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« on: August 15, 2015, 12:15:58 AM »
When my eyes fall on her, when she walks into a room I feel like I'm going to be sick. My stomach cramps, and my heart beats faster, and as she walks past the smell of her breathes back onto me in the gust of her wake and I take it in, lungs full... the sweetness of her perfume and the tartness of her shampoo.
I love the sound of her laugh, the solid happy sound that she makes. It doesn't tinkle and it doesn't shimmer. It's not delicate like she's not delicate. Its loud, and its clumsy. It stumbles its way through the air. Its a contagion spreading through everyone who hears it, infecting them, bringing them to tears.
Her hair is as chaotic as her eyes, it's messy and it never sits right. It curls, and it twists, and it flops, and sticks up and out in all the wrong places. It's never the same colour, its never the right colour, it's never the colour she wants.
And her eyes, they stop me sometimes to the point of still breath. It's not the colour, because there's nothing unusual in them. They are not cat eyes or slanted or dipped. But they penetrate everything. They read everyone as easily as one of her books, mountained behind her. They see everything, notice most things people find too irrelevant to remember. But she does, and its as clear as day. They crinkle perfectly at the edges, the faintest wrinkles in her youthful skin hinting at what might one day be laugh lines.
You can see the way she fears; she goes off on one, gibbering about something she loves, passion lighting up her eyes and her face, her smile... until she suddenly stops. Apologises.
"Sorry for boring you..." she back off slightly, curtailed even though the listener was giving her their attention avidly. Or when she's about to say something, ready to voice her opinion and her mind, brave it out, regardless of the reaction she will get. Everyone's allowed their opinion! But again, she stops. She's been spoken over too many times, trampled by someone else who believes theirs is more important, or really just doesn't give a fuck.
But all these little things, from her social anxiety to her stupidly changing and evolving laugh, to her scent and her constant bed-head hair. I love it. I love it because I care.
And I really wish someone would think of me like this.