I knew that tonight was going to be special, I had already felt and predicted that something new would mark my life, so when, from inside the store, I saw his gaze out the window, I knew that Christmas would be different from all the others. I don’t know why, my heart seemed to speak quietly, almost a whisper that it would bring light into my life.
Then he came in, half smiled, a little ironic, almost telling me: doesn’t that mean, I know you looked at me too?But I still pretended not to understand, I changed sections and I think even if I was about to live a magical night, I wanted to escape, a little frightened of the usual failures, an inner voice that shouted: watch out !!!
- Suddenly.
- I never saw him again and the contradictions that inhabit my being began a brief discussion: Because you are afraid and stupid.
- You missed a great opportunity!The other voice said: it was better this way.
- No one deserves another story of pain.
- And in the middle of Christmas then.
- Let him go!.
That’s when in the middle of the moisturizers section, I picked gifts, reappeared and my heart felt an almost magnetic attraction, and asked me: would you like to win this one, I could hardly answer, but what happens, I almost feel like a teenager. Then I made a half smile, without grace or fear and said: it’s a good choice!
We got to the box together and he invited me to a coffee around the corner, so I broke the blocks, silenced all the sentences willing to imprison me for fear of trying again and I left, or rather, we left. this seemed real, things like that don’t happen in real life and especially in my life, but one way or another, it was very real.
It was Christmas Eve, I was sad before I went into perfumery, I was alone, I didn’t want to have dinner and I walked through this door just because one of the voices that live in me said: buy something to make you happy!And if we knew, before this happened, that happiness suddenly changes, that you walk through a door and change everything else forever.
That night I felt alone and her company filled my moment of life, we went from coffee to a glass of wine, then to the bottle, and we had so much to share, we were both alone, without dinner, without family around, two strangers at Christmas, from coffee to wine, sharing their lives as if they were old and old acquaintances, and I wonder if this meeting took place much earlier.
When dawn, there was no kiss or love. Drunken laughter still echoed in the kitchen as he slept on the living room couch. I looked at him for a few seconds before he woke up, looking me in the eye and wondering if I wanted to spend the rest of Christmas with him. I always give him a silly and passionate smile when I remember this story, even if it’s the tenth Christmas after that special day with him. We follow our Christmas, now with dinner and family at the table. Tonight was magical, unforgettable and transformed every other night and every day that followed the first day of the rest of our lives.
A love story in the middle of Christmas and life always surprises a heart willing to love, so give love a place in the midst of all your fear and confusion, let the surprises of the corner come in your path, after all, we never know where your heart is Enjoy and smile for luck , is waiting for you right there, in the next corner.