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- May 25, 2025
- Messages
- 14
It started in the way stories sometimes begin not with thunder but with a glance, a timing, a pulse neither voice nor logic could fully name.
We met at a bus stop first. A mundane, humdrum place. But even city concrete can feel sacred when the right presence arrives. She had the aura of someone mid-transition, a woman finishing her MBA, still with the softness of her early twenties, yet already tasting the gravity of what comes after.
There was a subtle nervous excitement in her posture then. Like someone who doesn’t yet know they’ve stepped into a new chapter, but feels the air shift anyway.
Conversations spark quickly when two people recognize each other before they understand each other.
That’s what happened: a recognition.
We flirted and exchanged numbers, eventually texting to set up a date.
And so we found ourselves at the cinema that night.
She mentioned she used to dance, a “wannabe ballerina,” she said, laughing lightly, half-self-mockery, half-secret pride. Beautiful thing, that mixture. Grace that never fully leaves the body. Discipline disguised as softness.
I spoke of my writing: poems, stories, worlds stitched in silence.
Two arts facing each other quietly: body and word; movement and thought.
We sat close. Not as strangers but as two people testing the warmth between them like one tests the edge of a flame: careful, curious, wanting the heat.
The theater dimmed.
Silence became a language.
I kissed her the way slow scenes demand, so neither hungry, nor hesitant, but deliberate, as if time would stretch for us. Her breath changed; her shoulders loosened; she leaned in like she’d been waiting to exhale.
After, we left without naming anything. Naming kills magic too early. Better to let things hover. Suspended. Half dream, half intention.
Later, she confessed that she thought I wouldn't come. That small ache she tried to hid (that tiny wound of “maybe he won’t”) revealed more than any longo speech could.
For a brief moment, she imagined abandonment; the old fear women who feel deeply know too well.
And then relief washed in when I arrived.
Care disguised as nonchalance and I saw it.
And yet she kept her composure.
Women like her do.
Pride and longing can coexist in fragile harmony.
I tried to pull her home but she resisted and i respected that.
Later on, she texted If i had arrived safe and sound so i joked that she would feel safe and sound with me, to which she replied that tomorrow that could be true. Then we sent our goodnights.
An invitation disguised as a joke.
A door barely cracked, but undeniably open.
A soft test of closeness.
She asked if I arrived safely.
Not habit, but emotion.
Women don’t check on men they don’t feel.
She is curious.
A little unsteady in her newfound attraction.
Half-logical MBA, half-dreaming girl emerging into womanhood.
Drawn to the calm she sees in me and to the quiet certainty that doesn’t rush.
We kissed as if we already knew.
We parted as if we’d see each other again without needing to promise it.
No claims, no boasts.
Just energy suspended in the air between us, still warm from the touch.
The story breathes.
Good stories always do.
And we will continue this one
not because we force it,
but because neither of us quite wants to step out of the frame yet.
We met at a bus stop first. A mundane, humdrum place. But even city concrete can feel sacred when the right presence arrives. She had the aura of someone mid-transition, a woman finishing her MBA, still with the softness of her early twenties, yet already tasting the gravity of what comes after.
There was a subtle nervous excitement in her posture then. Like someone who doesn’t yet know they’ve stepped into a new chapter, but feels the air shift anyway.
Conversations spark quickly when two people recognize each other before they understand each other.
That’s what happened: a recognition.
We flirted and exchanged numbers, eventually texting to set up a date.
And so we found ourselves at the cinema that night.
The Date
She mentioned she used to dance, a “wannabe ballerina,” she said, laughing lightly, half-self-mockery, half-secret pride. Beautiful thing, that mixture. Grace that never fully leaves the body. Discipline disguised as softness.
I spoke of my writing: poems, stories, worlds stitched in silence.
Two arts facing each other quietly: body and word; movement and thought.
We sat close. Not as strangers but as two people testing the warmth between them like one tests the edge of a flame: careful, curious, wanting the heat.
The theater dimmed.
Silence became a language.
I kissed her the way slow scenes demand, so neither hungry, nor hesitant, but deliberate, as if time would stretch for us. Her breath changed; her shoulders loosened; she leaned in like she’d been waiting to exhale.
After, we left without naming anything. Naming kills magic too early. Better to let things hover. Suspended. Half dream, half intention.
The Moment of Doubt
Later, she confessed that she thought I wouldn't come. That small ache she tried to hid (that tiny wound of “maybe he won’t”) revealed more than any longo speech could.
For a brief moment, she imagined abandonment; the old fear women who feel deeply know too well.
And then relief washed in when I arrived.
Care disguised as nonchalance and I saw it.
And yet she kept her composure.
Women like her do.
Pride and longing can coexist in fragile harmony.
I tried to pull her home but she resisted and i respected that.
The Aftermath
Later on, she texted If i had arrived safe and sound so i joked that she would feel safe and sound with me, to which she replied that tomorrow that could be true. Then we sent our goodnights.
An invitation disguised as a joke.
A door barely cracked, but undeniably open.
A soft test of closeness.
She asked if I arrived safely.
Not habit, but emotion.
Women don’t check on men they don’t feel.
She is curious.
A little unsteady in her newfound attraction.
Half-logical MBA, half-dreaming girl emerging into womanhood.
Drawn to the calm she sees in me and to the quiet certainty that doesn’t rush.
We kissed as if we already knew.
We parted as if we’d see each other again without needing to promise it.
No claims, no boasts.
Just energy suspended in the air between us, still warm from the touch.
The story breathes.
Good stories always do.
And we will continue this one
not because we force it,
but because neither of us quite wants to step out of the frame yet.
