I had another one-shot planned under the same name as this, but that proved a little difficult to finish.

Also, I wanted to get this out sooner, but obviously, work is sort of holding me back from doing so, as some of y'all know.

Anyways, nothing to say except language warning & this is another in-between story. Take a wild guess as to which chapters it's in between (HINT: In "Opposites Attract")

"It's over Sam!"

These words were circling both Sam & Ember's heads as they parted, for what seemed like for good. However, neither one felt like they could actually go through with these words. In fact, Ember was this close to contacting him, but couldn't. Just to please her parents... yeah, she was kicking herself, more on that later.

"I'm crashing your grand re-opening, like it or not!"

This was the craziest idea I EVER had, yet, wanted to go through with it. I started to plan this for about a good half hour before another train showed up. And after I boarded the train to take me back to my penthouse, oh god... I started to have an internal breakdown, but on the outside, I was STEAMING mad! Facepalming myself for more than half of the ride home. That's the first (attempted) breakup that I didn't initiate, yet, not the first breakup I dealt with, so... I was actually unsure on how to handle this if directed to me.

"I'm so lucky to have found you in the first place... makes me the bad guy!? HOW!? I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO DISRESPECT EMBER! YET THIS IS HOW I'M TREATED!?" I full on yelled at the top of my lungs, thinking I was alone on the train.

Someone must've noticed, as they gestured me to sit with them.

"Hey... you there, everything okay?" the voice asked.

I immediately became embarrassed, but unlike Ember, I couldn't just hide my emotions & feelings, so spilled everything to this person here.

"Oh yeah... if you don't count an attempted brutal breakup, just because of not only their disapproving parents, but being polar opposite elements from one another, being I'm water, and the one that just attempted to leave me was fire... yeah, things are fucking great, you?" I responded. That person would instead seat herself beside me.

"Wait... you dated fire? But, how?" I was asked. I really wanted to explain it all, but I just couldn't.

"It doesn't matter... me not understanding was just the simple reason it could never work... even if this was said indirectly... this was all just a stupid mistake I made. I should've resigned from City Hall after the lighter fluid incident, maybe this would've never happened in the first place, and the Lumen's would've lived normally... without dealing with me whatsoever. Officially I think she hates my guts due to who I am." I said back, my voice slightly breaking.

"Lumen? As in... Fireplace?" Sigala (other friend I had) asked back.

"Yup, that one... and before you ask... it was their daughter, Ember. Believe me, I did everything I could. But the fact that I fucked up and told her how lucky I was to have found her... I don't even know what to do anymore. I'm kind of trapped." I responded back. She knew who I was talking about. Even knew Ember's takeover was imminent, however, was 100% now happening. But what I want to know now is how someone I haven't talked to since high school knew about me dating fire. Presumably, it was believed to have been someone telling her, well, someone I knew, obviously.

"Samuel, stop! When you said it was all a stupid mistake... that's just what your brain is telling you! I know you very well! This is not the Samuel I remember... the one I remembered was so strong, so brave, so damn fearless that it's not even funny. Just because you hit Rock Bottom, does not mean just end it all... I'm sure this is the first time handling something like this?" She replied to me

I wasn't about to tell her about my previous 3 attempts of having a girlfriend gone wrong. So, I had to make it up, hoping she wasn't the water equivalent of Cinder Lumen.

"Uh, yeah, first time, you know? You never forget your first break up... even if I had to disagree with such behavior." I said, tears starting to roll down my face. Yeah, I didn't think Sigala bought this response, judging by the look on her face when I said that in hysterics. Truthfully, I hated lying, and instantly remembered the last time I tried that stunt, of course the consequence was much bigger than this, being outright banned from The Fireplace altogether, however, Bernie still bought that fact that I was a "food inspector", so was technically never caught for that, I was only caught for making their Kol-Nuts less than 5000 degrees.

"Ok, fine, you win. I had 3 other people I tried in the past, ironically... the first was a water person, then I tried air, and last, I tried earth. All of them actually made me feel like a somebody back then, because my life had felt like one disaster after another, plus, I didn't even know that fire would make me have even stronger feelings than I ever once had. Water didn't work because of the old not ready for a long term relationship type thing. Air didn't work because they didn't want to spend the rest of their life with me, which I understood and let her go. And Earth did something unforgivable... and that was to have an affair behind my back, this earth person actually was the same as Ember in this regard, being that we were madly in love with one another at first sight. I planned my whole life and everything, that was until I saw her with another earth citizen, I had to call it off immediately, giving her the words that I didn't love her anymore. And that's when I stopped dating, until several days ago when that freak accident washed me up in The Fireplace, and I met fire. Oh, and I made something spectacular happen half an hour ago. I touched her, with no harm." I would respond in full confidence, however, the train was nearing the portion where it'd be a 3 minute walk back to the penthouse.

