Well, they didn't quite say no. More of an "I don't know, I've got some study to catch up on." Feel that pain right between your stomach and your heart. No, that's indigestion. This is a bit higher. Yep, there it is.

Ladies and gentlemen, that is unrequited love. The agony of it is that you didn't realise just how much you needed them until they put themselves firmly out of reach.

Unrequited love is, simply put, the illusion we grant ourselves as a reward for rejection. Huh? Reward? Unrequited love is the understanding that you need someone almost as badly as life itself, and even when they say 'no', you still need them just as much.

Unrequited love is the final knowledge that even in your emptiness you have reached for someone, and maybe, just maybe, have made their life better because of it.

On the other end of the phone line, they may be crying, they may be snickering, they may be screaming, but, somewhere, deep inside them, they are smiling with contentment.

And if that is not the most beautiful thing in the Universe then I am at a loss for what is. God bless you for caring for someone.