01-17-2020, 05:53 PM
The force of her attention is unsettling. Yet as she deflects his suggestion, and tells him she has nowhere to be, his heart beats a little faster. The intensity of her presence had led him to step aside for her, but she lingers. It makes him wonder what there is about him that is deserving of her notice.
To wonder what she could see in an awkward, ugly colt.
To wonder what he has to do to make her stay.
Then she asks what he knew she would, asks about the one interesting thing about him. Someday, maybe, he will be a man who knows his own mind, who shrugs off such questions, but not today. Now he is a boy looking for connection, and more inclined to please than to resist. So when she asks her questions, he nods, thinking back over his short life with true thoughtfulness.
The frost along his topline crinkles softly as he shifts under the weight of the brief silence. The two sides of himself snap and pull at each other, wrestling for the spotlight. He thinks he knows already which side she wants to see, though how he knows, he can not understand. So, he asks because he doesn't want to disappoint her.
"Which part do you want to hear," he says, unsure of where to start, "the happy or the sad?"
@[violence] so sorry for the wait!
To wonder what she could see in an awkward, ugly colt.
To wonder what he has to do to make her stay.
Then she asks what he knew she would, asks about the one interesting thing about him. Someday, maybe, he will be a man who knows his own mind, who shrugs off such questions, but not today. Now he is a boy looking for connection, and more inclined to please than to resist. So when she asks her questions, he nods, thinking back over his short life with true thoughtfulness.
The frost along his topline crinkles softly as he shifts under the weight of the brief silence. The two sides of himself snap and pull at each other, wrestling for the spotlight. He thinks he knows already which side she wants to see, though how he knows, he can not understand. So, he asks because he doesn't want to disappoint her.
"Which part do you want to hear," he says, unsure of where to start, "the happy or the sad?"
@[violence] so sorry for the wait!
