The True You

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He's staring at me; eyes locked with mine. I couldn't describe the emotion while we try to read each other through our eyes. "You really are beautiful," he says, smiling at me; breaking the silence.

"How can you say that?" I snorted, taking it as a joke. Because it isn't true.

He chuckled and caressed my cheek. "I don't know," he replied, "maybe because I can see what you can't see. I can see what others can't."

I knitted my eyebrows, confused. "You can see what?" I asked.

He smiled. My heartbeat became fast. As if time stopped when he whispered to my ear, "The true you."

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