"Wow... so you have dealt with this before... yet, the one that just happened, you didn't call off? That... that kind of hurts a little, if you ask me. Best I'd do is just let her know how sorry you are, it may not do much, but at least you'll still care about her, right?" She tried to jab back.

"Sigala, this is different, I'm finding it very hard to let her go, in fact, I just can't at all. However, I'm showing up unannounced at her takeover of The Fireplace in 2 days, so I'll just tell her then." I responded. Sigala having a look of confusion when I mentioned that event.

"You can't just show up unannounced! No, that's not what I had in mind when I told you that a minute ago... just like, call her or something, if you have her phone number." She responded. I did think about it again, then responded out of confidence.

"Look, I know it sounds crazy, but it's basically the best I can do at this point, regardless of if one agrees or not... I just need to see her again. I still love Ember with all my watery heart. I actually wonder right now if she's still thinking of... know what? It doesn't matter..."

Oh yes, I knew Ember was still thinking of me and being all like "Why? Why did I just do that to him? The ONLY one that actually knew how I felt about my life... I just had to lie again just to make them proud!"

5 minutes later, and the train finally pulled up to my stop.

"Promise you'll think about what I said just now?" Sigala asked me, and after a nod, I parted from her, and went back to the penthouse. To the shock of no one, Reid was the only other one home, so was vibing to some music on his iPod, he had no idea I just returned, with a slight numb look on my face. All I wanted to do at this point was to fall asleep and try and forget about it all.

"I'm fire, you're water!" I kept mocking back to myself. Then followed up (as a vent to myself) with, "Whether your parents like it or not, I'm a goddamn water person, and that ain't about to change! Bernie fucking Lumen, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO ACCEPT THIS!"

Reid noticed, and took off his earplugs to notice what was going on.

"Let me guess, you were forced to break up with her or what?" Reid asked, completely unaware that the "break up" only happened because of her "loyalty" to her family, of which I think she was still faking at this point just to get me out of her life.

"Oh no. It isn't over until I say it's over! Imma show up unannounced at her takeover of The Fireplace in 2 days from today! That's how mad I am at her currently. She just became a full on nightmare to deal with... ALL BECAUSE I TOLD HER HOW LUCKY I WAS TO HAVE FOUND HER! How on motherfucking earth does that make me a terrible person!?" I said back to Reid, all the while raising my voice the whole time.

"CALM DOWN! You're not making anything better by complaining about it. And honestly, her takeover of said location is actually a good thing if you think about it." Reid responded, but he didn't know the truth, only I did.

"Except... it's forced upon. It wasn't what she wanted at all. I've been told that she absolutely doesn't want to run the shop at all. And started going on all about it, this was all last night, by the way." I said to him, and when he heard that, he began recollecting memories of Ember looking slightly nervous about running the joint during dinner last night.

The reaction he gave was one I could expect, one of pure shock, and sadness. "Oh... my... god..." he muttered under his breath. This, if not already made obvious, was Reid's pet peeve, seeing or hearing about people being made into something they weren't.

"You cannot be serious, right!?" Reid simply responded. In which I just gave a slight nod to. The rage I saw building up in him was quite unbelievable. Of course, he had to hide this rage in him. "There's good in all people... even fire" he muttered again. I just wanted to tell him everything about how adamant her parents were with no funny business regarding this situation at all, but in reality, they were loving parents to her, even if Ember didn't see that in them at certain points.

Little while later, I told him my intentions of showing up unannounced at the grand re-opening for The Fireplace, and even said that I'd attempt to cancel this takeover. "I'm not sure that's a good idea Sam... think about what'd happen if she still said no to you. I don't want a repeat of what happened to our lost brother... I don't think I can handle that." Reid would respond to me. During which time, my vision began to blur quite heavily, indicating I was very tired. "Hey man... sorry, I'm tired as fuck right now and I'm seconds away from falling asleep." I responded to him, then (attempted) to fall asleep.

1:50 AM

The entire ordeal still kept replaying in my head. This was so much so that I just could not rest at all that night, instead, still having major lucid dreams, and on top of that, I kept on waking up on numerous occasions. I even almost thought about leaving her a voicemail, but given as I went under the assumption that Ember no longer wanted anything to do with me at all, I didn't at all.

To say this went on all night was just the gist of it.

Decided I'd make this a 2 parter since this was in the 2 day time period (in-story) between the attempted break-up and the grand re-opening gone wrong.

Oh, and regarding that one fanfic I (still) have planned that I mentioned at the end of my last published story... I still don't know if I'm ready to do that one yet.

Have a great day/night, otherwise!