From Above
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby
Fieldplume
Heart-Break
Fuck the others. After they broke up, there was only one woman on Noel's mind. He was happy in his current relationship, the Lliana just had something missing.
"Oh, uh, hi Noel." Dee nodded to her ex, and he nodded back. "This is, uh, this is Tom."
"Hello Tom. I'm Noel, this is De- Lliana! This is Lliana." He cowered under Lliana's glare. "Well, we'd better go."
The exes retreated to oppisite sides of the pub, but they felt strange. They felt empty. They were missing something. They were missing each other. And if they had touched, they would of felt their hearts beating in synch, and they would have felt them stay that way forever.
They seemed to be seeing more of each other after they broke up than when they did when they were together. At a bookstore, at a party, and a movie. Of course, only Dee noticed him, but they both had that feeling.
They both remember every moment of that night, too. The cinema was having a romantic comedy week, and that day was the 'While You Were Sleeping' day. They both chose the 6:30 showing, and Dee sat directly behind Noel and Lliana, who didn't watch the movie for most of the time.
The exes never made eye contact, but they felt strange. They felt empty. They were missing something. They were missing each other. And if they had touched, they would of felt their hearts beating in synch, and they would have felt them stay that way forever.
Of course, it's not like they were actually unhappy in the lives they lived. They both just had this little feeling, deep inside. A naked absense, a phantom limb. An itch that could never be scratched.
Dee loved Tom, and Noel loved Lliana. But they weren't soul mates. Dee's soul mate was Noel, Lliana's soul mate was a man called David, and Tom's soul mate was his best mate, Ben.
And who knows whether that's how it should be. Maybe we should live with a gaping hole in our hearts, maybe our ghosts live in that vacancy.
The exes never talked again, but they felt strange. They felt empty. They were missing something. They were missing each other. And if they had touched, they would of felt their hearts beating in synch, and they would have felt them stay that way forever.