How can it come to this, that one person flees from another?
How can one be so afraid of a person?
Or is it rather the fear of oneself that drives a person to flee from another, since one person often serves as a mirror for another?
fear of becoming even more attached to this person—especially when neither of them is free. And so, running away is the only solution found to avoid seeing this person and not stirring up feelings… forbidden or impossible.
… while the reason is the simplest of all: to live a love story?
Moral of the story: love is one of the few rare values in life and could be simpler to live by at times.