AN: This goes out to my pal, thevaliumsofa. She is an Adele fan like me and we said this song had to be made into a one-shot. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did hearing Someone Like You over and over on iTunes.
Someone Like You
A man sat on a park bench that overlooked the water on a sunny spring day in April. He closed his eyes and simply enjoyed a gentle breeze that floated across his face. He took a deep breath of the fresh air that entered his lungs, exhaled and took another deep breath. His eyes snapped up when a faint familiar flowery fragrance dragged him out of his sense of bliss.
Memories flooded his brain as his eyes focused on the vision in front of him. His breath hitched a bit in the shock of actually seeing her. She offered a soft and simple smile to the man as she pushed her hair behind her ear. Without being asked, she carefully took the seat next to him on the bench.
She spoke in a steady and low voice as she looked at him hands on his thigh.
"I heard that you're settled down, that you found a girl and you're married now. I heard that your dreams came true. Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you," she said.
He looked over at her, opened his mouth then closed it again as he decided to stay silent for a minute more. He bowed his head trying to form a sentence that seemed nearly impossible for some reason that he could not explain.
"Old friend, why are you so shy? Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light," she said. "I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited, but I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it, I had hoped you'd see my face, and that you'd be reminded that for me it isn't over," she got out in a quick breath and stole a glacnce at him however he continued to not look her in the eye.
"Nevermind, I'll find someone like you. I wish nothing but the best for you, too. Don't forget me, I beg," she said with a teary smile that didn't reach her eyes.
The brown haired man with espresso colored eyes turned in his seat to face her and was about to say something. She put her hand up to silence him because the glint from his gold ring on his left hand, when he turned to face her, stabbed her deeper than she thought.
"You know how the time flies. Only yesterday was the time of our lives. We were born and raised in a summer haze, bound by the surprise of our glory days," she said and remembered the fun they had in the sun.
"Nothing compares. No worries or cares. Regrets and mistakes, they're memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?" she laughed humorlessly as his wife came into her line of sight. She stood up and left the man seated on that park bench that overlooked the water before his wife could identify her.
"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead, yeah," Hannah said to herself as she walked away.
She forced herself to turn around for one last look. There she saw the picture perfect family that began to walk in the opposite direction than herself. The man who once asked for her to be his future slipped his hand into his wife's hand, placed a kiss on her temple and pulled his oldest son close for a hug before he pushed the younger one in the navy stroller.
"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead," she let one tear fall down her face as she folded her arms across her chest and set off for her next adventure.