The Laws of Love

Chapter 58

Yuri didn't move. It was already dark and she could only know it was him because the car's roof lights were on, bringing amber gleams to her eyes from the sea. But she did not turn. She felt self”conscious in a good way.

"Look at you..." he whispered. You remind me of all the pretty things I liked when I was a teenager. To the movie afternoons with your best friend being an idiot in the last row, to watch the sunset on the beach, to return home when only the streetlights light up and there is no silence left, to smoke lying down with the music that he liked to my mother in the background...

"Did you smoke?" He stammered, not knowing what else to answer.

"I spent the day high, dreaming of a girl like you."

She swallowed, startled by her palpitations; for what a word of his did in his body.

"And what happened after that...how did you get where you are?"

“Well, I convinced myself that they didn't exist and it wasn't worth wasting ti