This was turning out into a productive afternoon she thought as she looked up from her papers around the piazza which was lazily busy with the usual tourists enjoying a drink in the late afternoon sun.
She felt a prickle of consciousness as she looked around and found the cause as her gaze settled upon the long form of a man leaning against a pillar across the street. As their eyes met she realized that he had been watching for sometime now and was waiting to look into her eyes.
The instant pleasure in the subconscious of finding someone fascinated with her quickly underwent a morph from pleasure to annoyance at the assured arrogance to pleasant surprise at the constancy and depth of the glance. She was amused at her own predictability. He seemed to register the shift in emotion as imperceptibly as the change in her expression had been, leaving him amused also.
The moment stretched as they looked out the windows of their souls leaving a little crack open for the other to peek in for that fraction of time.
As she explored what lay beneath the cool façade she was reminded of another such lazy afternoon eons ago. The memories of ‘flash and burn’ bought back a kaleidoscope of images and emotions fanning embers that she thought lay dormant. But he seemed a veteran, wearing his scars well and unfazed by what he found though the chinks in her façade. The wry grin and open expression spoke volumes of the past and the possibilities.
As the visual exchange bordered on eternity a sudden quick breeze blew across the piazza taking her papers with it.
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4 comments:
was wondering if i was able to achieve what i set out to do. thank u fizz :)
I guess you did Reshmi. Fewer adjectives and shorter sentences would make your next post better. Keep going!
SO beautifully expressive ... the shift of emotions!
Linked in here from DSS ... good job!
what can i say josh, i have a weakness for adjectives :P
thanks for stopping by.
hey ashu - thanks! :)
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