amie.

They were in the skytrain. It was raining outside; the glass windows were streaked with curving lines of rain that looked like meandering rivers. The sky was a plain grey - you couldn't tell the clouds and the sky apart. They were all uniform; they all gave a cold, indifferent look. But it was warm in the skytrain.
It was fairly crowded as it was the morning rush hour to catch the first planes before they fly off. People with preoccupied faces whizzed past them. But there they stood, also preoccupied. With each other's eyes.
He was leaving; the skytrain headed ever so quickly to the second terminal. They were just talking as one talks to an acquaintance - merely small talk. He cracked a joke and attempted to relieve the tension that existed between all that was left unsaid. It worked for awhile; she playfully stretched out her hand to hit him. Their hands touched, and lingered. They both couldn't let go.
He saw the longing in her eyes. She longed for a last goodbye. And she saw it in him too. That look of struggle, restraint, sadness, longing. It was all too familiar. He decided this would be his last chance. He put his arm over her shoulder and drew her near. She relented - there were tears in her eyes, as she leaned against him. There wasn't any need for words. They understood. The road ahead was going to be hard for them.
And so they stood, preoccupied, as the skytrain whizzed back and forth between the two terminals.

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Now, be honest. How many of you, having read this, have squirmed and dismissed this as something foolish, mushy and stupid altogether? Well, just because you felt uneasy reading it doesn't mean its stupid. I bet at a certain point of our lives, this will happen to us. And try tracing where that uneasiness comes from. It comes from the fear of facing your emotions; the fear of being subjected to it. It isn't a very rosy picture, to know that you're afraid of yourself.
We humans are strange creatures.
The things we do to run away, the things we do to forget.
I won't do it; I'll remember even if you don't.

hahaha! don't worry thats not some loanshark threat. LoL.