A Promise

Her head is buzzing and her body is tingling. She feels a pleasant warm sensation in the pit of her stomach, and she knows she’s hit her good state. She places her cup on the table and pulls one of her friends off the sofa to the designated dance floor. This intimate little party is exactly what she needed, some of her closest friends around her, good music and yummy snacks. She sways to the music and turns around to find a group of boys entering the room. She scrutinizes each one ad finally her eyes land on one particular boy. She stares at him, unaware that everyone can see she her eyes linger on him. She finds him attractive, but doesn’t feel like acting on it. Tonight she concentrates on the music, at least that’s what she tells herself then.

Still moving to the music, she walks into another room and takes out her goodies. She finds something missing and tried to make do without it. One by one a few people walk in to see what she’s up to, strangers she hasn’t met before. She greets each one with a polite smile and asks them to join her.  Then he walks in with exactly what she is looking for. Without thinking the first words she says to him are “I don’t even know you, but I think I love you.” They laugh it off, and think nothing of it. They all leave the room and the night progresses.

She stays with her friends and he stays with his. She moves her body on the dance floor and he sits comfortably on one of the sofas. Finally she takes a break and sits down a few seats from him, completely unaware of his presence, just enjoying herself. Suddenly a song starts playing, something her ears didn’t expect to hear tonight. Being in the state she was in with no inhibitions to stop her, she gets up and runs to the source, only to find it was him. Instantly a smile lights up her face and she tells him “I love this song!” And this is how their friendship begins.

One song after another they share their souls with each other, blissfully oblivious of the others around them. Laughing and talking, she doesn’t want him to leave and makes him promise that he won’t. The hours creep by them and slowly people say their goodbyes get in their cars and drive home to their irritated parents, but he stays, he sticks to his promise.  With each minute she feels more deeply for him, their connection grows stronger. It all seems like a fairy tale beginning to a new year and she is surprised she has such a strong grasp on the situation, any other day and she would have felt it was just a dream. But it all feels so real to her. Finally with dawn threatening to break they realize they must end their night, and with their first hug they depart. She breathes in the scent of his skin and wishes she could escape into the new year with him, but knows that she is being naïve even thinking so. As she watches him walk into his car, she knows that it may be the end of the night but it is merely the beginning of something incredible.