I suspected this. Months. Maybe a year at this point. The way he jumped at the sound of his phone. The gym membership. The growing amount of trips that were exclusively business or “for the boys”. But this… this was proof. A single piece of mail. A lease was ending in the next city over. My entire body sagged as I read their names together over and over attempting to wrap my brain around something...

Everything was abuzz with excitement and love

My heart skipped a beat as my eyes took in the view

The flowers, the smiles, the cloudless sky above

And then I took a glance at you

My legs threatened to give out

My lungs quivered as I gasped

My heartbeat thundered about

As our hands finally clasped

There you stood

Your smile in a brilliant curve

Your eyes full of tears that I understood

How could...