The remainder of the day passed uneventfully. For the most part I merely sat at my desk and allowed my feelings to ruminate. My chest felt full, as though I had a pressure on my heart. It was almost a painful feeling, but I found it to be pleasant because of its source.
When the night had fallen and a crescent moon had risen into the sky I stepped outside to consider the heavens for a bit. I doubted that it would present any useful information to me. Horoscopes and other zodiac methods would be useless because though I knew she was a Taurus I knew not what my own sign was, having long ago deemed my birthday was useless information. Probably a Capricorn, but maybe an Aries or a Scorpio? My personality had been fairly various over the years. I wondered vaguely if any of the Zodiacs actually applied to magical beings.
I walked slowly down to the lighthouse, enjoying the slight breeze blowing through the warm summer air. I preferred viewing the stars in the winter but the sky looking nice tonight as well. Just then I remembered that a comet was going to pass overhead tonight, and a fairly big one too. I had an idea, a big important one. One that just might make an impression on Angela. I spun around and took off back across the bridge and around the harbor, my boots snapping loudly against the stone. I kicked up dust as I ran down the path to Angela's farmhouse, running alongside her field in full bloom, and stopped to catch my breath on her porch. It was only a few moments before I lifted my hand and rapped loudly on her door, hoping that I wasn't interrupting anything and taking the bright lights shining from curtained windows as a sign that she was still awake.
Practically holding my breath, I waited. Despite my long life my patience wasn't doing me much good in this situation, a few seconds was far too long for me to wait when I was so anxious. Finally she opened the door. She looked tired, but she gave me a wide smile and stepped aside to allow me into her home. I shook my head and smiled back, extending a hand behind me as a gesture for her to come out. "I've got something special to share with you. We don't have too much time."
"Oh, what's that?" She asked in a tentative voice, stepping onto the porch and shutting the door behind herself. I looked into her face and realized then that her hair was damp and she smelled slightly of something floral, probably her shampoo. It was nice, different from the earthy scents that followed her after her work, though those were also pleasant.
"It's still a little bit of a secret. You'll see in a moment." I smiled and held out my hand. Luckily, she took it. I led her slowly out into the empty field behind her house and beside the river pond and pointed at the dark horizon, knowing in mere moments the comet would come blazing into view. The stars did not let me down.
Just as Angela was about to open her mouth to ask what exactly to be looking for the comet became visible, a bright head and a bluish green tail streaking through the sky rather quickly, it would come nearly directly over us. She sighed in what I hoped was a contented way and I caught her quiet whisper of "It's beautiful". I squeezed her hand a little tighter and smiled into the sky, but I doubt that she noticed.
"Watch this!" I took my hand from hers then and raised my hands to the sky. I slowly murmured an incantation, focusing carefully, and watched as first my hands and then the sky lit up just a little bit. I felt what I could only think of as a tear in the cosmos and pulled just a little bit with spell, temporarily opening up the tiniest of holes just before the comet passed directly overhead.
Stardust from the tail of the comet came drifting down in a flurry not too much unlike snow, though a little lighter. Angela looked into the fine dust as it fell, I could tell she was holding her breath. I smiled at the vision she was as the dust touched down, landing all over her eyelashes and frosting her hair, it all lit up in the moonlight. She was an understated sort of beautiful, a type of average that would be stunning if she put in some effort. But I thought that perhaps I preferred her natural like this, as an earthy girl in touch with herself and the world.
The stardust continued to sift down for a little while, drifting and dancing in the moonlight as it coated us and our little field. I muttered the end of the spell to lace closed the tiny rip in the cosmos and smiled big at Angela. She giggled, nearly uncontrollably, and shook some of the glittering powder out of her spiky hair. I reached out a hand and caught her face in it, then used my thumb to rub a little bit of her cheek clean. The stardust was so smooth, almost like a coating of baby powder. She grinned at my and then nearly tackled me in a hug, throwing her arms around my waist. I smiled over her head and closed my arms around her shoulders.
I don't know that I've ever felt happier than I did in that moment. I was holding girl that I'd never thought I'd meet after I ran to her house in the middle of the night to open the cosmos and shower her in stardust. She was a bit like stardust herself, I thought. Just a little magical and beautiful despite the initially plain appearance, and she also wasn't the easiest thing to get without a bit of coincidence and effort.
I squeezed her a little tighter and then pulled back. She released her hold on me and I led her back to the porch and bid her farewell. "I've ruined the effects of your shower. I hope I haven't entirely ruined your evening though."
"Not at all." She replied in a sort of bubbly voice. "Far improved it I would say."
"Very good. Well, goodnight." I said, then bowed deeply to her. I raised my head at the sound of her slight giggle, and smirked at the sight of her blush. Perhaps bowing had gone out of style in courtship over the more recent years?
"Goodnight, Wizard." She said and before I had time to process it she had jumped in to give me a kiss on the cheek again. I nearly forgot myself but as I saw her turn back to her door an idea caught hold of me. I grabbed her hand and pulled her back around to give her a kiss on the cheek as well.
"Sweet dreams." I turned and walked away then, without looking back. Truthfully, I was a little afraid to see what her reaction was. The sound of her door shutting didn't come until I'd almost made it the edge of her property. I allowed myself to smile a little wider then. If everything went my way this spontaneous visit had a made a good impression on Angela. Hopefully it had shown her I meant to be a little more than an exciting and devoted friend. I walked home feeling a little lighter than I had originally left it, though the full feeling in my chest had never really left.
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