sonder

koi no yokan

Chapter Forty Two

Koi No Yokan

(n.) The extraordinary sense upon first meeting someone, that you will one day fall in love.

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    Kali was unexpected in my life... she was simply a girl who I met on the opposite side of the blue door in the middle of a town I didn't know but the day I met her, I knew I was going back to that bookstore. And I know deep down that it had nothing to do with wanting to spend the day away from home, nor did it have to with wanting to be at the bookstore. No, what drew me back day and day again was the girl with curly hair and strikingly beautiful green eyes.

    It was the way she walked so confidently around the store, the way she spoke with other customer, the banter she shared with Mr. Harvey. It was the proud smile she always had on her face when she spoke about her siblings. It was everything about Kali that made me mesmerized by her.

    I knew that first day that she was something special, something completely different than anyone I'd ever met before. And now, looking at her, sitting by the river, biting her lip with anxiety. I couldn't help but love her a million times more than I already did.

    She was broken but her broken piece fit with mine, perfectly. Together, we were a mess but we were imperfectly right for each other at this second, on this day, in this lifetime.

    "Kali, I..." I start but stop myself instead. This was my chance to make things right so I did... I kissed her like my life depended on it. And instantly I knew that all was right in the world, even if isn't, right now, in this moment, Kali and I were all that mattered.

    It was her and me and everything else faded to the background. Everything just made sense when we were together. And that's how we ended our summer of confusion and losing and finding yourself again... together, for better or worse.