They left the car at parking nearby and walked. They walked fast, like it was the custom in New York. They soon arrived to Times Square. The place was never empty and at eight in the morning, it was full of stressed businessmen going to the office, mothers taking their children to kindergarten and tired teenagers that rushed through the crowd, late for school. Sophie and Charlie stopped just to contemplate the magnificent square and watch the recent news on the big screen in front of them. Sophie remembered a day she stood at the exact spot. She was on the phone with Robert Beal and researching about a kiss. She was younger then and more afraid. Just an ordinary fact-checker, too scared to write. Well, fate had changed that, thought she and her mouth formed into a wide smile. Charlie turned away from the crowd and looked at her with one eyebrow raised.
" What are you smiling at? I hope it is not the attractive man over there," mentioning a man that was staring at Sophie a few meters away.
" No, not him. I was thinking of a memory. You know I told about the kiss in Times Square that I researched about? Well, I stood exactly here that day. Strange coincidence, don't you think?
" Wow that is even extraordinary. I couldn't think that possible." His attention was lost when he saw two beautiful women walking by. Sophie frowned and waved her hand in front of his face, to remind him that he was supposed to look at her. He gave her a Hollywood smile and she laughed, taking him in for a kiss.
" Your little rat. I wonder why I married you."
"Probably because I am the handsomest and most irresistible man you have ever seen?" suggested Charlie with a satisfied look on his face.
"That was not why." She laughed when she saw him frown. "Okay, that was why."
"I knew it. Come, let's continue."
They walked away from Times Square and wandered about. They looked at the multitude of stores that decorated the streets and smiled at each other goofily, too happy to be otherwise. They arrived to Central Park and sat down on a bench.
Sophie took off her high heels and laid her naked feet on Charlie's lap. She smiled when he started to caress them, enjoying the timeless legs that made him mad of love.
"Sophie?"
"Yes Charlie?"
He hesitated one moment. He did not know how to say this without hurting her too much. She would be devastated but he knew she would accept it in the end. He just had to say it.
Sorry for the cliff-hanger there. It is just so exciting to keep the continuation hidden. And you won't find it yet because the end is in my head.