what do you think happened here?

He hung on with bated breath as she searched the air with an answer. There was none. The silence between them reeked of death and in her eyes were lightning quick flashes of doubt, fear, anger and pain. She struggled to meet his gaze. Speak! He implored her quietly. Her voice haunted her ever since the first time he heard it. Like whisky and cigarettes. “But I stopped smoking five years ago!” she would often say with that lilting accent he simply loved. And his reply will always be an adoring gaze. He’s been mesmerized from day one. What had he done to render her speechless – this woman who never runs out of words for just about anything? He wanted to squirm under those deep pools of hazel, now steadily looking back at him. Her mouth quivering as if in a serious battle with words. Her hand grabbed his arm and he felt a jolt of surprise.  She was shaking. The roughness of her palm was near abrasive and yet the warmth soothed him. He heard a sharp in take of breath. He held her gaze. Imploring. Pleading. She closed her eyes. He thought the world stopped and everything crashed and burned. Three agonizing seconds…then, she opened her eyes. And nodded with a faint smile. And a tear that was enough to wash away even the tiniest speck of fear and doubt, anger and pain in those hazel eyes. “In a heartbeat.” She whispered. 

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 Another month has passed! I cant believe how days fly by so quickly, especially when I am not so sure if I was able to make the most of each of them. What have I missed? Its either I’m to busy or to idle to notice. How’d I do? It’s either I’m too excited or too exhausted to care. What’s my problem? I’m too apathetic to even sense it. And I am just randomly typing down shit here, by the way. Amidst al that whacked rambling though, I wish al of you happy and memorable times ahead. August the first – cheers! (jager shots and dirty vodka martinis, anyone?)