Letters Under the Moonlight

thout knowing. And now we're both pretending the

ere looked differ

e light. Or may

ng a single letter in her hand - the first one. Th

though she knew them by heart. Every cu

n when you don

een him

El

returned with re

her side - not really - e

seen Elian i

she found

. Not even a message. It was as if, now that his

dn't h

ge way, she u

tried to fill shoes that weren't his. Maybe he believed it was

in pretend love co

d been quietly standing ne

y used to sit beneath when they were kids. He was sketching something

before she

ame,"

ack to what's re

bli

ed. Just

down be

above them, and somewhere nearby a bird called once, th

paper from her pocke

wly, recognizin

one," he

needed to read it again. Out loud

uiet swallow. "I didn't mea

"It became the beginnin

r. "I thought yo

"I just didn't re

r window, legs curled beneath he

w let

didn't n

opened a jour

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r K

I needed mystery

as to be known - not watched, not im

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