The first time Elias saw her, she was nothing more than a flash of beauty and a flicker of motion, vanishing through the crowd in the busy city before he could even form a word. Like a dream slipping from the edges of waking, she was gone before he could hold onto the moment.
The second time, years later, she stood on a train platform waiting for a train traveling in the opposite direction. Her skin kissed by the sun as it set, her gaze distant—lost in thoughts he would never know. He took a step forward to get a closer look, his heart racing, their trains arrived, the doors slid shut. Through the glass, their eyes met for the briefest heartbeat and a shared smile—then the train pulled away, carrying her into the distance once more.
Again and again, fate wove them together only to unravel them just as quickly. Missed chances. Cruel timing. Moments that slipped through his fingers like grains of sand.
But some connections have been established before our time, and no force—not time, not circumstance, could keep them apart forever.
A few months pass and Elias stands at the door of the home of a college friend for Friendsgiving dinner. His friend opens the door and they embrace and exchange their secret handshake. Elias stands still, in awe as she stands when she sees him from across the room. The woman he had been searching for stood before him with recognition in her eyes.
Recognition flares like wildfire, bright and undeniable. In an instant, every missed chance becomes irrelevant, every twist of fate nothing more than a prelude to this. To now.
The connection is palpable. His friend chuckles and invites him to come in and introduces Elias to the mystery woman. She exhales his name as if she has carried it all along, waiting for this moment to set it free.
And when Elias reaches for her, there is no force in existence that could pull them apart.
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