About Stranger

Stranger. Fascinating, strangers are, they're the people who you walk past every day yet may never know. The stranger who you see across the street on a busy morning with the crisp bite of the snow falling around your feet. The stranger is the one always holding her coffee in her right hand with her coat pulled close to keep out the chill. You wish you had a name to the beautiful stranger who stands huddled at the bus stop with her coffee and coat. You'll see her every day when you leave your apartment. Maybe if you waved she'd wave back. You see each other every day after all. She wouldn't wave back, of course, she doesn't recognize you, You're just another stranger. The snow will melt and the trees will sprout green buds and you'll see the stranger. You'll see the stranger and you'll reach out and as she's getting on the bus you'll wave and she won't see. Of course, it was just bad timing, you try to tell yourself, but maybe the stranger did see and why would the weird girl across the street who always comes out of her apartment at the same time every morning be waving at her. You're probably the weird girl in her mind. She probably knows you've got nowhere to be this early and you're always just looking for her. She knows. She doesn't. How could she? So you try again. Walk out. See the girl. Wave. Miss. You leave earlier in a desperate attempt to see the stranger, to name the stranger. Walk out. See the girl. Wave. Miss. Repeat. She's got to be ignoring you now. She has to be. In a last ditch attempt, you jog across the street attempting to avoid getting hit because how embarrassing would that be? You reach the girl. Up close you can see the freckles that dance across her pale cheeks and you can see the bright green speckled around the blue in her eyes. You become breathless as she smiles, her eyes light up and she's the most beautiful girl you've ever seen. Before you can say a word your stranger beats you to it with a bright greeting that sounds like music, and just like that your stranger isn't a stranger anymore.