Beep! And so some reply comes
A call for company returned...
finally.
After you've cried your tears,
and contemplated reality,
your cell phone goes... beep!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Dinner and a fool
"So, ...." an uncomfortable pause followed. They were at a restaurant eating dinner, they laughed and talked and were having this really amazing conversation when it suddenly petered down into nothing. She sat directly under the lights and some of her face was in shadow, the most alluring according to him were the ones her eyelashes made on her cheeks. They seemed to give her an aura of mystery and seductiveness. It just made her so appealing. He wanted to reach out across the table and touch her cheek., tuck that troublesome lock behind her ear and look in her eyes. He wanted to have one of those moments with her where the silences said so much more than the words.
It was in this contemplative silence that her mellow voice broke in with a "So,..." for her part she was just plain freaked out. He was looking at her like he could eat her alive. It was having a very detrimental effect on her communicative ability. He should really learn some subtlety. This wouldn't work at all. She wanted to say something but all she could manage was a croaky "So,..." bloody embarrassing that!
They sat, cutlery abandoned, food forgotten just looking at or away from each other. Thinking things that should have been thought of in a friendship that was as old as god-knows-what. She decided to risk it then, to go ahead and say the words that for so long had converted her brains to maggi.
She drank some water, to smooth her throat, and began again a bit more assuredly. "I won't skirt the issue any longer than I have to. I think I am in love with you."
She should have called him out and bludgeoned him with a goddamn sledgehammer for all the prelude to that conversation. All he had to do was call and text her more often than he did in the past 15 years of knowing her and she said she "thought" she was in love with him. For so long he thought she was not like the other women he knew, but she seemed to know the exact words to throw at him to prove that she was like the others. Damn it all to hell and back and then to nonexistent Pluto and further on to other galaxies and universes!!! He was upset, he was angry, he was losing one of his lifes most cheerful parts to sentimentality and it would take him a 150 years to get over this one.
He didn't want to prolong her agony, for confessing such profound feelings and anticipating a response must be agony. He kept looking at her trying to figure out how to put in words all of his disappointment and anger. He decided to be blunt too, he took his card out asked for the check and told her. "Arushi, I'm upset. I didn't think you'd do this to me. You're not in love, you just think you are. I would suggest you get over it, find a man who will keep you happy. I don't think I am that man. Give me a call when you are a little more rational."
He signed the bill, took his card, got up and walked out. And that is how the love of her life made the first stupid mistake in their relationship. Because when she walked out of the restaurant she walked straight into the most idiotic man she had the pleasure of being acquainted with.
It was in this contemplative silence that her mellow voice broke in with a "So,..." for her part she was just plain freaked out. He was looking at her like he could eat her alive. It was having a very detrimental effect on her communicative ability. He should really learn some subtlety. This wouldn't work at all. She wanted to say something but all she could manage was a croaky "So,..." bloody embarrassing that!
They sat, cutlery abandoned, food forgotten just looking at or away from each other. Thinking things that should have been thought of in a friendship that was as old as god-knows-what. She decided to risk it then, to go ahead and say the words that for so long had converted her brains to maggi.
She drank some water, to smooth her throat, and began again a bit more assuredly. "I won't skirt the issue any longer than I have to. I think I am in love with you."
She should have called him out and bludgeoned him with a goddamn sledgehammer for all the prelude to that conversation. All he had to do was call and text her more often than he did in the past 15 years of knowing her and she said she "thought" she was in love with him. For so long he thought she was not like the other women he knew, but she seemed to know the exact words to throw at him to prove that she was like the others. Damn it all to hell and back and then to nonexistent Pluto and further on to other galaxies and universes!!! He was upset, he was angry, he was losing one of his lifes most cheerful parts to sentimentality and it would take him a 150 years to get over this one.
He didn't want to prolong her agony, for confessing such profound feelings and anticipating a response must be agony. He kept looking at her trying to figure out how to put in words all of his disappointment and anger. He decided to be blunt too, he took his card out asked for the check and told her. "Arushi, I'm upset. I didn't think you'd do this to me. You're not in love, you just think you are. I would suggest you get over it, find a man who will keep you happy. I don't think I am that man. Give me a call when you are a little more rational."
He signed the bill, took his card, got up and walked out. And that is how the love of her life made the first stupid mistake in their relationship. Because when she walked out of the restaurant she walked straight into the most idiotic man she had the pleasure of being acquainted with.
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