DAY FIFTY-ONE
FEBRUARY 20TH 2016

PROMPT: "Couple" [one day]

It would have been difficult to say - that was, if either of them got up the nerve to do anything of the sort in private - which one of them had been the most affected by their classmates giving them the title of best couple in the yearbook.

On the one hand, there was Maya, left to confront aloud - that is knowingly, in her mind, though still silent to the world - what she had worked tirelessly to ignore and pack into the furthest recesses of her mind where it couldn't harm her or anyone else.

And on the other, there was Lucas, who would sit in his room, staring at the page in his yearbook, wondering how it was that he hadn't understood how it was that they behaved around one another.

If they had spoken, they might have found that all of their uncertainties boiled down to roughly the same questions: what did this mean? Was it just people's imaginations, or was there really something there? Scarier still were the questions in the back, like... Did the other feel something, did they themselves, enough to risk doing something about it? If they had gotten up the nerve to speak to one another, maybe they could have pieced it together, but then who knew? What if they tried and only made matters worse? That was the greatest risk of all.


See you tomorrow! - mooners