David is talking on the phone to his friend, Jay. Jay asks what happened when Melissa left.
"She grabs her magazines, she packs her things and she goes..." David starts, sighing.
"She leaves the pictures hanging on the wall," he adds, looking at the pictures of the couple during happier times that
were on almost every wall.
"She burns all her notes and she knows, she’s been here too few years to feel this old.." David finishes, breaking down.
A little while later, David goes out onto his backstep. His roommate, Kevin, watches him while he is talking to Jay.
"What's David doing now?" Jay asks Kevin.
"He smokes his cigarette, he stays outside 'till it’s gone." Kevin responds.
"If anybody ever had a heart, he wouldn’t be alone..." Jay muses.
"He knows, she’s been here too few years, to be gone." Kevin answers back, watching David through the window.
Meanwhile, Melissa is on a train heading east. She glances down at her growing stomach, and finishes the letter she has been writing to David.
"And we always say, it would be good to go away, someday but if there’s nothing there to make things change if it’s the same for you I’ll just hang" she writes. "I'll call you when I get to my parents. Love, Melissa."
"The trouble understand, is she got reasons he don’t," Jay says over the phone.
"Funny how he couldn’t see at all, 'til she grabbed up her coat and she goes," agrees Kevin.
"She’s been here too few years to take it all in stride but still it’s much too long, to let hurt go," Jay replies.
"You let her go," Kevin whispers to David, knowing full well he couldn't hear him.
"What?" asks Jay.
"Nothing," says Kevin.
A few days later...
"And we always say, it would be good to go away, someday but if there’s nothing there to make things change if it’s the same for you I’ll just hang," David reads the letter Melissa wrote out loud. He silently curses himself, and everything that he did that led up to her leaving him.
"The same for you I’ll always hang well I always say, it would be good to go away..." David says that night as he looked up at the sky. "But if things don’t work out like we think and there’s nothing there to ease this ache but if there’s nothing there to make things change if it’s the same for you," David sighs. "I’ll just...hang."