No - he gets an epiphany

I spent my college days alone - I had no intention or desire of getting into another relationship, Amy or no Amy.

Then, when I woke up one Tuesday morning to go to my first class, I groggily noticed that something was very odd in my dorm. There was nobody in the hallway, no talking coming from the rooms - the place was unnaturally deserted, and it wasn't even that early in the morning. I wandered the empty halls, eventually coming across an open dorm room and saw what was on TV:

Smoke rising out of the World Trade Center.

I know I don’t need to recount the events of that day for anyone, but I have to at least mention it because the moment I saw that image of the towers, I felt like lightning had struck me. I ran back to my room, and before I knew what I was doing I was dialing Amy's number. I don’t know what came over me, it just seemed like the natural thing to do.

We hadn’t spoken since the last phone call. As far as I knew she was still juggling her courses and athletics. It didn't matter to me if she moved on where I hadn't. It didn't matter what she was doing or feeling - I had to hear her voice. Each ringtone echo reverberated in my ears like the footsteps of a giant, meshing with my trembling heartbeat.

And then she picked up the phone.

“Ian?”

“I’m still in love with you,” I blurted out. “I don't know what happened between us. I don't care what anyone else says. I don't care what happens to us after this. I never stopped loving you. I don’t think I ever will. You don’t have to say anything, if you don’t want to. I just - I needed to tell you.”

There was a long, awful pause on the line as my words sunk in. Then:

“Ian... what took you so long?” she sniffed. "Do you know what it's been like, not being able to hear from you? I was so scared, thinking that everyone had left me behind when I wasn't looking... and when you didn't call me, I feared that - that you had gone on without me! That you became tired of me! I couldn't even spend a day without thinking about you - how I _missed _you - how much of an idiot both of us were being - "

"Amy..."

And then she spoke the words I had longed to hear for over a year.

"I love you too, you fucking moron!"