It was in the corner of "Shattuck," and "Hearst" that he told her what she wanted to hear all these years without even knowing it...
He said that it was the distances that made the people love each other more, understand each other better and appreciate what they have with each other. He told her the distances are what we need in order to find ourselves ...
While walking in the "Oxford," she told him her secret. That she was finally moving to her own city; she told him how long ago she walked around this city and knew that she will end up spending the rest of her life living and working there. Nobody knew about it, but him... He told her that knowing her all these years he does not remember seeing her this content and sure about anything.
Ten years has gone by, and things haven't changed he still admired her and she still lusted after him pretending that she did not care. She even showed him an old tree and told him it reminded her of his grandma's house. Nothing has changed they were still kids playing in the backyard..
They walked towards "Center," to meet up with other friends when she asked him if he thought she was doing the right thing? Shouldn't she go down the path that others went, the happy people's path? She told him that she was confused about everything, she just did not know anymore. For the first time in her life she told him that she was scared...
It was in the "Center," that he told her that one day he realized life was the steps that he was taking in between his daydreamings.. that yeah that was it, this very moment that him and her were walking towards Shattuk ..
life could've been different yeah, when they took away his father they could've let him come back but they never did. When they took away her father , he could've been disappeared but he came back, and Yeah that made the world of difference...
She looked at him and thought nobody would believe that there are people in this world who are let down by the world before even coming into this world, but never let anybody down..
Nobody would believe that there are people who chose to forgive and move on....
And yeah not that many people will believe that "Life," was the steps that they were taking that very moment in the "Center..."
Couple of weeks ago in Santa Cruz they stumbled upon a Jazz club and watched people dancing to the live music. They had to wait for a friend to come back from the restroom so they can go to the beach and do shots, he pointed to some of the dancers and told them that they danced well. They looked at each other and laughed, they used to dance the hell out of nights with each other long ago. Once in between dances he hold her wrist tight and asked her what she was running away from ? She didn't say anything, she left couple of months later ...
Maybe he came here after ten years to see with his own eyes where did she ran away to. He came at the right time to the right place, maybe you cross the streets of the city that you feel you belong to with the people who belong to your life not the people who come and go...
When he was leaving she told him that they may never meet again and he smiled. And she remembered it was the distances that made you find yourself and love even more. Maybe one day they meet again and then dance the hell out of the night...
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