• She laughed as she tossed her hair. It's an immunization right down to the point.

    He looked at her blandly. Was that supposed to be a pun?

    Oh, what a wonderful pun, she said and smiled.



    ***


    Two years ago she was in the same exact spot as she is now. As hard as she tried she could never get away from her boring life. As hard as she tried she could never break away from the same routine. She spent all her life wishing for something more than school, work, school, work. She never did anything different. She never learned that wishing doesn't get you anywhere. At least not until she met him.


    ***


    He noticed her humor changed as the weeks went by.

    All I ever wanted was you, she whispered in his ear.

    The way she talked became more poetic, more broken, more hopeless.


    ***


    Her work had become sloppy, but she thinks she couldn't care less because she is enjoying life. To her, she can appreciate everything. Even the moon appears different now. She looks out at the sun rise and sighs, wishing again, but for something different.


    ***

    This night will not last forever, she sighed.

    He looked up, his head still in her lap as she ran her fingers through his hair. Does it matter that much?

    Yes.

    Why?

    She glanced up to the glimmering moon, a cloud sliding across the sky. Because I'm finally happy.


    ***


    Clingy-ness isn't her downfall, she says. She just gets to attached too soon. She tries to let him go, but she always wants to be with him. She thinks she is being too much of a girl and she smiles. She can even find happiness in that now.


    ***


    What a momentous occasion, he cried and took her into his arms. How could life get any better?

    She found it hard to keep tears from welling up in her eyes.


    ***


    She knows she has to let go soon. She would rather it be sooner than later. She isn't in love with him; she doesn't believe in such a human emotion. Never a number seems a bit far fetched to her now though, since she knows she is no more than a very large, very insignificant one. And he seems like a seven. She comes to the conclusion it only seems that way because of how she sees herself and how he really is. He is a planet amongst stars.


    ***


    It's not that hard to see the beauty in life anymore.

    That's funny because life itself really sucks, he said.

    I'm trying to make the good out of the bad, instead of the bad out of the good.

    What a change.


    ***


    She always thought she was too poetic for this world. Once she met him, she wasn't so sure anymore. He isn't a poet. He doesn't write. He is just logical and logic seems take the beauty out of her words. She thinks he'll laugh at what she has to say to him and she has always wanted to say that he is like the exhale after an orgasm.


    ***


    They both breathed out heavily. Her hands were still entwined in his sweaty shirt.

    He leaned in to kiss her. As their lips met, she closed her eyes gracefully, softly pressing her face to his.

    His kisses were always so soft and gentle at this point.

    He made her feel wonderful.


    ***


    She is coming to ask herself whether she has to actually give him up. The world seems to agree with her so well right now. It might make everything tumble apart if he leaves, but then she starts to ask herself, is this love? And she is frustrated.


    ***


    You don't make any sense, he replied.

    I don't want to make sense, she retorted. I don't want you to pin me down.

    It's not a bad thing.

    It's me giving up me.


    ***


    She cries too much and it's always over such silly things. Lately she has only been crying at night. She misses her old friend. The friend that he took the place of, but she feels no remorse over it. That old friend only makes her feel worse about herself. Her new one makes her feel like rays of sunlight bursting through the clouds of the sunset.


    ***


    He kissed her hand when she laid it on top of his.

    I need to go, she said.

    He nodded. She was sad when he gave no rejection.


    ***


    The days bare on and she feels that their time is drawing to a close. It is sad because she thinks that it is only just beginning. She tries to make it work but her pride gets in the way too often. She ends up calling him even when she knows he won't answer just for closure. It is too bad she doesn't know that it is closure she is so far from getting, so she puts her fears aside and tells him what she wants too. She hopes his logic will not get in the way of him hearing something beautiful.