Me & My Shadow

There was a girl innocent she was, but she was alone.

People existed that wanted to break down her walls; little did they know that her wall was stronger than their patience could handle.

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Truth be told she is not scared of contact she is afraid of getting close, letting people know of her weaknesses and vulnerabilities then exposing her.

A time existed where she was surrounded by many friends and could not live in isolation however she has developed much thicker skin as the years went on.

Crack, Crack, Crack…

Lately, she has been a little preoccupied with the stressful life that she has been dealing with at home when she saw him.

Let’s be real loving this girl would be equivalent to loving a brick wall unemotional and impossible.

Though life had something else in store for her she met a boy he was nothing special so she left those thoughts alone.

There are some people in this world that will pull eye contact from the person that they are looking at that’s who he was.

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Since there continuous little staring contest became as common as a cold she waited for him to talk to her though instead it seemed that both of them were too scared to take the step.

She did nothing, he did nothing then something changed in both of them and their eye contact seemed to pull them closer like magnetic forces.

One day the boss of the bakery that she worked at asked her why she gives 20% in relationships but 100% in her work to that she had no answer then her boss continued and said word for word, “listen kid if you expect to get anywhere in life then make friends yes it is a gamble but some people are worth the risk and if you hide in your shadow like you do now chances are you won’t meet that person and you may have fights with that perfect person as well but all relationships have their imperfections but those moments are the ones that make it worth a million.”

The last day of school had arrived and their eye contact happened again as they exited the school her boss’s words were ringing in her mind and she made the choice of taking a leap of faith and said,

“Hey I know we make I contact a lot but we never talk so…”

He said in the middle of my incomplete thought “I know right I wanted to talk to you but I just didn’t know what to say…”

We both laughed at our idiocy.

Eight years have passed since that day and that scared and unemotional girl exists no more, she took that gamble at the end of high school and now she…

“Hey, how are the wedding preparations coming on your end?” He said with ruffled hair.

“As messy as your bed head,” I responded

He replied, ” good let’s get a coffee.”