Glance
A momentary glance of no particular significance leading to an instant frozen in forever. Electricity meeting in the air as reflected light from their eyes. Her wandering eyes meeting his with a violent crash that shatters all awareness of surroundings. Everyone walks around, yells, talks, and takes their seats as normal but in that split second of visual contact a pause is pressed. A conversation of no words passes unseen between them. He has not looked at her for so long and she suddenly knows why. One accidental glance at her and she sees everything with a frightening intensity.
In that second she sees every path, every decision and every could-have-been.
In a different time, a different reality, maybe.
A reality where she had not met Stefan first.
In his eyes she sees the longing he's trying to let die and she feels her insides lurch in response.
A longing too much indulged.
Then he slips his eyes away as though never engaged and adds to the conversation. The spell broken she turns back to her companions, shaken and left with a bitter sweetness resonating inside.