At times I thought that the universe would play with my life for no clear reason, and the stars would die and explode with laughter at my dismay. The beautiful man named Luis sat down at the table across from me, dropping a plastic container of food onto the surface loudly. If I hadn’t been so deep in thought, I would’ve jumped at the sound. He raised his arms questioningly, like he was waiting for something witty to happen.
“Nothing?” He laughed while screeching a chair across the room.
“Oh sorry, I’m just uh,” I audibly sighed. “Thinking about some stuff.”
Luis nodded with a mouth full of food. The smells of ethnic food drew my attention. “Yeah, we’ve gotta do that every now and then.” I snapped out of my daze to look over at what he was doing. He was now paying no attention to me, as if I had only existed to him for a second. So wrapped up in the things that were happening on his phone. I didn’t mind it, since it’s not like someone like him would do anything otherwise. I sat there in admiring him in a neutral state. Observing the little things that he did when he thought no one was watching. The occasional eye twitch when you try to keep still and focus, the little smirk when something amusing scrolls by, the tapping of the leg when your mind was absent and the body was free to do what it wanted. I appreciated all of it, and he didn’t even know.
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