“What’s up with you?” Kyla asked suspiciously as we jogged. I asked her to come with me because it had been so long since we had hung out with just the two of us. We were running the nature trail but were only going to do three miles that day; since Kyla had a date with Aiden and didn’t want to kill herself jogging. Ashley had tried to come with us and I almost gave in when she backed me into her bedroom wall with kisses but I put my foot down and she grudgingly agreed that I needed some time with Kyla.

                “I don’t know what you mean,” I said airily, as we avoided a large tree limb that had fallen over the path.

                “You seem…different,” She said, waving her arm in a wide gesture.

                “Nope, same old Spencer.” I said, grinning from ear to ear as we took a wide turn and jogged lightly over the bridge. At the second mile marker Kyla started walking and I slowed down to a light jog to keep with her.

                “Don’t make me hurt you, something is up.” She said, breathing a bit deeper than normal as I handed her the water bottle that I had strapped to my running backpack which I carried weights in.

                “We told each other that we loved each other last night.” I finally said, letting out a small pleased sigh as I thought about it again. Kyla raised an eyebrow and shook her head.

                “You’ve only been together for two weeks;”

                “I know, but we’ve known each other our whole lives and I really do love her.”

                “I have no doubts that you love each other Spence; I just don’t want things to get messy. She’s leaving in five weeks.” I stopped jogging as well to scowl at her.

                “We’ll make it work.”

                “Okay, I’m sorry.” She said, holding her hands up in surrender as I started to jog again. It had been at the front of my mind that Ashley would be leaving soon but it still hurt to hear it said out loud. We would make it work; I knew that we would. With the technology that’s in the world today it would be like she never left.