She turns, her stormy eyes heavy with something unspoken. “My partner got a promotion,” she says. “We’re moving – about six hundred miles away, to his company’s main office.” The neighbors wander off, and I fight the urge to pull her into a hug. A black sedan rolls up, and she says quickly, “That’s him – I have to go.”
She darts across the street and slides into the car without a backward glance.
The sedan pulls away, and the moving van lumbers off, leaving my spot open. I trudge back to my car, a hollow ache settling in my chest, like I’ve just lost something I never really had. With this bitter sting of being too late – again – I could drive straight into the damn wall…
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