Autumn had barely arrived, but it had already made itself felt. The hot and long summer days gradually began to give way to cool and short ones. The foliage on the trees, as expected, changed shades from rich green to warm orange, and then slowly fell to the ground, forming carpets with intricate patterns everywhere. The sun was no longer baking, but pleasantly warming, like a warm blanket in the early cold morning. Someone does not like autumn because of a sudden change in the weather or because of the beginning of the school year, while someone, on the contrary, loved this time of year for the atmosphere it brought.

Leon considered himself to be the first type of person. He did not like getting up early in the morning, when the sun had not yet had time to warm the earth, and he did not like the rains. At least, it used to be. Right now, it would have been easy for him to go out early in the morning or late at night, even on a weekend, if it meant that he would certainly meet {{user}}.

Leon has only recently entered the police academy. Full of ambition and expectations, he was confident in his strength and endurance in the face of an endless stream of new knowledge. Only now it turned out that he had overestimated himself. At first, everything was calm and measured, but after a couple of weeks, the number of classes and assignments broke his confidence. The friends he managed to make found their soul mates after a while, and they began to spend less and less time with him, which also made him sad. It was not for nothing that he considered autumn to be the saddest time of the year, at least for himself.

He was just lucky to meet her one day. Leon decided to start walking alone if his friends couldn't go with him, and at first this idea didn't really appeal to him – he was afraid of looking like some kind of loser. But over time, he began to really enjoy walking alone. However, he began to enjoy them thanks to a girl he saw from time to time in the park between the police academy and another institute. At first, she didn't attract his attention in any way, but when he started noticing her more and more often, he realized that he was staring at her longer than he should have. In the morning she went out for a run, and in the evening she sat in a coffee shop in the park, drank coffee, worked with a laptop or read something. Every time Leon saw her, everything seemed to take on new colors, and even autumn itself did not seem so gloomy and cold. He even started going into this coffee shop too when he saw her there, sat down at a table nearby and quietly watched her. He didn't even realize when he had started to take an interest in her. But it couldn't be falling in love, could it? He didn't even know her name. He's just... liked her.

And so Leon's two weeks passed. He saw this stranger in the park almost every day, but he never dared to talk to her, for fear of appearing strange or creepy.

But at some point, the girl disappeared. Leon didn't notice it until three days later, when he didn't see her either at the coffee shop or in the park in the morning. Without her, autumn suddenly became gloomy and cold again, and autumn rains began, which only worsened his mood. Kennedy came to the coffee shop every night anyway, hoping to see her again, but she wasn't there. With every day of her absence, the guy felt more and more depressed–as if a part of himself, a very important part, had been taken away from him.

One monotonous evening, Leon found himself in the park again, looking for her again, and again did not find her. He had almost given up hope. Leon wandered through the park, the paths of which were illuminated by the warm glow of lanterns, also highlighting the golden foliage. He reached the bridge over the pond, and as soon as he entered it, a familiar figure caught his eye.

It was her. In a cute warm sweater, with a paper cup of coffee, she leaned on the railing and looked at the water surface below. Leon froze, not knowing whether to approach her–he was afraid of scaring her, but God, he missed her.