To Follow you or To Lose you

Chapter 5: Dinah's warning.

Camila and I had lunch at the Body Rock Café for a whole month.

Sometimes she would abandon one of her clients just to sit next to me; sometimes she would bring with her a herd of children who, despite their mischief, were unable to ruin our meeting.

I discovered in this time that she wasn't as crazy as I had originally believed. In fact, her phrases were more sensible than many said by those who called themselves sane.

She wasn't crazy. Camila was just free.

"... After that I traveled to Holland and visited..."

But I didn't listen to her, because I was too busy counting her blinks. Every time her chocolate-colored eyes disappeared behind her eyelashes there was me to admire the moment as if it were art.

It was.

I'd counted a hundred and forty-six blinks.

"Why don't you ever stop counting?" She didn't seem angry, just curious.

"How did you know I was counting?"

"It's easy. You did it out loud."

It wasn't the first time something like this had happened to me: When something really mattered to me I forgot myself and concentrated on numbers.

I wasn't ashamed of it. I considered my addiction to calculus to be one characteristic more. My hair was dark, my eyes green and my mind was full of figures. I didn't find anything strange about it.

"I can't stop doing it" I answered her previous question "The world is made of figures, so I can't ignore them. It's something my mind needs to know."

"Then we have many things in common" She said to me with a smile as she stood over the table and joined our noses. The unexpected contact left me so surprised that I didn't count my breaths. "You are a star and so am I. You're a girl and so am I. You need to know things, and so do I, although yours refers to numbers and mine to places, which is almost the same but different..."

Her voice sounded like that of a little girl who had just made a new discovery, but our exaggerated contact was starting to send shivers through my entire body.

I pushed her away gently, just realizing quite surprised that I wanted her back in front of me.

I didn't understand at the time what kind of lunatic she was making me, but I have to admit, I liked it.

"We're both stars?" I was able to ask after taking her away. She nodded three times.

"You're Mrs. Luna and I'm Mrs. Sol" She clarified as she took a napkin and began to fold it to, in the end, not get any figure "I thought you knew. It's very obvious."

It wasn't, but I didn't dare tell her for fear of making a fool of myself.

"Why Moon and Sun?"

"I don't know yet, but when I find out I'll tell you" Camila promised me while she took only my pinky between her hands.

I smiled in response, as I appreciated the fact that she shared her findings with me. I also did it because I liked the contact we were having, and because I suddenly wanted her to hold more than my pinky.

I walked away when I thought about it, because I didn't understand what was happening to me.

She didn't seem to notice.

"Soon I will have to leave" She told me with a sweet smile while trying to eat what little was left on her plate with a straw.

"I know. I know a customer is waiting for you..."