An End With No Beginning

Break your own heart in three short months using this one weird trick!

When I looked at the ground, I could see the shadow of the descending boulder growing larger. At first I could pretend the small dark circle was cast by me alone, but before long I could not mistake the expanding umbra for anything but the inevitable: a boulder from the blue which would destroy me if Theo remained undecided.

There was no preventing the crush.