SYNCHRONICITY (Dream Walker) 🖋

Sebastian's Eyes

Alison felt as if she'd been stuck to the chair with some unknown glue to her bottom. "So this is you maybe being a little early?"

Sebastian chuckled. "Yeah. Sorry."

She shook her head as she turned her head trying to view him peripherally. "No you're not." He was still as tall as a cedar tree.

He chuckled again. "You're right, I'm not."

The silence that followed was awkward for all four of them. Alison could hear her pulse in her ears and the sweat that was making her palms clammy was downright embarrassing...she was no longer a teenager, so why was this happening? Sebastian Matus was just a guy she liked once...

"Please turn around so that I can see you," he whispered; the need obvious in his lack of vocal intensity.

She spun slowly in the chair and held on to the table and the back of the chair to keep herself upright. She stared at his black cowboy boots and grinned...some things never change. If what she thought she remembered about him, the way he always looked at her was still the same, she might faint at the sight of him.

Her eyes slowly scanned the obviously well-muscled male-body standing before her. She felt her mouth becoming slack as she slowly exhaled. The guy before her certainly was not the same guy she used to know...Oh no...This guy was straight out of a magazine, with his navy blue suit and pale blue shirt, man bun and facial hair...

Finally her eyes met with his and they uttered with synchronized precision a breathy, "oh..."

But was it his emerald-green eyes and his goofy smile, or perhaps it was the way he chuckled, "wot?"

Oh yeah...this is Sebastian all right...it's definitely him...she thought.

And as if without a will of her own, she jetted up from her chair and collided with him. She felt her arms circle his neck and his face bury in the crook of hers.

She remembered that he felt very deeply about certain things...She remembered him holding an  injured ginger-colored kitten that had been laying on the side of the  road in his large hands as tears slipped from his eyes. He held the  kitten up to her..."Can you fix him?"

"I don't know," she had said as she took the tiny fur baby in her hands. She told him that she had felt the life force leave its tiny body and she shook her head with regret and sorrow. "We found him too late," she said. "I'm so sorry hon." She remembered crouching next to him and circling her arms around his neck.

No words needed to be spoken between them...the years that had passed were now nonexistent. They both laughed, slightly embarrassed at having sniffled at the same time. She pulled away and lifted the palm of her hand to his cheek and wiped at the single tear that had fallen from his eye. He tenderly held her face in his hands and brought his lips to hers with a feathery kiss.

She laughed when he then happily kissed all over her face.

"Alright you two, get a room," Topher teased.

She looked over her shoulder. "Got one, thanks."

"Still have your smart-attitude I see?" Topher playfully rolled his eyes and nodded. "Mmm...touché!"

She looked up at Sebastian, eying him hard. "Get out of my head," she whispered.

"No. I've too much to share with you."

She shrugged her slender shoulders. "So talk to me like a normal person?"

Judy grinned as Topher laughed aloud. "Ain't nothing normal about either one of ya!"

"Anyway, normal is a dryer setting isn't it," Sebastian teased.

Alison turned her head and looked into his green eyes and smirked and he winked his eye at her.

"Well, on a scale from one to ten with regard to happy reunions, I'd have to say you two have hit the ball out of the ball park," Judy said. "I've got to get this roast in the oven, or it's going to be take out for us all tonight."

"Well, that's all right as well, Judy," Sebastian said, still holding onto Alison as if he were afraid she'd grow wings and take flight. "Don't want you to trouble yourself."

"Sebastian Matus, you know that it's no trouble, but that having been said, Ali? What do you want to do, Love?"

She shook her head as she shrugged her shoulders, torn as to how to proceed. "Well, it is roast beef..."

"Very well then," Judy said as she rose from her chair.

"But," Alison continued, "It's summer and it's hot out."

Judy sat down and folded her arms before her on the table. "I'm listening..."

"How about we hit the Safeway and score some steaks and grill? We can sit outside and get some fresh air—the sun will be on the other side of the mountain soon..."

Judy looked to her husband as a thoughtful look came over his face. "We could do that and have the roast another time?"

"How about tomorrow then? I don't want it to go bad," Judy warned lightly.

Sebastian rested his chin atop Alison's head. "Sounds great to me!"

"Fine, let me get my purse. My treat...just so I don't have to cook it..."

Sebastian frowned. "No Darling. I'm buying."

Hands immediately went to hips as she turned to face him, the formidable wizarding lawman, understanding that he was already wrapped around her little finger. "You can walk behind me in the store while I shop."

The man's cheeks turned scarlet. "You know, I really hate that you still know me so well."

Alison giggled as she slipped her fingers into the buttons of his dress shirt and pulled him behind her. "Here, practice a little bit while I go upstairs for my purse."

His left brow rose high but the rest of his face was unreadable until the right corner of his lips curved upward. "I seem to recall that you like stairwells," he murmured as he followed behind her.