Holy shit snacks, is she for real ! Since he strated crying out of the blue i get that she forgot what she was gonna say, but I dunno maybe he would have stopped then and there if you told him it was just for 2 weeks.
Jesus, it takes me back : in Junior High, I had the same thing happen to me, the girl I loved told me she was leaving and I was a mess, an alerting the whole house and crying in my mother's arms kind of mess. The little fucker was just leaving for vacation, to ski !!