Today is graduation day. I put on a dark green dress, and I’ve let my hair out. I would have put make-up on too, but I ran out of time.
The room is crowded with teachers, students and their parents. Everyone is talking, but I don’t mind the noise so much, as everyone seems to be genuinely happy and excited. I feel excited too.
I know you are somewhere in this room, and I’m hoping that I’ll see you some time this evening before I go home. I don’t know what I’d say to you, but I just want to see you.
But for now, it is my friends that I see. They are huddled in a group in one corner of the room towards the back. I start making my way over to them when suddenly, quite out of the blue, you appear; and just as suddenly, I quite forget about my friends.
We smile at each other as we always do.
“Hi,” you say, “you look nice”.
“Thank you,” I say, feeling my cheeks flare up at the compliment.
I expect you to tell me something else, for I notice you leaning in towards me. I wait for you to say whatever it is you desire to say, but you don’t. Instead, you keep leaning in, closer and closer, and that’s when I understand there is nothing you wish to tell me – you only want to kiss me. And I, realising this, do not move away, for I understand that I only you want you to kiss me too.
(This was also some bizarre dream I had months ago. Vivid, emotional, and bizarre).
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