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Weekly Contest #172
There were years when I had too much time with her. The first night we met in a crowd of hundreds. She appeared in the darkness with a smile that lit me up. I didn’t ask her to dance, but I wanted to. I watched as she bobbled through the others, floating in and out of my vision. I don’t remember how we started talking. It was cut short by the flashing blue lights, a stampede of teenagers acting older than we were. My heart raced, scanning the crowd as I jumped in my buddy’s truck, trying to find her face. A half mile down the road I found h...
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