This seemed like a good place to end this.
Nathan looked around his empty apartment, his life was now in boxes, his and Haley's. Packing it in the back of his car, he shut the trunk. Looking one last time at the place where he'd spent the last six months of his life. So many firsts, my first marriage, my first wife, my first heart break.
Getting into his car, he drove to an out of town storage place, he dumped his stuff, the boxes and everything in an small room. Paying the fee for the next year, he grabbed his keys and moved to lock the door and looked back one last time. Pulling his wedding ring out of his pocket, he wrapped it in a tissue and stuck it in a random box.
Locking the door, he walked down the silent dark empty hallway to his car, where the rest of his life was waiting for him.
Haley ran off stage, seeing a courier guy standing around, he motioned her over and handed a flat package. Smiling she signed for it, her smile crashed when she saw the contents.
Divorce papers.
The rush of the crowd around her, the pulse of the music faded into the background as she looked down at the papers, which would sever a part of her forever, if she signed them…
Taylor looked around at her life, dancing on bar tops, service with a smile and a pinch on the ass. This is my life…what can I do to change it? What I want is unattainable, may as well take what I can get.
Pasting a fake smile on her face, she passed a guy a beer in exchange for a couple sweaty bills. Smiling at his leering face, was all she could do as she fell back into her place in life.
Nathan drove past the big sign, "Thanks for visiting Tree Hill, come again soon." Sighing, he looked at his options, north or south. Flipping a coin, he picked north. Turning right, he followed the road into the darkness. A hint of dawn crept over the horizon, hopefully he'd finally found the light at the end of the tunnel.
End
Hope you enjoyed this brief but short story of heartbreak.