to fall on top of them. i apologized so many times "i am so so sorry, are you okay?" i heard laughing "calm down em, god you're here for one day and you're taking me down" Dylan sat up and i grabbed his hand to help get him up. "you'd make a good linebacker with a tackle like that" i laughed and told him i'd be right back. i walked up the front of the store to ask about the painting and guess who was there, Rachel and her little girl toy. I tured back on my heels, i'll ask about it later.