Chapter One - I Love Everything About You That Hurts

He had long ago shut off his phone knowing that just one phone call would convince him to turn around he was making a mistake after all these months she wouldnt want to see him he was the reason she left in the first place was it not?

Just a little longer and he would be there, thanks to Katie he'd even gotten a brief outline of the town knowing exactly where to stop and ask if anyone knew where Sara Sidle lived. What if the town people banded together and formed a gang that wanted to beat him up for what he did. Would Sara really tell strangers what he did? He doubted it but stranger things have happened and he found himself locking his doors as he came closer to the town.

This is ridiculious the towns people would not be after him, they probably barely knew the newcomer something that Sara had soemthing to do with.

As he pulled up to the local diner he proceeded with caution the doubt in back of his mind he kept an eye on the passerby's hands and what they were carrying he could never be to careful. Hearing a jingle as he opened the door to the diner all eyes turned on him as he walked in, he'd forgotten he was the newbie and everyone would stare at him and talk behind his back until the waitress who had a job to perform would very slowly approach him, take his order and go back to say 'oh my god he ordered such and such' he just knew it.

The waitress however walked right up to him as he seated himself into a booth by the front.

"Morning love coffee?" she held a pot of steaming coffee he figured the worst he could get was second degree burns from the coffee and nodded and accepted the menu as she poured the coffee and deposited a few creamers by his coffee and leaving him alone to ponder the menu.

He really wasn't that hungry but it was better to be full then thinking of what he wanted to eat when he was in the middle of discussing the outcome of the rest of his life.

The waitress returned minutes later with a pad and paper; the pen could be stabbed into his heart and the paper could give him the tiniest of paper cuts that could become infected and he would die from blood poisioning. Now he was loosing it.

"The pancakes with a side order of bacon please" she scribbled away taking away his menu

"Won't be long" with a smile she was gone he wondered if she knew Sara but the less questions he asked her the better.

He would casually stroll into the post office that doubled as a convienent store, mentioning he was looking for someone and that rumour had it she'd last been known to live around here and if the clerk knew her. If he struck out there he would just simply have to resort to plan unmentionable and call Katie and somehow trick her out of it.

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Making her way to the grocery store in the early morning before she was due at work at the local police department she was the secrtary not the ideal job but she still was somewhat in charge of things when the officers were out. Her cell ringing made her stop and grab it off her hip a habit she never broke.

"Sidle"

"Hey Sara how are you?"

"I'm good and you, how's the baby?"

"Kicking up a storm. Look don't be mad but I think Greg is either there or on his way" she stopped in front of the diner unable to comprehend the words that were just spoken.

"Katie how did that happen?"

"I kinda sorta maybe possibly told him where you were"

"How could you?"

"Well we had coffee yesterday and he told me he really does love you and he regrets doing what he did so I let it slip where you were"

"That's exactly what he wanted you to do. Now what am I going to do"

"Be a grown up and talk to him" before she could reply she heard the click signalling Katie had hung up

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What made him look out the window he would never know but he saw the brown hair a moment before it walked on past the diner and down the street. Greg was just about to go chasing after her when his food arrived.

It was a small town how hard was it to find the newest member that didnt quite fit in?