That One Second

The sky has turned a deep blue though it was time for it to turn dark. The wind that was hitting against her soft face was cool and she squinted her eyes. With one hand clutching her hand bang, she tried to control her flying hair. The walk was a short one.

She was walking on the edge of the road and she could hear a vehicle approaching from the opposite direction. It was coming in a speed that was neither slow nor fast and it seemed that the driver was unable to decide on it.

She looked at the vehicle once and returned her gaze back to the path ahead. After a second she looked back again. Wasn't that a familiar shirt? She tried seeing clearly through her spectacles and the nature played villain in her way. A few droplets of rain fell on her frame and traced their way to the glass. She blinked twice and the decided that familiarity was beyond that shirt alone.

It was him. Her heart started beating faster and the world seemed blurred around him.

The bike was coming very near. And her vision was getting better and better. She tried to have a look at that piercing eyes. She averted her eyes from the rider and when the bike was parallel to her, she tried to have one look. Her eyes gradually shifted to those melting eyes. For a fraction of a second their eyes met and the world had paused for her. The bike went past her and the slowly revolving world regained its original speed. She walked a few steps ahead and stood still. She had difficulty breathing and she had a hard time believing that he looked at her, even though it was for a second. A second or a nano-second, time doesn't matter.

She turned her head and looked at the tail lights of the passing vehicle. It seemed to be going in the same speed. The bike was approaching the right turn of the road and she turned back her head and looked at the road ahead of her.

She looked back a few moments later and the vacant road stared back at her. A tiny drop of rain water fell on her right cheek. It rolled down towards the fall that awaited it and another drop from the other eye accumulated near the edge of the eye and joined the falling drop.