Encounter
The tough day has finished. Everything I want to do now, is to lie down, to take a book and to read. I started to think about the content of it, can I comprehend it?
The sky is grey and the clock is showing almost three, it seems more though, seems like evening actually. Snowflakes are twirling in a soft but very cold wind, I like it, even though it’s very cold.
I’m at the parking place where only my car is parked, all around is emptiness. I think that’s strange, on another day and at the same time, this parking place would be totally full.
I drop those thoughts, as rage has arisen in me, because the car’s lock has failed again. Just in the moment, when my thoughts are the darkest, I see someone is approaching, and all the anger has melted away. I breath in and turn around, raise my head up to see the face of the person standing near me; it’s a girl, her face is pretty and so familiar, I know her but as usually I don’t know from where.
I recognize her in a moment, when she in question say my name. Actually, I more than just recognize her - the whole past, all moments we spent together flash in front of my eyes. I can’t understand why I haven’t recognized her at once.
“It’s seven years since that”, she just ended the summary of our last meeting, as we’re walking towards a Caffè. All the moments I spent with her, are now so alive in my mind, and I actually can’t believe so much time has passed.
The caffè is really nice, it’s warm and cosy and we’re almost alone in it. We’re sitting facing each other, and I can finally really look into her face. She has changed, but yet she’s the same. I realize that she has green eyes, and I wonder if I always knew that, or have I realized it just now.
I withdraw my look, and direct it through the window, where the passing car has just drawn a silhouette of an old man, which is hardly moving alone though the wind and snow. I look at her again, and now I see the smile on her face, the reason of which, I can’t explain to myself. After some moments her smile has faded away, I want to see it again so I try to smile, and I hope she’ll reflect it.
I have no idea how much time has passed, maybe an hour or two, or maybe even more? It’s completely dark outside. When I want to look through the window, I can see only clear reflection of myself and her in it. I try to understand the beauty of being, which is sitting in front of me. We were walking on similar paths, we were making similar decisions, and we believed and still do in similar things. We both see life through the same eyes: stars and mornings, snowflakes, warm tea, day dreaming, autumn leaves whirling in soft wind, fog colored by the light of the sunrise, life and love. All those magical things.
I’m not aware of time anymore, we’re outside now, the wind is blowing stronger, it has stopped snowing and the sky has cleared up. I don’t feel cold, as we’re standing in front of each other and saying goodbye. We’re looking into each others’ eyes, and we’re waiting for something to happen.
It was just couple of seconds maybe, though it seemed like an eternity.
Now I’m in the car, which stared moving slowly. In my thoughts it’s sill her last smile, and for a moment I feel like I’m not alone. The world starts to melt away, night lights, stars and the moon, they all merge into one, like they’d always be one.
