13. Heads or tails, you lose ; Dice ; Ace

She finds him still standing in the graveyard hours later. His suit is black from the rain. His shoulders are hunched and he is staring resolutely at the fresh grave and bright flowers even though he knows she's there. His eyes are probably red behind his glasses.

Eventually, he moves past her and away (always away), back to a cold and lonely little apartment full of a million small reminders. She doesn't think that he looks at her even once.

A glint catches her eye. She turns.

When she sees the discarded wedding band sitting atop the headstone, she does something that she's told herself she'd never do again when faced with a situation she knows she can't change, no matter how much she dreams and hopes and wishes. No matter how much her heart breaks.

She cries.