The Illusion - Page 3

With the beams of my car shut-off I now realize how dark it is. I can’t see who it is, or exactly where the gate-keeper was… But the person standing in the gateway was slender and the corners of the silhouettes’ body were flowing… Like flapping material wrapped around a skinny figure… Just 19, and still with a presence that isn’t easily forgotten… It was her of course… The body structure told it all… Even the expression that was probably on her face… A look darting between worry and calm admiration… She found me in the dark, far more quickly than I had expected her to… The moonlight began to light the night more prominently as my eyes adjusted to the environment. She moved out of the passage… Walked closer… She stopped directly in front of me... Too close for socially appropriate situations… It didn’t make sense, she wasn’t bothered by the gate-keeper who was probably watching… But she was always so careful in front of people. She didn’t care? Before my mind could wander on any more, she reached a little out and touched my face… And said: hi…

Her voice was milky… It gave me a deep feeling of her having some amount of longing for me… I was euphoric… I think… More lost in translation between what was happening with the universe and my body to give me this moment of connection with her… It was definitely a dream… Her touch was gentle and warm… Clasping the left side of my jaw in a warm cushion… I opened my mouth slightly… To some part, afraid that my saying anything would drive this miracle of a feeling away… But nothing came out anyway… I could see her eyes looking just a little up, at mine. I looked into her wide gaze and felt slightly intimidated… It seemed to hold me strongly and, in the deep, comfortingly… I closed my mouth and smiled… She let out a small cough of pleasure and smiled too… My grin grew larger, after which I felt silly and looked down momentarily. I looked up again, into her calm stare, and said: hi… I missed you…

I could’ve spent all night right there in my euphoria bubble, standing next to her in the cool breeze … But I realized that a more important task lay ahead. So I grasped her right hand and moved it away from my cheek, and guided it like a small nudge, toward my car. And I said, Let’s go? To which she nodded gently and smiled, and walked across to the other side of my car. I walked to the driver’s side, and got in just a few seconds after she did. I couldn’t believe tonight was actually happening! And with someone like me!? What does she see in me? She’s such a fool… Maybe she’ll end all this once she gets bored, or one of her other friends wins the “date an ugly moron” bet. Ah I could think of a hundred reasons for her not to be with someone like me… It seemed too perfect… She was too perfect for me… Even if she broke my heart with whatever experiment she was trying or whatever joke she was playing on me, I’d still make her as happy as I could… She deserved it.

The car had felt uncomfortably cold on my journey here but just a few seconds with her already made it so much more welcoming. I robotically put the key in, switched on the lights and started out onto the road, all the while looking at her. She was watching me too, but turned her gaze toward the road. That’s right, I was being reckless… The road, THE ROAD…! I was so easily distracted because of her. Her beauty was both cute and mesmerizing, at the least, but I stared at her so much because of who she was; her aura was always pulsing out to me like it was a beacon for me. I quickly, but unwillingly looked forward as well.