ON the surface, our relationship hasn't change.

"I'm losing EVERYTHING FOR YOU!" He says.

But secretly, and not-s0-secretly, he wants me to leave. Not return his calls. Not respond.

In this way, the war ends. For us.

Why I know this? Because he could have opened the truck door, and stopped me.

"Hey, Lace..."

But he didn't. He sat there. d.

You can program a man, but not a heart.

A heart would have chased me down the street.