I Will Find You
He has put on his blank face, which, now that I’ve seen the man under it in more than one kind of light, reads to me as the world’s most transparent billboard: FEELINGS HERE; DO NOT FEED WITHOUT CONSENT.
“Will you… pick me up tomorrow?” I ask, aiming for light and landing very close to flirty, which is frankly a miracle for me. “To take me to the celebration?”
The blank cracks. It happens like sun coming out from behind a stubborn cloud—one thin sliver, then the whole strip, then light that makes shapes honest. A slow smile starts at one corner and finally takes his whole mouth, softening his eyes, making the scar look less like a wound and more like a story interrupting a better one. He lea
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