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Beautiful Silences
There she was, my undoing.
I gazed at her shamelessly as she examined the book cover. Her chestnut hair was tied up in a bun but most of the strands still escaped free from the sides. She smiles, I thought she was aware of my immodest ogling but it seemed genuine. She was standing outside the shop and I could see her through the glass pane from inside. She was attractive. I felt like talking to her which made me repel away from her completely. She says something to the hawker and then scowls when the lady replies. I look away and pretend to go through the range of aviators in front of me. When I look back she was gone. An uneasy feeling fills my stomach and before I even know it, I was out of the shop, walking towards the hawker. I read the book cover she was looking at, 'Kiss Of Fate', it said.
"Um, excuse me, are you planning to buy that?" I turn and see her standing at my back, she looked alarmed. I stare at her unable to utter something and for some unknown reason, my ears were burning. "Uh...No, I was just looking." I manage. Her...