1 In The Beginning

It was one bright and sunny summer's day.

A beautiful day, but my heart was aching, I was searching for something I did not quite understand, but my soul was searching recklessly for it.

I was silently suffering within. Then I decided to take a peek through my bedroom window and that is when I saw myself in the face of another person; a man.

One look into his eyes stripped my soul naked and revealed my most hidden inner secrets, and I became mesmerized by the feeling he gave me, it was a feeling I couldn't explain.

He was passing by my house with a group of other men and I couldn't help myself but follow after him.

I quickly ran outside and began to follow them, but everyone else disappeared, and only he was the one my mind focused on.

They stopped at a nearby bar, it was Saturday, and all the men in our little neighborhood loved to spend their 5 Saturdays at the bar, playing pool, drinking, and watching sports.

They went and stood around one of the pool tables and I noticed that there were no other ladies inside the bar, so I quickly began to make my way out of the bar as I felt outnumbered by all the men. But on my way out, his eyes locked with mine one more time. And for a moment there it was as if time stopped. I kept walking, I walked all the way back home, but just as I wanted to open the front door of my house, I felt a breath on my neck and I turned around only to find that he had followed me back home.

Usually a woman all by herself would get frightened by the very idea of this, but I felt a sense of safety with him that I couldn't explain.For a moment there we embraced each other and it was as if we could keep holding on forever, but we had to let go, as I had gotten a phone call, it was my sister,Daphne, and she needed my help with something.

He brushed his fingers against my cheeks and then he left after I apologized because I had to go. I stood frozen for a second there, I could still feel his fingers brushing against my cheek.