She cries and sleeps little and barely eats. It's inevitable. And when it all becomes too much – too painful and too tiresome all at the same time – she finds that he's there to help her along. So he buys her ice cream on weekends and makes silly jokes and takes her to practice with her new Chaser gloves. And at summer's end, when he tells her that he loves her, she realizes that while she'll never truly be whole again, he has managed to bring together all the scattered pieces of her heart and for that, she'll love him forever.