The door shut behind him, and Padma stood there a moment, torn between running after him to beg him not to leave and hoping that he would come back in on his own and say he didn't want to leave her. After a few moments, Padma realized that he was really gone, that he had really left her... that he wasn't going to even try.
Padma closed her hand around the heart necklace that he had given her, intent on yanking it off... but she couldn't do it. Instead, clutching the simple, beautiful heart, she sat down on her couch and cried.