Brokenhearted track star

Ive always wished for a summer romance and now I wish I hadnt. See I run on an AAU track team and this year our coach happened to be an 18 year old guy named jake. I knew jake because we had trained in the past together for track on a club team. We started the season off just flirting innocently but one month into summer I started to feel things for him. The more I was around him, the more I realized how much I wanted to be with him. Rumors spread that he liked another person our team though, so I immediately tried to lay off. But just couldn’t stop feeling things for him, as much as I denied it to myself. After the season closed, I texted him one night, asking him to meet me at the track. After talking for hours, we admitted to having liked each other during the season. Now he’s leaving for college and my heart is in pain because i feel I missed out on what could have been an amazing romance.