Through my tear-blurry sight I saw his eyes take on a look like the world has ended. Such sadness and pain that it almost took my soul but I couldn't think, couldn't say anything.

Without saying a word he gets up and leaves. Alas, I am too entangled in my own grief for that to register more than a casual shadow. Hours of tears, tossing and turning in bed and a heaviness that overlaid everything.

It is afternoon the next day before I could think even close to straight. In any of my prior love disasters, Kevin would be my comfort. He has been there for my whole life. When...