Before reading this, I suggest listening to 'Whiskey Lullaby' if you haven't already heard it. I took my inspiration for this story from that song.

{Rest of Author's note at the bottom}

The world can be cruel at times. Dark, selfish, and cruel. And if it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine, it destroys it.

~Tangled~

Grimmjow's POV

Sometimes, I swear the world is plotting against me. As if it can tell when I'm extremely happy and ok with my life, and decides that I don't deserve it. Which maybe I don't.

Maybe this sadness is a punishment. Punishment for all the bad things I've done in my life.

Or maybe, I was just to stupid to notice the signs. The fact that I didn't realize they were unhappy, makes me sick to my stomach. Shouldn't I have seen it, or does that mean I actually didn't care? That this relationship was just a lie? A way to forget the pain of my childhood?

'No, our relationship...that wasn't the lie,' I tell myself as I stumble down the street away from our...my old home.

As I'm walking, I pay no attention to my surroundings, just blindly shuffling along. I know I should probably find shelter, seeing as its mid-November, and the sky looks as if at any moment it would open up in a mixture of rain and sleet.

I was half tempted to storm back to the house, and drop to my knees to beg for his forgiveness, but some part of me knew that he had made his mind up. Ichigo was stubborn like that, when it came to protecting someone he loved.

When the first drops of rain fell on my head, I finally stopped walking, taking a moment to look at my surroundings. My feet had brought me to the top of a hill, underneath an old willow tree. Our willow tree. The one we used to waste our time under in high school, talking about useless things. It seemed like a regular thing, we'd come here after school everyday and just talk for hours. We were the best of friends, and I think that's what helped our relationship start.

I didn't even notice when the rain stopped, or when the clouds seem to part above me, revealing a starry night in it's place. I finally sat down underneath the old tree, scratching a random pattern in the dirt.

'Why...why do I feel so...broken?' I ask myself, unused to this pain in my chest. It hurts, and all I want it to do is go away. Clawing at my chest, I finally climb back to my feet, heading back down the way I came. I don't even realize the tears running down my face, or the way my hand claws at my chest, as if trying to rip my heart out.
"Ichigo...why...after so long...why now..?" I ask out loud, choking back my sobs.

A/N: This is mostly just a 'Prologue' I guess..

This story will be very angst-y, and sad. Also, sorry for the shortness of this chapter, but I wanted to get it out before the New Year (it's only 11:30 here :3) because I've had this in my head for a looong time. I was planning on making it only a one-shot, but then decided on making it multi-chapter.

So, if you would review please? :3 and

HAPPY NEW YEAR!