“Do you have a crush on me?” [HAHAHAH oops]
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He spoke and she breathed out, watching the smoke slowly disappear into the winter night. Forearms leaning against the railing of their balcony, passing the cigarette to him and reapplying her lip balm ( lips dried by the cold air and buying time ). Fingers nimbly removing the hair tie holding up her ponytail and putting it around her wrist instead, a light shake of her head to let her hair fall a bit more pretty.
“Maybe”,
she thought of short hair and brown eyes, a warm heart and the sky. Of gentle laughter and hands touching, of her heart speeding and wider smiles. Of hugs excused with the name of friendship and ‘I love you’s that never meant what she desired. Of pain she couldn’t describe, realization that the way eyes sparkled when cellphones rang and loving gazes wasn’t for her and wouldn’t ever be.
“I want to”,
somewhere children were trying to stay awake, fighting tired eyes and adult promises of ‘sleep, we’ll wake you up in time’. And in a few hours fireworks would welcome the midnight and kisses and—
“I really want to”,
having him as the sole receiver of her affections, eyes only seeing messy hair and a smile brighter than the neon signs of New York. There was times when her heart fluttered in his presence and she thought that maybe, just maybe, she was there now.
And then it started hurting again.















