An old friend…
This was a nostalgic weekend.
Saturday while I was going out for a walk in the afternoon I saw an old friend which I haven’t seen for about 2 years.
Our story is awkward, we met near the Tagus River and I went to talk to her, she was sitting alone looking at the river and I wondered why would a pretty girl like her be there alone at 3am and so we started talking and we stayed together that night, eventually we went to a beach at 7am and stayed there until lunch time when we both decided it was time to go home. We both felt something special going on, not in a flirty way, but that connecting people have, we just had the same ideals and goals. We both agreed that we wouldn’t change contacts, that when we wanted to see each other we would go the place we first met and way for the other person to, hopefully, show up… And so we did that every week, once a week during the whole summer.
When summer was over we had to break hour meetings but occasionally we would see each other and leave notes writen with a waterproof marker seeting a date with each other but someday she wrote “I’m sorry, I can’t see you anymore…” and that was the last time I had news from her. I would go to the same place every week waiting for a new message but without luck and eventually I stoped going there and moved on.
So Saturday there we were right in front of each other, she was with her friends so I didn’t really know how to react, until she stoped when she saw me, we must have stand there and looked at each other for 10 secunds that seemed more like 1 minute and then she huged me .
- “I missed you…”
- “Then why did you stop seeing me? How come you never wrote me any message?”
- “I’m sorry, I felt I was getting too attached to you and I got scared, I spent 1 year traveling around Europe but I could never find someone like you”
- “Why are you telling me?”
- “Because I really missed you…”
- “So, what now?”
- “I don’t know, I understand if you don’t want to see me again but… I’d really like to see you again”
- “10pm, same place, tonight”
- “thank you”
