Sunday, January 15, 2012

Four




Her first middle school dance.  He’s still too young to go.  She nervously slips into her scandalously high heeled shoes which she still can’t believe her father let her purchase. 

“Is he coming down?” her father asks. 


“Is who coming down, Dad?” she responds indignantly. 


“PICTURES!”  Flash.  Mom naively saves the day.


She and her newest best friend pose for blinding shot after blinding shot.  Flash.  Flash.  Some posed, some posed to look as if they aren’t posing.  As she reenacts the process of putting on mascara for the 50th shot, (flash) there’s a knock at the door.


He’s covered in snow.  Hair disheveled, clothed in battered jeans and an athletic jacket.   No one would know that he changed 3 times.  He’d never admit how he stood in the cold for 5 minutes in her backyard admiring the way she moved in that dress—Flash.


The only picture she now has of the 2 of them. 

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