Quick lights paint close walls as far-off thuds rumble in loose distortion. The big man at the center of it all looms tall above the rest. Their bodies can’t help but encircle and pivot his like planets to a star. His muscled arms pump up and out. He grins as surrounding thrashing forms are caught in strobe-lit glimpses.
Yet her outline first appears in shadows.
A little closer, and he sees she’s dressed in simple black, stands perfectly still, and wears a slight smile more charming than any he’s seen.
He lunges through inconsequential masses, pushing past a hundred would-be doppelgangers (scabs emulating him to varying degrees).
She waits.
“Hi!” he yells near her ear, cupping hands to his mouth.
There are shudders of warmth and coolness as she leans in a little and breathes, “Hello.”
Quivers glitch through his spine, and his first urge is to heave her away, turn, and dash. But the impulse makes no sense. He keeps himself steady and watches, dumbfounded, as she begins to nod and slide in effortless time. Her smile is that of a young girl upon opening a box to find a cherished and expected gift.
With guiding arms, he leads her back to the center of his universe.
She is brought as though not holding him in sway.
“I’ve never seen you here before,” he shouts, gradually unclenching until he’s just a happy boy again pumping and waving his arms. A wonderful boy.
She never seems to be quite straight across. Her eyes rest just a little too peacefully on his. She barely appears to dance, but glides to him as if but a cog to his great machine.
A little closer.
A little closer.
Back a little.
The same coy, fixed smile…
A little closer.
Too natural to be planned. Too perfect just to be.
He shoots her an unusual glance, perplexed anew by this mysterious stranger he’s now allowed into his home.
She blinks just in time to ease back in. Their lips meet. He sees in flashes her smile growing, both in width and grace. Her eyes stay closed.
“Do I know you?” he blurts, not quite sure why.
Her expression doesn’t change. But the look she gives him as her eyes open again says far more than “yes.”
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