UnMeeting

Chapter X

Chapter X
Remembrance

She grabbed it with both hands and said thanks. Gil sighed a little sigh and looked as if a weight has been lifted from his shoulders. She looked at the notebook in her hands but didn't open it. She knew she had to be alone when she opened it.

Their conversation didn't last long after that. Gil looked like he was in a hurry to leave so she decided to let him go.

"Do you have to go? I'd stay here for a little while. No problem," she assured him with a smile.

He gave her a light hug before standing up to leave.

"Don't hesitate to call me if you need anything." She just nodded and watched him as he left the café. When Gil has finally left, she held her trembling hands up and laid the notebook on the table beside her empty cup of coffee.

"I would just take a peek. It's not like the pain could get any worse.

She was wrong.

She didn't notice the tears as she slowly opened to the first page. Pasted there was a photo of them together above a very detailed description of her the first time they met. He described every single detail about her. What she was wearing, her bag, how she had tied her hair that day.

May 10, 2010.

The day she talked to a stranger. The day she opened her life to the world.

She noticed the tears when they started to blur her eyesight. She quickly brushed them with the back of her hand and then blew her nose on a napkin before closing the notebook and putting it inside her bag. A completely different bag to the one he described on that page.

"You changed me, Dylan. I wish you didn't have to leave."

She slowly stood up and managed to gather herself enough to leave the café, echoing Gil's footsteps just a few minutes ago.

Sheneeded to go to a place where she can cry her heart out.