I looked at her go. That's how I would describe what I was feeling that moment.

  I just looked as she got away from me, further and further away, slowly becoming unreachable.

  Physically, she was still next to me, she hadn't even moved. Yet, I felt like we were worlds apart.

  A few words is all it takes sometimes to change everything.

  They say words can hurt, and yes, they can, they can hurt just like a knife through the heart, but that's not the worst words can do.

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  You can still react to pain.

  No, the worst words can do is leave you empty, unable to act, unable to react, unable to reach what you thought was yours just moments before.

  And so I looked at her, her saddened face showing a hint of relief, as if a weight had been removed from her.

  Maybe it wasn't sadness, nor relief, maybe it was a deep feeling of nostalgia, nostalgia for something that was just moments before and now felt far away.

  I looked at her, she who had been so close to me, she who was now just one of many distant acquaintances, destined to cold greetings and false pleasantries.

  As those feelings of emptiness and distance assailed me, I said goodbye to what we were.