“A thousand miles seems pretty far
              But they’ve got planes and trains and cars
              I’d walk to you if I had no other way”- Plain White Tee’s, Hey There Delilah            With my music blaring from my I-pod, I continued to get around.  Today was the day Nick was moving back to Queens.  I pressed repeat so I could listen to Hey There Delilah again, it seemed to describe my situation perfectly.  I dreaded having to say goodbye to him.  I’d liked Nick all through high school, and sat by him every day in homeroom for three years.  I told him everything he was basically my best friend.            As my brother drove me to his house, in my tiny Yaris, I could hear the CD he made me coming out of the speakers of my car.  Was everything going to remind me of him?  When I got to his house he hugged me, and the strong scent of his cologne hit my nose.  I loved that smell, it was perfect for him.  Strong and powerful, it made my knees weak to think I wouldn’t be able to smell it on him anymore.  I took another big inhale before we let go of one another, and he kissed me on my forehead.            How could this ever work I wondered, with him being so far away.   I climbed into the passenger seat of his car.  The familiar smell of his Burberry Cologne hit my nostrils again. I knew he kept a bottle in his glove compartment.  I opened it up and grabbed the big black bottle. The smell instantly filled the car.  I saw him smile.  He knew I loved that smell.  But, I’d never told him how much I loved it, or how a whiff of it makes my legs weak.  I wanted to cry.            Nick took me to get snack wraps, at McDonald’s.  They always remind me of him.  We had to be the only couple on the face of the planet that would spend their last hours together eating snack wraps.  But, that’s the kind of things we did.  As we sat in his kitchen eating neither of us talked at all.  There wasn’t much to say, when all you would be doing for the next year would be talking over the phone.            We sat in his living room together and watch sports center, his scent was all over me as I lay there I never wanted this to end.  I watched the clock as every minute ticked by.  He was leaving me and I didn’t know what to do.  I had loved him for so long, and now that he was finally mine he was leaving.  I hated the thought of losing him.              As he drove me home, I noticed he drove slower than usual, I was glad.  I wanted this to last forever.  We held hands the whole way to my house.  I didn’t want to get out because I knew that was the end the last I would see of him, until God only knew when.  He leaned over and hugged me.  The smell of Burberry hit me before I knew what to do.  This was goodbye, he kissed me and I climbed out.  The tears didn’t start to pour until I walked through the front door. I walked directly to my room and dove on the bed burring my head into a pillow.  His scent lingered on me I didn’t want it to ever leave.  With two honks of the horn he was gone.            All that was left was his lingering scent on my clothes that I knew would, fade with time.  His scent brought back so many memories.  I could almost picture us at prom, sitting at basketball games together, watching movies at his house, and riding around in his Jeep.  This scent meant more to me, then the lyrics to some song.  The smell didn’t only explain my situation but brought back every memory of Nick I had.  I wanted to smell this strong Burberry forever, and sometimes even though he’s not around I can almost smell it when I think of him.