"Hi doggy! Aren’t you just the cutest big thing. How’d you get up here? I bet you owner is looking for you." I say patting his head as his tags jingle. I get caught up petting him and don’t notice that someone else has entered the circle of logs.

"Good boy Teddy! I knew you’d find her!" I hear Ashley say as she comes close to us. I see that she has my green tank top in her hand.

"How’d you find me?" I say still petting Teddy.

"I didn’t find you he did. I taught him how to sniff stuff out when he was a puppy. I just gave him your shirt and he practically dragged me here." she says putting my shirt and a flashlight down.

"Well I don’t want you here! So take your dog and ‘leave me be’!" I say quoting her earlier words. She scoots closer to me and brings her hand up to my face. I am completely powerless.

"Even Teddy knows you don’t want me to leave. About earlier, I am sorry I got all bitchy. It’s just that you were so close to me… and I can’t stand being that close to you."  she says.

"Am I that grotesque? Am I really bad enough to repulse you? Maybe Glen was right, I should just move on and forget about you." I say trying to hurt her feelings.

"No, Spencer. I mean when you get close to me like that I can’t control myself. I think things I shouldn’t think, I want to do things I know I shouldn’t want to do. I feel like an animal. I can’t though Spencer, I can’t be that way around you. It will just screw everything up again. I want to be with you so bad, so so bad. Butit’s not right, Spencer. I-I just can’t. OK? I’m sorry" she looks at me with tears in her eyes. I lean over and steal a kiss from her lips. It feels like a final goodbye kiss.

"Ok. Fine." I say devestated and defeated as I get up and start to walk away.

"Where are you going?"

"Home. If I can’t have all of you, I can’t have you in my life. I can’t just be your friend Ashley." I say as Teddy comes up in front of me. I pause and he jumps up putting his paw on my heart. Some dogs can sniff out cancer, some drugs but Teddy sniffs out broken hearts. I don’t look back as I walk back through the forrest, not even once.