Between two parallels

It's been nearly 6 months since Delores and I have been in contact again.
It's been nearly 6 months since I started screwing around on Facebook.

There was an immediate parallel that surfaced.
And another that showed up at work a few weeks later.

Parallel A:
A guy I grew up with was VERY obviously reconnected with his high school girlfriend. In fact, he was the first person to comment on my "OG is divorced" status. It was, and is, all over Facebook. They were not trying to hide it, but announce it to the world.
17 years they had been separated. He was divorced, she was going through one. They are convinced that they are soul mates. She has visited him, he has visited her, and they have both made a special trip back here together for mini-reunion of sorts. They live 2000 miles apart and the closest one, Him, lives 5 states away from where we grew up. She shares the same name as Delores. He is interviewing for jobs where she lives so that she doesn't have to pack up and relocate her three kids. They are going to end up together. It's obvious. Shit, they ARE together and everyone knows it.

Parallel B:

Guy at work I have known for 20 years got involved with a young lady on my sales team. She had broken up with her long term boyfriend shortly before I started working there. They have a child together about the same age as my little girl. I didn't know until a few months ago that my friend and her were involved at all. She went back to the boyfriend.
It's killing him. He is so wrapped up in her that it's all he can talk about. He puts his heartfelt emotions all over Facebook. He's heartbroken pretty bad by it and everyone knows. To make it worse, she was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple months ago and started chemo last month; she's in her early 30's and the tumor was detected not as early as you would want. He has tried to help in every way he could including raising money to help with treatment. She is not coming back to him. I don't think that there was a chance she would anyway.
He gave up last night. He quit.

Two very similar stories; One has (or is going to have) the fairy tale happy ending of two soul mates who have transcended time and space to be together. They will be very happy, trust me, they are meant for each other.
The other, heartbreak and a crushed man who kept holding on to a woman that didn't share the same feelings that he did. And is now in a battle for life at a young age. She is, and needs, to concentrate on what is most important; her child. Making those kinds of memories that that little girl will remember for ever. Making sure that she is taken care of if the worst happens. I wish that he would understand that this is her perspective now. Not that she doesn't care about him, but that her priorities have had to change dramatically. If he wants to win her back...he needs to play his cards differently.

Here I am, right between these two. Two people who have transcended time and space to have our souls reconnect. One divorce, one marriage in purgatory. One man waiting, one woman trying to decide what it is that she wants. A battle for her heart with some unfair advantages to the competitor.
The previous two outcomes are decided.
Mine is not. And our story is not all over FB for our friends to see. It's only here.
And all I can do is wait