When I remember Julia a lot of thoughts come into my mind , like the orange mixed with gold in her hair , the random freckles on her face , the smile that is imperfect but perfect at the same time , I'm in love , guess I've been in love with her ever since I saw her play for the first time , she seemed so bright the sound she made slowly drifted of the cello and wrapped itself around her kneading little sparkly dreams to her skin , I'm in love , I'm in love ... What should I do?
Its 3am in the morning there's a week left until summer break , my old man sent me an email saying that he'll be gone in a trip this summer and I'm free to do as I like , I guess in a way he wanted me to know that he's slowly getting he's pieces together ,after all it was the same with me , getting away help us find some clarity and that makes me happy , to know that dad is still indeed the man I know , and the warm figure in my memory that'll always stay there , I smiled deciding to go buy coffee , it seems that I'm finding myself walking at night more
And more guess it's a habit I picked up, after getting to the coffee shop that was as expected vacant I settled at a seat in front of the glass wall from here the city streets look happy , the plants are asleep , and single light bulbs here and there are turned on in random houses with people that couldn't find sleep yet , makes me think are they like me ?, "hey there, its your first time here huh?" A guy said , he looked my age he has the classical look with long hair like mine , I nodded , he surprised me by taking a seat he pulled out a cigarette and handed me one , we both light them up and smoked in silence for a moment " I can't shake the feeling that I saw you somewhere " he said deep in thoughts , than he suddenly but he's hands on the table in realization " oh your the dude that played the duo with that red headed chick , man that was awesome you were the talk of the event , I mean everyone was astonished by your playing that they couldn't even move , it was awesome to see widening eyes and shocked faces in all the crowd felt like I'm witnessing a painter paint with sound" he said my eyes grew big I didn't know what to say but when I looked at his face I saw pure admiration ,I smiled " thank you " I said he relaxed back to his chair and smiled back "I'm Eric by the way " he said "Aris " I replied ,time passed quickly with us setting there smoking , we talked from time to time about our lives and occupations , he's a basketball player , he went professional for a year than decided that teaching the sport is better he enjoyed seeing young talents being discovered , there was a shine in his eyes when he spoke about it and I thought do my eyes sparkle too when I play?
"Hello" I said "uhm - hey Aris I know its your day off but could you maybe pass by the shop this afternoon " said Julia I imagined her blushing face , I sighted that girl is too cute " okey " I said hanging up , I guess when people are in love do stupid things , or don't know what to say for me it was the second case , I sighed walking to meet David , its the first time I'm going to him after the event , he said he got some big news to tell me , I passed by an art gallery at first I was going to continue my way to David but than I saw it , a painting , it had all kind of blue and red forming a picture of a girl I knew just from memory , my heart picked up its beating , without another thought I stepped in , not noticing anything else but that painting , I don't know for how long I was standing there looking at it but a voice snapped me out of my trance "Aris?"I looked at the owner of the voice ,and I though for a second that my through hurt so much from the emotions I kept ignoring , I remembered that day in black , he was there too his fingers where all in shades of red and blue just like the painting but at the time I didn't think much of it because I only thought of one person than, it was Aria's brother standing there next to me , I clenched my fingers inside my pocket " hey " I said , he looked drained with bags under his eyes that are muddy for a moment I was able to see right through them and than suddenly they turned flat so I did what I thought was right " care to join me for a drink Tonight? " I asked he smiled and nodded , I felt like with every move he made his spirit showed cracks and I know that all too well because I was like that before I met Ian and Julia and it felt too wrong just to leave him off in that state .
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Author's note
" sometimes people cry without tears , you just have to look for the cracks in their smiles and it'll tell you thousands of untold stories "
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Particles Of Youth
Short Story"that day I stayed out looking at the shop with instruments of all kinds but most importantly it had a piano that looked incredibly sad and lonely , I wanted to play it , I needed to play it my finger twitched in participation and so I took a step f...
