“Oh my God…” she covered her mouth with one hand and burst into tears. Slowly we moved closer to each other with tears in eyes… for me, not only they were tears of joy, they were tears of lost, love, ache and longing… It was unbelievable, both of us reached out our hands and… I wanted to touch her cheek… pull her into me. But my own reminder stopped me again, instead, I brushed her arm… feeling her warm smooth skin under my palm, it was surreal. Then her heating palm lay on my cheek, I automatically lean my head into her palm, rubbing on it… it was confirmed… she was real… standing less than a foot in front of me… her palm on my cheek… my heart ached even more…

Then desperation hit me, I could care less whether I scared her anymore… I could always said that “We haven’t met in a while.” Excuse… I pulled her into a tight hug… so tight I thought I must had suffocated her… but neither did she protest nor complain…

I leaned my head and buried my nose into her hair… smelling her always so nicely scented hair… not only I saw her, I smelled her, I felt her, I heard her voice… I had the urge to want to kiss her as well… that was when I freaked and pulled away, ashamed of my perverted thought… she looked at me curiously and asked, “What’s wrong Bette?”

Tina

She pulled away from me as if I suddenly became a burning charcoal, burnt into her and she had to pull away so fast…

A gush of chill air replaced the warm and comfy feel of her body against mine. “What’s wrong Bette?”

She just smiled sheepishly. She could be as sophisticated and strong as she wanted to fool other people with it, but when she smiled like that at me, it just showed me that she has a vulnerable side too.

Knowing well that she wouldn’t give me an explanation of her sudden stunt anytime soon, I spoke again, “We’ve lost touch with each other.” My heart was aching… pulling from the lost I felt… we’d lost so much missing out on each other’s lives.