Until October

"All these years of distancing myself, of pushing everyone away, of making sure no one ever got close." She paused and winced as if it were painful to continue. "And then you show up. You walk into my life, and make me question everything I've worked for over the years." Her light broken tone was gone. With each word the wall was built back up. "And now you're ready to just stand up and leave? No. Too many people have left me. I'm leaving you. If you cared for me at all, forget. Act as though an 'us' never existed, as though I never existed. Hell that's what I'm going to try to do." She walked away as the crisp autumn air blew her hair in a beautiful crazy mess. And it hit him. The loss. He just lost his beautiful crazy girl. What had he done?