Beautifully Tragic

By Molly The Monster

Song: Somebody That I Used To Know, Gotye featuring Kimbra

You treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough.

"So, how's everything going?" Dominique asks Teddy from the couch, breaking the silence that had fallen between them. Dominique had come to Teddy and Victoire's flat to see her sister, but Teddy had answered the door, saying Victoire wasn't home yet.

"Fine," says Teddy tersely from his seat at the table. Dominique bites her lip, wondering what she should say next, but Teddy speaks first. "How's work?"

"Oh, it's really great," says Dominique. "I really like what I've been doing so far." Dominique stops, hoping Teddy will ask her what she's been doing so far.

But he doesn't.

"Nice weather we're having," he says instead.

"Yeah," Dominique agrees. It's like he's speaking to someone he's just met, a stranger. Not someone he's known most of his life. Not someone who's loved him for all of hers.