the eyes
You approach her with a stupid question and continue with a weird conversation. Actually you want to make some clever conversations but there is no time to think about something clever. It seems like the best moment to catch her attention would disappear as quick as a butterfly flipping its wings. She might also think that you are weird asking her these nonsense questions and in such case she is not completely wrong though. However she is talking to you now.
She says that she is not a local people as you have guessed. She is also a foreign tourist just like you. It’s not new to her that you have falsely guessed her nationality. People always failed to guess her nationality even when she was in her own homeland.
You try to get her into further conversation. You like the way that she talks. She is not a kind of person who talks with raised pitch or rushing the conversation. She talks like a kind storyteller who is telling tales to the kids, slow and sweet. It’s a pleasant listening to her voice.
She holds a small traveler’s guidebook in her hands. You like the way she use several fingers to mark interesting pages of the book. You usually did that when you read books too. From the guidebook she tries to show you the photo of places she has been and the places she plans to visit today. You pretend that you cannot see the book clearly so that you can move closer to her. Actually you want to go even closer but you don’t. You don’t ask her much about that book. You want her to keep reading that book so that you can steal a glimpse on her face. You feel excited when looking at her from this close distance, when you watch her beautiful eyelash and her pretty eyes. Or when she looks at you there is also a charming smile on her face. But perhaps such smile is your own illusion. Perhaps she has done nothing more than a look and you are being too optimistic about her smiling at you.
One thing that is strange but you like it so much is when she takes a stroll with you. Somewhere in the middle of her talk, or while she answers your weird questions, she would stops walking abruptly. And when you stop too she would then turn toward you and talk as if she wants you to pay high attention to her words. Once she finish those words you would give her a nod and smile at her so that she would not turn back and resume walking too soon and that you would stand face to her longer. Such a moment when she stops walking and turn toward you, such a beautiful moment that you wish the clock stop walking and pause you in that instant for some years.
She says that she is not a local people as you have guessed. She is also a foreign tourist just like you. It’s not new to her that you have falsely guessed her nationality. People always failed to guess her nationality even when she was in her own homeland.
You try to get her into further conversation. You like the way that she talks. She is not a kind of person who talks with raised pitch or rushing the conversation. She talks like a kind storyteller who is telling tales to the kids, slow and sweet. It’s a pleasant listening to her voice.
She holds a small traveler’s guidebook in her hands. You like the way she use several fingers to mark interesting pages of the book. You usually did that when you read books too. From the guidebook she tries to show you the photo of places she has been and the places she plans to visit today. You pretend that you cannot see the book clearly so that you can move closer to her. Actually you want to go even closer but you don’t. You don’t ask her much about that book. You want her to keep reading that book so that you can steal a glimpse on her face. You feel excited when looking at her from this close distance, when you watch her beautiful eyelash and her pretty eyes. Or when she looks at you there is also a charming smile on her face. But perhaps such smile is your own illusion. Perhaps she has done nothing more than a look and you are being too optimistic about her smiling at you.
One thing that is strange but you like it so much is when she takes a stroll with you. Somewhere in the middle of her talk, or while she answers your weird questions, she would stops walking abruptly. And when you stop too she would then turn toward you and talk as if she wants you to pay high attention to her words. Once she finish those words you would give her a nod and smile at her so that she would not turn back and resume walking too soon and that you would stand face to her longer. Such a moment when she stops walking and turn toward you, such a beautiful moment that you wish the clock stop walking and pause you in that instant for some years.
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