09-07-2025, 06:07 PM
And she had rejected it.
Clearly.
Wordlessly.
Immediately.
The rest of the ride passed in a strange vacuum.
No words.
No glances.
Only the humming engine and the city lights flickering across her fair skin.
Ravi shifted
Pulling his hand back to his own lap.
The warmth was gone.
But the memory of it wouldn’t leave.
Neither would the look he hadn’t seen
But felt, on her face.
And yet…
Even in rejection, she hadn’t scolded.
She hadn’t said a word.
Which somehow made it worse.
The auto slowed.
Their building came into view.
As it stopped, she stepped out first.
Not quickly. Not dramatically.
But with a certain distance in her posture now
As though she had wrapped herself back into something familiar.
Ravi followed.
And just before the auto pulled away
He looked up at their apartment building
Wondering, was it all over now?
Had he ruined something?
Or… had he simply woken it up?
- o -
Clearly.
Wordlessly.
Immediately.
The rest of the ride passed in a strange vacuum.
No words.
No glances.
Only the humming engine and the city lights flickering across her fair skin.
Ravi shifted
Pulling his hand back to his own lap.
The warmth was gone.
But the memory of it wouldn’t leave.
Neither would the look he hadn’t seen
But felt, on her face.
And yet…
Even in rejection, she hadn’t scolded.
She hadn’t said a word.
Which somehow made it worse.
The auto slowed.
Their building came into view.
As it stopped, she stepped out first.
Not quickly. Not dramatically.
But with a certain distance in her posture now
As though she had wrapped herself back into something familiar.
Ravi followed.
And just before the auto pulled away
He looked up at their apartment building
Wondering, was it all over now?
Had he ruined something?
Or… had he simply woken it up?
- o -
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