LIFE HAPPENS WHEN YOUR MAKING PLANS

BABY STEPS

Sanem waited with anticipation. Can kept looking in her eyes and then down to her mouth. He slowly lowered his head towards her. He rested his forehead on her forehead...like he used too. Sanem could feel his breath on her face. His eyes were closed, almost like he was dreaming. Can then lowered his mouth to hers and softly kisses her. The kiss started out slow but immediately became intense. Can kissed her like a starving man. He had never kissed her in this way before. The butterflies were going crazy in Sanem's stomach. She could do nothing but hold on for dear life.

Can slowly raises his head and looks straight into her eyes....almost to her soul. Sanem asked him what was wrong. Can answered that he knew this smell. He also said she felt right in his arms and kissing her was like breathing life into his body. It all felt familiar to him and so very right. She asked him if he remembered anything about them. Can finally admitted to her that he was having mental flashes of them all day....on the rocks...his childhood home and now here. Can admitted to Sanem that his memories were coming back in flashbacks, sort of like a movie.

Sanem's eyes were tearing up and tears fell down her cheeks. Can grabbed her face and wiped her tears away. He asked her to please don't cry. It tore him up to see her cry. He then wrapped his arms around her and held her while they continued to dance. Sanem rested her head on his chest and listened to his heartbeat. Can rubbed her back, her arms and then played with her hair. When the song ended, Can grabbed her hand and walked her to the swing where they sat down.

Can asked Sanem how they met. Sanem told him the story of the opera house where the agency was celebrating their 40th anniversary. She told him Jey Jey gave her the wrong location to meet him and she ended up in the balcony of the opera house. It was the same balcony where Can and Polen were supposed to sit. Sanem told him it was dark, and she could not see anything. She told him that was when he entered the balcony, took her in his arms and kissed her passionately. Sanem admitted if was her first kiss. She told him she never saw his face, only his black, dress shoes and then she ran. Can smiled while she was telling this story. Can asked her how she knew it was him. Sanem told him it was him who figured it out. He asked her how. Sanem told him it was her smell. He knew before she did. Can asked her when she found out. Sanem told him that she ended up at the opera house with Jey Jey on the evening of Polen's birthday party. She thought Can and Polen had gotten back together and refused to attend the birthday party. She said she texted Can while at the opera house with one word "If". Can dressed in the same suit he wore for the agency's 40th anniversary and went to the opera house. Sanem ended up in the same balcony where Can kissed her. The lights suddenly went off and dimmer lights appeared. Suddenly, she heard footsteps and there was Can. She told him that he walked down to her and told her she texted "If" and he wanted to know the continuation. Sanem said she looked down and saw his shoes and knew he was her Albatross that she had been searching for. She said she looked in his eyes and he kissed her like he did that first night. She told Can that she felt her organs move when he kissed her. Can laughed so hard and told her he fell in love with a crazy girl. He told her he had never met anyone quite like her. Sanem told him he used to tell her that all the time.

They packed up and returned to the farm. Sanem felt more alive. Can's memories were returning, slowly, but they were returning. Can went back to his father's house and Sanem went to her chair by the firepit. She opened her notebook and began writing. Can stood on his father's balcony and watched her write. He realized he loved this girl. He just didn't know if the feeling was before his memory loss or if he was falling in love with her all over again.