backstage

he made a comment. she laughed.

"you laugh easy," he said.

she didn't quite know how to react. she stammered some reply, and he tried to save the conversation by saying it's a refreshing change from most of the people he knows.

she smiled.

he didn't know if it was her smile or her laughter which drew him. or the way she seems to get along so well with the seven-year-old girl across the room. or how she can speak on a lot of different things with a lot of different people. or how one moment she can be in the middle of a crowd, talking up a storm, and the next she's just standing by the corner, watching everyone else go by.

one thing he knew, though. that once the show is over,
he will never see her again.

he's already seen her a few times, actually. he even forgot her name. and now he wonders why he never noticed her before. maybe it's because he thought they'll never cross paths again. and yet here she is,
within five meters of him. life is funny.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

he was not the first person from the group that caught her eye. in fact, he didn't catch her attention at all. but he was the last person she thought of before she went to bed that night.

the few times she talked to him before, he seemed cold and detached. she thought it might be interesting to talk someone in the same line of work, but as it turns out he's not one for starting conversations. so that was that.

except that tonight he seemed more engaging than before. he even made her laugh a few times. "you laugh easy," he told her. and it made her smile.

before the evening ended he casually asked for her number. she had gotten his number, too. to her, it was nothing out of the ordinary.
at least, not at that time.

but when she got home, she felt a strange buzz just thinking about it.

she wasn't expecting him to ask for her number. she had her eye on someone else. but she wasn't going to do anything extraordinary to make some guy notice her. so she just went about her business,
and her business ended her in his company.

life is funny.