A/N: Post season 2, pre season 3, the day Jim leaves Scranton, respective thoughts of Pam and Jim.
Disclaimers: I don't own the office, however I wish I did. Lyrics in italics are from the song Boston by Augustana. It's a great song that was inspiration for this fan fic, so I thought I'd add lyrics in.
"You don't know me, you don't wear my chains"
Jim is leaving for Stamford today, she though to her self. She just didn't know what to do, and no one could help her. Even her Mom was at a loss for words, telling her to 'follow her heart', Pam had always relied on Jim to help her make these kind of choices, but now she couldn't and that scared her.
"There not the only one's who cry when they see you."
Bye Scranton. Jim thought to himself as he pulled out of his driveway. Boxes in the back he was ready to move on. He thought of her, how she should get out. How he couldn't stand to see them together anymore, how he had moved for her, so that she could be happy.
"O dear you look so low, eyes are red and tears are shed"
Pam couldn't stop thinking about him. How she broke him, and how he cried for her. She'd never seen him cry for anything, but he cried for her, and she'd cried for him, only he would never know that.
"I think I need a new town to leave all this behind."
Jim was leaving to leave Pam. He told every one else, and him self that it was the better job, but really it was because he couldn't sit there and watch her be happy with him. He couldn't let her be with the wrong guy, but that's what she wanted, so left so she could have it.
"I think I need a sunrise, I'm tired of sunsets"
They where tired of their routines. Jim was tired of getting his heart broken again and again by her, and she was tired of being with Roy. They where tired of not being with each other, and at the same time they reached for their phones, to call each other, to say they where sorry. But at the same time they put them down, because all one wanted was for the other to be happy.