Considerations

“You’d want to keep me. I’d want to be kept. What a disaster that would be.”

It felt like a devastating blow to her ego that she might want to belong to someone, with someone. She had maintained her autonomy for such a long time, and relished her independence.

“I like the idea of it, but I don’t consider the likelihood of such a thing having any kind of duration. I sometimes fantasize about someone being in charge, but ultimately I’m a bit of a control freak.” 

“Well, you’ll need to let that go. Control is an illusion. Ultimately, we are leaves on the wind.”

“Watch how we soar.” She breathed the words through a smile more than spoke them, though he heard her.

“Is that part of a poem?”

She turned to him, incredulous.

“I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar? You seriously have no idea what I’m referring to right now?”

“No. Should I?”

“I aim to misbehave?”

“Ooh, now that sounds fun.”

She bit her lip and turned away. This wasn’t going to work after all.