─── starter for @lucebakershqs / at the farmer's market
It was another day of running some errands for Aileen and while Vancouver was a city of decent size, it had the ability to feel small sometimes. Mostly when it came to running into people you couldn't exactly escape from. Matt readjusted the beanie he wore atop his head at the sight of the blonde that had broken his heart after he'd broken hers. It wasn't the best day for a run-in with anyone, there was so much that he was trying to get done, but Matt had never been the type that had been good at ignoring people nor giving them the cold shoulder. So much emotion was tied up in Lucy and their past, the way things ended, and the fact that he had to see her living her life around him without him. Despite all her thoughts and feelings, he really and truly had wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. There were just hang ups when it came to putting the ring on her finger. People seemed to always exit Matt's life and it had become a deeply rooted fear that she would leave too, especially since the mother of his child had done so without saying a word the moment he wanted to make their relationship as official as it could be. He never wanted to put that on Lucy, but he had to accept that he had asked her to wait too long.
Sighing, swallowing down his pride, and biting the bullet he approached her. "I can't decide if I'm surprised to see you here or not," he said, offering a tiny smile. Mostly he was trying to be friendly. But if he could manage it, Matt wanted to get to a place where he could ask how she was doing and how she'd been.