They
both looked around trying to run away as their mothers urged them to dance. She
walked reluctantly as her mum pushed her to the center of the dance floor,
while he made faces, head down, shuffling his feet. Cursing. They look around
when told to dance then turning amber they both grudgingly fall in to step with
each other. They both look awkwardly at the guests that comment on their
'cuteness'. After five minutes of
dancing they withdraw timidly and half an hour later they are found happily
playing in dirt, together. Two ten year olds, one dressed as a flower girl in a
pretty white dress the other in a little pant suit.
Twelve
years later they dance hand in hand at the wedding of her sister and his best
friend. They dance together, this time more confidently aware of the eyes' of
the guests on them, smiling. They repeat familiar dance steps, this time they
don’t curse, they smile and chat freely. Half an hour later they are caught
outside on a bench giggling, together. Two adults, one maid-of-honor the other
the best man, lost in old recollections.
A year later, they face each other again on
the dance floor, eyes filled with joy and faces lit with1 infinite happiness.
People gaze at them proudly, blessing them. Only this time they don’t care they
are too lost within each other to bother. They don’t speak; they have all the
time for that now. Later, hand in hand they cut the cake, one dressed in a
white bride's dress the other in a tux fit for any groom. For just an hour ago
they have been bonded forever, at the altar, as they were meant to be.
M.
