Ally was fading. He knew it. She was too good to be true. Too perfect to be real. Too amazing to be his. She deserved more than what he could offer, and yet, he could never, ever, let her go. She was too important to him. He wanted her to stay with him for as long as he could get her to. And apparently that wasn't very long.
She'd been growing apart from him, Austin failed to keep her close enough that she was his, but not far enough that she was gone. she would look him in the eyes and he would see that they had lost their beautiful sparkle. She'd gone away for the summer, and she'd never been the same. she changed. Grown out of him, sought out, and found better options. She would realize that he was not what her heart truly wanted, that he wasn't enough.
She distanced herself. Acting as though she'd never know him, Pretend that he was never if her life, like he meant nothing.
He'd ruined their friendship. He'd ruined everything. The perfect equilibrium they'd had. they'd created. Everything.
And then she left. She went one day, never coming back. Never looking back. He never looked forward. Lives solely on the past, reliving that time they were together, the best part of his life. He crawled inside hinself, tucking away into the fantasy that she was still with him.
he died. Alone. Never creating himself a new life.
She came to his funeral. She still looked twenty. Still so beautiful. Perfect. She have a speech, about how he'd been too young, too great to die. She told his loved ones, the few he still had, that she regretted not talking to him. He wished she knew that he forgave her. He wished that he could reach out and touch her, give her soothing comfort that she needed. But there was someone else. A tall, dark haired man with kind, blue eyes. He looked like SuperMan. And Austin couldn't help but admire the new man. He had been everything Austin wasn't. Given her everything Austin didn't.