A/N: Hey guys! I'm sorry for disappearing but whenever I wanted to write, life got in the way. The story deals with how Amy and Karma deal with life without each other.I haven't done this in a while, so I hope you guys like the story! Let me know what you think!
Amy placed her bag on the bed as she looked around the room she had grown up in. Once upon a time it had been all that was familiar to her but now she couldn't even remember who she was when she'd lived here.
Lauren looked at Amy from her room, the way she had many times before. She couldn't believe Amy and she were back to living in their old house. They'd both left Austin right after high school. Lauren went to live with her dad in Dallas for a while before she went onto become a successful author and voice for the intersex community. Amy on the other hand had moved to Nashville with Karma to support her music career. Karma and Amy had gotten together in the middle of their junior year of high school, after Karma had confessed her feelings to Amy.
When high school came to an end, Amy couldn't bare the thought of being away from Karma and so they moved to Nashville, where Amy got her first job as a journalist at a local news channel.
A lot had changed since then, in ways only Amy and Karma knew. Amy could never really figure out what went wrong but circumstances had led to Amy being back home, starting over without Karma.
"Hey, you okay?" Lauren asked, as she walked into Amy's room.
"Yeah." Amy said with a sad smile as she looked up at Lauren.
"Are you going to tell me what you're doing back home?" Lauren asked, taking a seat next to Amy on her bed.
"Only if you tell me, why you're here." Amy said.
"I got bored of Dallas, so I decided to give Farrah some company." Lauren said.
"Right." Amy said, raising her eyebrow in disbelief.
"Enough about me, it's your turn." Lauren said.
"Same you know, I got bored of Nashville." Amy said, trying to sound convincing.
"I refuse to believe you got bored of a place that had Karma in it." Lauren said.
Amy just stared at the floor, not wanting to talk about Karma.
Lauren could sense that something had happened between Karma and Amy.
"Seriously Amy, what's going on?" Lauren asked.
"Karma and I broke up." Amy said, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Why?" Lauren asked, putting her arm around Amy.
"I don't want to talk about it." Amy said, leaning her head on Lauren's shoulder.
"It's okay, we don't have to." Lauren said, feeling bad for Amy. It was things like this that made her hate Karma, she'd never admit it but she couldn't bare to see Amy cry.
"I have no idea where she is." Amy said after a while.
"Who?" Lauren asked, pulling away from Amy.
"Karma." Amy said.
"When did you guys break up?" Lauren asked.
"Six months ago." Amy said.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Lauren asked.
"I didn't want to deal with it. I mean I tried to focus on work but everything reminded me of Karma and I just couldn't take it anymore. So, I decided to come home." Amy said.
"You should've called me." Lauren said.
"I know." Amy said, leaning her head back on Lauren's shoulder.
They sat there for a while and for the first time in a long time, Amy felt safe.
The next morning, Lauren marched into Amy's room and drew the blinds.
"What are you doing?" Amy asked, irritated.
"I have to go shopping and you're coming with me." Lauren said, pulling Amy's blanket off of her.
"Is this your idea of cheering me up, really?" Amy asked.
"This is my way of snapping you out of your Karma funk. Now go get dressed." Lauren said.
"Aaaah!" Amy groaned as she tried to get her blanket back but she knew there was no way Lauren was going to let her sleep.
Amy reluctantly got ready and went to the mall with Lauren.
"This is making me sadder, if that's even possible." Amy said.
"Oh shush, wait out here." Lauren said as she walked into the trial room.
As Lauren went into the trial room to try on her seventh outfit, Amy decided to find a place to sit. She was walking toward the couch that she had found after what felt like forever, when she heard a familiar voice call out her name.
"Amy?" The voice said.
Amy turned around and once again the red head standing in front of her had managed to make her heart skip a beat.
"Karma?" Amy said.
"What are you doing here?" Karma asked.
"I just moved back home, what are you doing here?" Amy asked.
"I just came home to visit my parents. How are you doing?" Karma asked, nervously.
Just as Amy was about to answer, their conversation was interrupted by a tall blonde putting her arms around Karma's waist.
"There you are babe." The blonde said, kissing Karma.
It was when Karma put her hand on the blonde's face as they kissed that Amy noticed a sparkling diamond ring on the fourth finger of Karma's left hand.
Karma embarrassedly looked at Amy as Amy looked back at her with a heartbroken look on her face.
"Melissa, this is Amy. Amy, this is Melissa, my fiancé." Karma said, sheepishly.
"It's nice to meet you." Melissa said with a smile as she extended her hand toward Amy.
Amy looked at Karma for a second and before Amy could respond, Lauren came, calling out to Amy.
"Karma?" Lauren said.
"Hey Lauren, how are you?" Karma asked with a smile.
"Who is this?" Lauren asked, looking at Melissa.
"Karma's fiancé." Amy replied.
As soon as she heard it, Lauren knew it was Amy and her queue to leave.
"It's nice to meet you." Melissa said, with a smile.
"Whatever. We're leaving." Lauren said, pulling Amy by the hand.
"They seem nice." Melissa said, once they'd left. Karma couldn't hear a word because all she could think about was the look on Amy's face when she'd heard Karma was engaged, she just looked so hurt.
"Babe?" Melissa said, putting her arm around Karma.
"Yeah?" Karma said.
"Are you okay?" Melissa asked.
"I'm all good." Karma said, with a fake smile as they walked out of the store.
Neither Lauren nor Amy said a word, they just got into the car to go home. The car was filled with a silence which was replaced by the sound of Amy crying.
"God I hate Karma!" Lauren said, as she put her hand on Amy's leg, while still trying to look at the road.
Amy couldn't stop the tears, no matter how much she tried. It killed her to think that she and Karma would never be together again. It was one thing to break up, it was another to know that Karma had picked someone else to spend her life with. Amy realized that her just being Princess Sarcasm would never be enough for Karma.