This Is How It Feels When We See Each Other Again
It won’t be a day that starts out remarkable. It’ll be raining and I’ll dip into that local coffee shop near my place. I’ll be scrolling through my phone. Then the barista calls your name and my heart momentarily leaps into my throat. Except your name is so common it can’t possibly be you, right?
But it is you. With your tousled hair and smirk that drove me crazy for the right reasons at the beginning of our relationship.
The world will slow down as you move towards me. It’s been what? Five — no six years. The anger that used to inhabit my veins when it came to you has dissipated. It’s no longer threatening to boil over and cause damage to not only myself but every single person in this cafe.
Your eyes connect with mine and that’s when all of those feelings we used to have bubbled to the surface. It’d be so nice if we could strip off all of the pain and all of the love. It’d be great if we could go back to the kids who used to not give a shit about their future and just loved each other — flaws and all.
Those days were the best. We had nothing to worry about other than what we wanted to watch on TV or what we were going for breakfast on Sunday. The ones where we’d make out for hours before our bodies became one. It’s one of those memories that when I relive it, I feel like I’m…