You Just Never Know

It's so weird how attached you become to people and not even know it, until you get a call and are told that that person, whom you thought you would be spending time with is leaving. Their job or their country has called them and they are leaving right away. They were taken home to pack and are supposed to report to leave at 9pm and the phone call you got was at 8:05. So many things run through your head: like when are they coming back, you wont get to kiss them good-bye, the reservations for the weekend will have to be cancelled, whatif something happens and that person doesn't come back, when will you talk again, and on and on. It is so crazy and so hectic and all you want to do is hold that person and not let them go until you are ready, not until you kiss them one last time, not until you tell that person you love will you let go. But you wont have that opportunity because you weren't home when they got there, so you suck it up and tell them you'll miss them and to be safe and to keep warm and to kick butt and then you say good-bye and then you hang up, wiping the tears away from your eyes.
You don't know what will happen in the next couple of days, weeks, and months, but that person is constantly in your thoughts, in your prayers, and on your mind. Which seems to tell me that these people mean a whole lot more than you might have thought.