He’s coming back today. He’s coming back and everything will be back to normal. No, better than normal. She’s single, he’s single, they’ve been waiting for this since the day they met. He walks in the door and she has never been happier in her life.

- - -

The day hasn’t gone at all how she thought it would. It’s been awkward. Every time she tries to talk to him, he brushes her away. What is going on?

He’s seeing someone. He’s seeing her. She walks to her car and worries about driving. She can’t see through the salty tears running down her face. She’d been waiting for him to come back for ages and today he was going to. But he didn’t.

"He’s never coming back," she thinks, praying that she’s wrong and knowing that she’s right.