HiDE AND SEEK OR SOMETHING?
Rainbow.
Wave, nod, and smile...smile, nod, and wave and repeat- that's what my neighbor and I have been doing. Our routine had become an intricate ballet, a delicate dance of avoidance and acknowledgment that I'd perfected over the past week, two days, five hours, thirty minutes, and forty-six seconds. The countdown ticked away in my mind like a metronome, marking the passing moments since our last encounter.