It was time for a change, and Eridan had saved up his entire life for what was about to happen. He was fresh out of high school, and he wanted to attend an art college far from home. His girlfriend, Feferi, had agreed to move out with him and let him follow his dreams while she would make the two hour drive to and from her college. Luckily, she could come home every weekend and stay in the dorms during the week.

Eridan was hustling and bustling about, cleaning the small house he had moved into only hours before. His furniture wouldn't arrive for a few days, but he prepared for what he had with him. Feferi would be arriving in less than an hour, and everything had to be perfect. The house was small, a living room inside the front door that connected to the kitchen, and a hallway that lead into a small bedroom, a bathroom, and the master bedroom. The place was out of date, but Eridan really liked it. The black and white linolium in the kitchen was complimented by its canary yellow cabinets and lavender walls. The living room had white shag carpeting and powder blue walls, which continued down the hallway. The small bedroom had gray walls with orange carpeting and black crown moulding. The bathroom had olive tile floors and bright, lime walls. The master bedroom and master bathroom were less out of date; the bedroom with dark hardwood floors and gray walls. The master bathroom had cyan walls and black tile flooring.

The place was very dirty, mostly with dust and cobwebs. He vacuumed all the carpetted rooms, and swept and mopped the tile and wood. He had to make sure every thing was spotless. He was so excited to have Feferi coming to live with him; at the time he asked, he was sure she would refuse him, but she had said yes and they had agreed on the place. He was so thrilled; he loved Feferi so much that he promised himself when she came through that front door that he would be on his left knee, the ring his grandfather had proposed to his grandmother with in his hands. He was going to ask her to marry him.

The doorbell rang.

"Shit!" he mumbled to himself, fumbling around through his things to find the little black box. He had spent so much time cleaning that he had forgotten to get the ring out. He heard the locks in the door turning. Then he found it, and just as he got down on his knee, the door opened.

"Erid- Oh, um...gosh...D-Don't do this Eridan...um, I have to tell you something. Please get up off the ground...um..." Feferi pushed her fuchsia glasses back up to the bridge of her nose as Eridan stood up, returning the box to his pocket. He was a little hurt by that, but it'd nothing he couldn't recover from. She did agree to live with him, after all.

"Eridan...I've decided not to live here. It's too far away from the school, so I'm going to go live closer to it. I'm sorry. And, I think we should consider seeing other people. For both our sakes, okay? It's not you, it's me; I just need a change."
"Wh-what? But, Fef, we picked this place together! We, we planned to come here. We're halfway across the country, and, and you want change? I don't understand...you won't be too far away to keep up our relationship...we can still see each other, can't we? We can't keep going out?"
"As just friends, yes. But I just can't be a couple with you anymore. This is my new life, Eridan. I have to get out and explore."
"Oh, so I was just a tool to you? A way to get out here, right? So you can just dump me halfway through all the moving? Fine. Go on then. It doesn't matter. Just give me back that key." He was furious, and he was sad. He snatched the key away from Feferi.
"Eridan, we can still be friends. Don't be so overdramatic."
"Overdramatic? Over-fucking-dramatic, you say? How else am I supposed to reply to this shit? How did it all go in your mind, in your ideal little world, Fef? Huh? Did you think I'd just be all happy and jumping for joy over you leaving me? I fucking love you, I went to extra effort to try and find a place you would like...and this is what I get? Fuck that! Now go on. Get out. You can't stay here with me."
"Oh, so now we can't even be friends? Is that how you're going to be?"
"Yes, that's how I'm going to fucking be. I fucking love you, but you're just going to dump me for some 'change'? I could have spent the rest of my life with you. I wanted to! But no! Get out! Leave me alone, God dammit!" He was yelling now. Feferi nodded once, and silently, she left the room, she left the house, and she left the town.

Eridan was on his own again.

The new semester would be starting soon. He could make new friends and find a new girl to go out with.

As many girls as he wanted, in fact!

Oh, who the fuck was he kidding, anyway? He knew he'd probably never get over Feferi. He was, after all, totally in love with her.

But he guessed others probably had it worse than he did.

Somewhere out there, he was sure, someone was always losing someone else. He jsut happened to be one of those people today.

He was also sure he wasn't the least fortunate of the day's victims.